Watch out, Dixie — He’s headed your way… Harry Horne — hot on the trail of a cool million stolen dollars while warming more beds along the way than Don Juan ever dreamed of
Category: Covers
Camille
The Nursing Home Murder
Hatred and love avenged in the Operating Theater
The Cockeyed Corpse
Shell Scott Finds Murder On The Hoof
Drum Beat—Dominique
Chester Drum prowls the back alleys of Paris, where a lovely French spitfire rashly tries to beat him at his own deadly game
The Unfaithful Wife
Painted Post Range
No Highway
The Pearl and Burning Bright
Snaring Spokane’s Swearing Slayers
Also, Manhattan’s Murders In The Nude and Harvest Of Hate
Motel Marriage
The Tunnel Under The World
The Kubla Khan Caper
From the back:
Shell Scott, anyone?
This one starts when a man named Ormand Monaco decides to celebrate the opening of his posh hotel, in Palm Desert, the Kubla Khan, by staging a beauty contest and instead ends up with a couple of murders, Naturally he calls up you know who.
Now a private eye of sterner stuff might have gone about it in a more resolute fashion-clues, interrogations, finger-prints, all that jazz. But there were lovelies everywhere. There was expense account booze. There was a movie star named Misty Lombard, who was fully as delicious as her name, and there was also Lyssa Weldon, who, at the crucial moment of coming out of the shower to answer her door, dropped her towel not once but three times!
And this may be the only tale of deduction in which the protagonist solves the two baffling crimes while under the bed, waiting for the room to become less heavily populated!
The Long Sword
You’ve never met anyone quite like Eoghan — the red-thatched Irish giant who fought his was through 17th-century France with The Long Sword