False Negitive

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There’s no glamour in the grave.

Newspaperman Adam Jordan’s byline ran above two big articles in the early editions. One of them got him fired. The other landed him a job writing true crime pieces for Real Detective magazine. The story he’s working on now—a beauty contestant found strangled on an Atlantic City beach—is one that boardwalk power brokers would rather see covered up then covered. And if Adam keeps digging, he may find that he’s digging his own grave…

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The Four False Weapons (1st Printing)

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The Murder Of A Kept Woman

A strange case of a lovely wanton who was mistress to half the men in Paris

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One Lover Too Many

Rose Klonec had had more lovers than she could count. She took them for all they had, then left them. Ralph Douglas was the exception. He broke off their affair himself. And he did it to become engaged to wealthy Magda Toller. But he was by no means free of Rose. When her dead body turned up in his country villa he found himself under suspicion of murder. Four deadly weapons lay near Rose: a pistol, a razor, a box of poison pills and a stiletto. Then Henri Bencolin, famous French sleuth, upset the case by proving the weapons were false and that Magda herself was the daughter of a street walker and a murderer. But Rose’s killer was not unmasked until the night of a weird card game at the Corpses’ Club — a game no person alive had ever played!

Later republished by Berkeley. This complete book can be downloaded here

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My Enemy, The World

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A Story Of Lust, Intrigue And Revenge

Tortured by the riddle of his father’s strange death, rugged hard-bitten Phil Brancatti takes justice into his own violent hands. And his private vendetta uncovers a vicious pattern of greed and corruption, of wanton women and men who lived and loved outside the law in the teeming jungle of New York’s Greenwich Village.

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