Myron is summoned to Paris at the behest of an old lover, Therese. She is in unspecified trouble and needs his help. When he gets there, he discovers that her ex-husband has been murdered and she is the main suspect. The interesting thing is that...
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 trail of a runaway investment scam artist, a drug-addicted...
It’s the story of Ben Grace, a small-time chiseler in the rackets – not crooked, not straight, just in between – who, full of grievances, makes the most of his inside information as Sol Caspar’s chauffeur to aid and abet the opposing...
A son searches for the men who killed his mysterious father
Even at sixty-six, Gunnar Romstead was a tough old salt. It took several men to bring him down, and even after they’d bound his feet and hands he was still a threat....
Pursued by the police, a desperate man fights to stay free—and stay alive.
It’s raining hard when the man leaps off the train. He lands safely and creeps into town, praying he will find someplace to hide. It’s nearly daylight, and the...
Mardi Gras Mystery was originally written for The Shadow Magazine in September 1935 by Street & Smith Publications.
A curious mystery arrives on the last day of carnival. A masked woman hands Andrew an ebony locked box and a key. Who is this...
After Mike Hammer witnesses Wall Street superstar Vincent Colby getting clipped by a speeding red Ferrari, the shaken victim’s stockbroker father hires Hammer to find the driver. But the toughest private eye of them all soon is caught up in a...
MASTER OF DEATH was originally published in the September 15, 1933 of The Shadow Magazine.
Eric Veldon is the master of death. He collects fiendish methods of murder, stolen from their innocent inventors. Then he uses those diabolical methods of...
ME, HOOD! YOU, CORPSE!
The bodies were piling up like basketball points, but the name of this game was Mafia Murder. The punks, the junkies and the hookers were running scared, and the police weren’t far behind them. Then some smart cop got an...