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Operation Fireball

A tough, non-stop tale of five strangers, two million bucks, one lusty redhead, and no holds barred

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Catch A Tiger

In A Small California Town, Death, Like A Tiger, Crouched To Spring

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Man Drowning

Blind Desire Drove Him To Violence And Murder

Covers like this are why I only post large, clear scans. There is so much going on here that you would miss in a thumbnail.

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Strangers In The Dark (Original Title: Pushover)

They Were Both Tough And Wise… And Mighty Bad For Each Other!

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They were a pair, those two! —a gorgeous blonde, who was no better than she had to be, and a guy who liked her just the way she was…

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Kill Me In Yokohama

Burns Bannion — blood brother to Shell Scott and Mike Hammer

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Burns Bannion is back – but things haven’t changed a bit. Private-eye by accident, he still keeps running into his two favorite pastimes – gorgeous girls and deadly killers…

The girls were all Bannion dreamed they would be, but the killers were bloodier than Bannion could have imagined. So he had to use an equally bloody weapon against them: KARATE: the ancient and terrible defensive art of the Japanese – in which the human hand can be as deadly as the sharpest axe – a bloody sport which makes Judo look like a kid’s game…

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Syndicate Girl

She was as tough as the hoods she worked with — until she met a man who made her feel like a woman

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Thunder on the Buckhorn

Hard Men… Bare Knuckles… Blazing Guns!

Sounds like a gay porno to me, but whatever floats your boat.

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Buckskin Man

One man against the ruthless power of the Santa Fe trade empire

So, it’s like The Phantom Menace in the Old West.

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Pick-up Girl

She Liked Her Men Tough

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Kidnapped Blondes On Love Slave Highway

Looks like the color didn’t hold up so well on this painting.

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Lemons Never Lie

Grofield never wanted to get involved with Myers’ crazy plan to heist a brewery payroll—but now he’s involved, whether he likes it or not…

When he’s not carrying out heists with his friend Parker, Alan Grofield runs a small theater in Indiana. But putting on shows costs money and jobs have been thin lately—which is why Grofield agreed to fly to Las Vegas to hear Andrew Myers’ plan to knock over a brewery in upstate New York. Unfortunately, Myers’ plan is insane—so Grofield walks out on him. But Myers isn’t a man you walk out on, and his retribution culminates in an act of unforgivable brutality. That’s when Grofield decides to show him what a disciple of Parker is capable of…

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She Played The Odds — And Lost!

The client had a perfect alibi for the night Maureen Auburn disappeared — but nothing made private eye Donald Lam suspicious like a perfect alibi.

When the beautiful girlfriend of a notorious gangster vanishes, it’s up to P.I. Donald Lam to get to the bottom of her disappearance — and of a mining scam, an illegal casino operation, a double homicide, and an opportunity for an enterprising private eye to make a small fortune…if he can just stay alive long enough to cash in!

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Hardman (1967)

His law was whip, fist and pistol butt. Thugs like him died in gas chambers or rotted in jail cells. His name was — Hardman

Presumably, this novel is unrelated to the Hardman series

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Candy

The Girl Who Would Stop At Nothing For Thrills
Candy, the sexpot — Candy, the voluptuous — Candy, with a cashbox for a heart

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“Candy. You can’t mean it,” Jeff said.
“But I do, Jeff.”
“You can’t stop loving me just like that. I’ve given up everything for you. My wife. My family. My job….”
“Tough.”
“Candy. Is there… someone else?”
“Yes.”
“Who is he?”
“It’s not a ‘he’, Jeff.”

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Case of the Brunette Bombshell (Original Title: Rich Man… Dead Man)

Sometimes even a tough cop can’t keep his badge clean—when he falls for a dame like Stella

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