Robert McGinnis

Murder Is My Business [Hard Case reprint]

Time hadn’t tamed her…and neither could he!

Ten years ago, private eye Mike Shayne did a job for one of the richest men in El Paso, digging up dirt on a boy courting the tycoon’s daughter. Now the daughter’s back, all grown up and dangerous. And so’s Shayne—but this time it’s to investigate murder…

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Losers Live Longer

Death Prowls The Streets Between C & D

The death of legendary private eye George Rowell looked like an accident—but searching for the truth behind it will put down-and-out East Village detective Payton Sherwood on the corpse-littered trail of a runaway investment scam artist, a drug-addicted reality TV star—and the bewitching beauty whose appearance set it all in motion…

With preliminary sketches!

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Stop This Man!

He Carried Death Everywhere He Went

SOME MEN AND SOME MERCHANDISE ARE JUST TOO HOT TO HANDLE All Tony Catell knew when he broke into the university science lab was that they had a gold ingot on the premises for some sort of experiment. So he stole it. What he didn’t know was that the experiment involved nuclear power—and that the gold was dangerously radioactive. Now the cops and the FBI are on Tony’s trail, Tony’s underworld contacts don’t want anything to do with him, and the loot he’s lugging around is leaving a swath of radiation sickness and death in his path. And since he’s just come from his third stint in prison, if they catch him, he’s not going back to jail—he’s going to the electric chair…

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Baby Moll

No man escapes the sins of his past.

Six years after quitting the Florida Mob, Peter Mallory is about to be dragged back in. Stalked by a vicious killer and losing his hold on power, Mallory’s old boss needs help—the kind of help only a man like Mallory can provide. But behind the walls of the fenced-in island compound he once called home, Mallory is about to find himself surrounded by beautiful women, by temptation, and by danger—and one wrong step could trigger a bloodbath…

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Kill Now, Pay Later [Hard Case reprint]

Why would a party girl make him a party to murder?

When Ben Gates took the job guarding the presents at a ritzy upper-class wedding, he thought it would be a simple assignment: stand around, look tough, and make sure none of the bridesmaids walk off with the jewelry.
But that was before someone slipped sleeping pills into Ben’s coffee and a bizarre robbery attempt left two people dead. Now Ben’s reputation is on the line—and if he doesn’t figure out which of three beautiful women is hiding a murderous secret, his life may be as well…

A reprint of this book, with a new cover by the same artist, Robert McGinnis.
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The Peddler

Tony Romero’s women offered paradise—for a price…
He Sold Their Bodies… And His Soul

In the cutthroat world of organized crime, Tony Romero was headed straight for the top. His territory: the brothels of San Francisco. But the path was littered with bodies and broken dreams—some of them his…

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The Last Quarry

The ruthless professional killer known as Quarry long ago disappeared into a well-earned retirement. But now a media magnate has lured the restless hitman into tackling one last lucrative assignment. The target is an unlikely one: Why, Quarry wonders, would anyone want a beautiful young librarian dead? And why in hell does he care?

As seen in the film ‘Shades of Noir’, apparently.

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The Girl with the Long Green Heart

She was every man’s dream—and one man’s nightmare.

Johnny Hayden and Doug Rance had a scheme to take real estate entrepreneur Wallace Gunderman for all he was worth. But they needed a girl on the inside to make it work. Enter Evelyn Stone: Gunderman’s secretary, his lover — and his worst enemy. Gunderman had promised to marry her, but never came through. Now she’s ready to make him pay…

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Plunder of the Sun [Hard Case reprint]

On the trail of the lost treasure of the Incas — with every fortune hunter in South America closing in!

Al Colby should never have agreed to smuggle the package from Chile to Peru. Now one man’s dead, two beautiful women have betrayed him, and a couple of gunmen are hot on his trail. All because of an ancient Quechua manuscript pointing to the hiding place of a priceless hoard of gold, lost for centuries. Now the race is on — by train, by plane, by motorboat and by mule — first to find the treasure and then to escape with it alive…

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Little Girl Lost

Miranda Sugarman was going to become a doctor. So how did she end up shot to death on the roof of New York’s seediest strip club?

Miranda Sugarman was supposed to be in the Midwest, working as an eye doctor. So how did she wind up shot to death on the roof of New York’s seediest strip club? It’s up to detective John Blake to uncover his ex-girlfriend’s secret life as a strip tease queen. But the deeper he digs, the darker the secrets he uncovers, until a shattering face-off in an East Village tenement changes his life forever..

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The Hang-up Kid

A sexy freak and a flipped-out hippie — Rick Halman’s guides on a trip into murder!

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The Sad-eyed Seductress [Vertical Cover]

One look at her and Danny Boyd knew — a blonde with her kind of eyes… would be murder!!!

A more traditional, vertical, cover. The awesomely horizontal version is here.

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Edit: Added the cover of Ready When You Are, C.B.! The autobiography of Alan Yates, alias Carter Brown, which reused the same cover image. via

Legacy Of A Spy / Calling Mr Callaghan / Nicht mein Bier (Not My Beer)

In his world no man or woman was to be trusted. For even the face of love could mask the shadow of sudden death.

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An outstanding story of murder, robbery and blackmail

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House of Sorcery

Meet Maxine — a hot-blooded tycoon with a perfumed proposition for Danny Boyd… a private eye who’ll do almost anything for the sweet smell of success.

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Requiem for a Blonde

Death comes uninvited to a showgirl’s reunion.

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