Smashing Detective Stories

Smashing Detective 

Editor Robert W. Lowndes

Contents

The Wrong Killer · William F. Schwartz

Death of a Pampered Pigeon  · Dennis Wiegand

The Squeeze · Matt Christopher

Doublecross Time · Saul Anthony

Death Is Invisible · Jim Harmon

The Big Squawk · Thomas Thursday

The Face of Nemesis · Reuben Jenner

Columbia Publications, Inc

Volume 5 #1

July 1956

Kill Me In Yoshiwara by Earl Norman

Burns Bannion On The Loose In The Vice Corner Of Tokyo

 

Burns Bannion In Yoshiwara

Burns Bannion is back on another assignment: the fleshpots of Yoshiwara, the age old home of prostitution in the middle of Tokyo........The young and voluptuous Hiroko puts Bannion on the tracks of her older sister, who has been savagely beaten to death by Bannion's own weapon.

Karate, the deadly method of Japanese fighting in which the human hand can be as lethal as a knife blade. Before he's finished in Yoshiwara, Bannion has more corpses lying around than one would care to count.

Printing History

Written by Norman Thompson (1915-2000)

Berkley Medallion Books 

February 1961

Nice Fillies Finish Last by Brett Halliday

Mike Shayne, the fastest moving private eye of all, 

bets his life he can beat a murderous mastermind to the finish lane.

Daily Double

The first luscious lady Mike Shayne ran into was a sweet young thing named Win who had the tiniest bikinis, the fewest of inhibitions, and the roughest, toughest of husbands. The second siren who put herself in his path was a blonde beauty named Claire, who had more money than morals, and whose loving husband gave her free rein. The big, red headed detective would have liked to spend more time with both of them, but he was in a race against death, on a track littered with corpses, and a vicious killer held the whip hand.......

Printing History

Written by Robert Tarrell

Dell Publishing Company

#6361

February 1966

 1970

December 1976

Bonus Cover

Robert McGinnis Cover

The Crimson In The Purple by Holly Roth

A Beautiful Victim In A Mansion Of Murder

Cover by Robert Maguire

Fear

The brakes on her cr failed, almost catapulting her to death. Yet two hours later a mechanic could fin nothing wrong with them. The agonies of  "ptomaine" gripped her three times in eight days. Yet the rest of her family was unaffected by the same food. And twice someone had come into her room in the dead of night. They had not attacked, not spoken. They had just stood there, breathing. It could have been  meant that someone wanted to murder her. Or she could have imagined it all.....

But that would mean she was going mad.

Printing History

Written by Holly Roth (1916-1964)

1959 

by Simon and Schuster, Inc

1959

by Pyramid Books

G372

Hell's Angels by Hank Janson

Her life was a paradise of sex and drugs, but she lied one hell of a death

Cover by Robert Maguire

There's really nothing wrong with carrying a lady's suitcase, except when the "lady" is playing one for a sucker and the suitcase is loaded with sweet dreams for ten thousand junkies. But that's exactly what happens when Hank Janson's very chivalrous instincts backfire and a couple of casual dates explode into a deadly international affair.

Printing History

Written by Stephen D Frances (1917-1989)

The New International Library, Inc

Gold Star Books

IL7-16

1964

Amazing Stories June 1946

Amazing Stories

Arnold Kohn

Contents

Luder Valley

by Richard S Shaver (1907-1975)

Agharti

by Heinrich Hauser (1901-1955)

The Brothers Shenanigan 

by David V. Reed (1914-1994)

To Whom It May Concern

 by Millicent Holmberg

Printing History

June 1946

Volume 20 No 3

This Kill Is Mine by Dean Evans

 This Kill Is Mine

Cover by Oliver Brabbins

If A Body Meets a Body....!

When you hire out to a crooked million, you can expect your pay in mayhem! But there were compensations, Arnold Weir figured. A couple prime blondes, a coupe prime emeralds...And what did he have to lose, except somebody else's life? 

Of course, the thing he could not lose produced all the trouble! Like  the cop named John Doe. The homicide trail leading straight to his own door. The girls, and the goons, and the weirdest murderer ever to stalk the city.....

A Kill-Crazy Corpse!

Printing History

Written by Dean Evans

Abelard-Schuman, Inc

1955

Graphics Publishing Company

Graphic Books

#131

1956

 

Trivia

Original title was

No Slight Whisper

The Underground Cities Contract by Philip Atlee

Joe Gall Tracks Down Double-Dealing Turkish Terrorists

There was a large sealed envelope awaiting for Joe. Just when I need, he thought. Another contract. Another errand for the murderous butcher's boy.

But that's the way it went for Joe Gall, top secret nullifier, the governments ace hit man and blue ribbon executioner. Joe was tired of playing the bad Good Guy. But he was so good at being bad, or vice versa, they wouldn't let him cop out. Which is why the very dirty and dangerous job of liberating three American agents captured by Turkish terrorists became Joe Gall's baby. Bastard might be more accurate. Because nothing about this deal was legitimate. Except Joe. He was the real thing.

Printing History

Written by James Atlee Phillips (1915-1991)

Fawcett Gold Medal

M2925

February 1974