Tag: Mystery

Death Is A Lovely Dame

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The Avenger returns — to track down the world’s most dangerous beauty

From the back:

She was the goddess of sex, the essence of the female savage, all the evil of the ages in one incredible beautiful woman. She was Mari Janezza — the most dangerous spy in the world. Only one man could stop her — Morgan Wayne, the ice-blonde tiger, the tireless pursuer, the angry avenger — to whom the government turned in desperation. So Morgan Wayne took up the search — knowing that when he found her he might himself fall victim to Mari Janezza’s terrible beauty

This makes 5,000 posts here at PulpCovers.com. It took almost exactly 13 months. I am not sure what that says about me.

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Killer’s Payoff (1962)

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From the back:

She did her best not to look voluptuous — but she couldn’t help it!

As the wife of a rich and politically ambitious man, Lucy Mencken wished to make an impression of quiet taste. But even in her loose-fitting suits she caused male temperatures to skyrocket. Years ago, when she had been a model, her extraordinary natural charms had been captured in a series of photographs, captured for all time and from all angles. Now she was paying a blackmailer $500 a month to keep those pictures unpublished. When he died — violently, in the city streets — Lucy thought her troubles would be buried with him. Then a strange man phoned her to say he was taking over — at a new price…

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The Pusher

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An 87th Precinct murder mystery revealing the inside story of the dope traffic

From the back:

His Sister Was On Heroin!

She sold her body to pay for it. She gave him his first shot as a joke. In a short time, he was on it steady. Then he began selling the stuff, mostly to other teen-agers. When the cops found him, he was sitting on a cot with an empty syringe at his feet — and a rope, suspended from the ceiling, knotted around his neck. It looked like suicide by hanging. But it wasn’t. The cause of death proved to he an overdose of heroin. And the fingerprints on the syringe were not his.

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