It’s been three years since PACKARD went off the air, and Sam Holt is still trying to disassociate himself from the character he had portrayed so successfully. But Zack Novak, his agent, had pushed him to take this assignment: Packard, Miss...
THE CLIENT: Blonde Edna Hammer, worried about her uncle, Peter Kent, who walked in his sleep with a carving knife in his hand. Is a man who walks in his sleep criminally responsible for what he does while sleepwalking? Edna wondered... So did Perry...
Set against the background of the City of Prague and the frontiers of the Iron Curtain, this is the third episode of the chequered career of Mark Girland, layabout Secret Agent whose weaknesses are money and women.
HAVE THIS ONE ON ME has the...
In his 24th and most intriguing appearance, the “Nameless Detective” finds himself involved in two intricate and emotional investigations. The first is intensely personal: the unexpected death of his estranged friend and former partner,...
Lest we give you an unfair advantage or send you off on a false scent, we tell you nothing about this story in advance except that the clues go back over three hundred years in one of the most ingenious deductive problems that ever confronted a...
Erle Stanley Gardner dons his other cap and comes up with superior fare for A. A. Fair fans.
Bertha Cool was purring like a kitten. A client had just hired the agency to investigate a suspected insurance swindle, and in Bertha’s glittering...
A Hell of a Finale to a Decade of Assassination
It began with John F. Kennedy in 1963. Then Malcolm X in 1965. Martin Luther King in April 1968. And then, in June of the same year, President Kennedy’s brother Robert fell before an assassin’s...
When Peter Barrington and Ben Bachetti come under threat while working at a film festival abroad, Teddy Fay is lured to the glittering city of Macau to resolve the problem. He’ll soon find that world of posh casinos, luxurious developments, and...
It’s the summer of 1949 and Steve “Snap” Malek has been assigned by his editors to cover the Chicago Railroad Fair. For three months this sprawling and lavish event will draw visitors to the showcase on the city’s beautiful Lakefront. Malek,...