Mystery

Kill Me In Yokohama

Burns Bannion — blood brother to Shell Scott and Mike Hammer

From the back:

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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The Flying Eye

Up To Their Necks In Murder

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Scales of Justice

He lay beside the gently whispering stream — murdered!

Is this book actually about a fish that was murdered by a cat? We can only assume that it is.

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A Graveyard to Let

The millionaire dove into the pool before their eyes.

Proving once and for all that millionaires can dive.

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Death Has A Small Voice

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The Healer

If Dr. Carter saved this woman’s life, her testimony might ruin him.

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Blondes Are Skin Deep

She Taunted A Dope-Fiend Killer!

He killed dope-fiends?

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Sinners and Shrouds

A brutal murder, a perfect frame-up!

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Reporter Sam Clay had awakened in a strange room with a hangover and a blonde. The hangover was ugly and the blonde was dead!
After a fast check Sam realized that he was the fall guy in a first-class frame-up. Then he heard the maid coming into the apartment. So he picked up a half-filled bottle of brandy and slipped into the closet.
Sam didn’t make a practice of knocking women unconscious with bottles. But this was an emergency. When the maid turned her back… bang! He let her have it.
As she sank to the floor with a moan, Sam wondered just how long he could stay one jump ahead of the cops!

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The Case of the Mythical Monkeys

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The D.A. Calls A Turn

She opened her lips and tried to speak but her knees buckled and she she fell into her husband’s arms.

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The Twenty-Year Death (Hardback)

She was beautiful. He was damned.

1931—The body found in the gutter in France led the police inspector to the dead man’s beautiful daughter—and to her hot-tempered American husband.

1941—A hardboiled private eye hired to keep a movie studio’s leading lady happy uncovers the truth behind the brutal slaying of a Hollywood starlet.

1951—A desperate man pursuing his last chance at redemption finds himself with blood on his hands and the police on his trail…

Three complete novels that, taken together, tell a single epic story, about an author whose life is shattered when violence and tragedy consume the people closest to him.

Rose McGowan posed for the cover painting

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