The Top Five Of 2019

The Top Five Of 2019

The top 5 post of this past year

##1 Final Notice by Jonathan Valin

#2 The Janitors Daughter by Amy Harris

#3  Detective Stories 

#4  The Lineup by Frank Kane 

#5 Barye's Babe #8

See you next year

Dead On The Level by Helen Nielsen

The night before was a beaut......But the morning after was murder!

Cover by Carl Bobertz

A gorgeous girl makes an incredible proposal, and ends when a would be fall guy unearths some low schemes in high society. While solving  a murder to save his own skin. The action is smooth, tough and colorful all the way......

The Film

Murder By Proxy (1954)

Cast

Dana Clark

Belinda Lee

Printing History

Written by Helen Nielsen (1918-2002)

Dell Publishing Company

#747

1951

Seductive Nymph by Jerry M Goff, Jr

"I had met a few hot-blooded beauties before, but never a nudist nympho!"

"I like to tease you...for a little while. Understand? I really like it. It's more fun!"

Printing History

Written by Jerry M Goff, Jr

Merit Books 

#609

1962

Merry Christmas 2019

Merry Christmas 2019

Wishing you love, our warmest Christmas wishes and glad tiding in our family to yours. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

Murder For Christmas by Francis Duncan

Murder For Christmas by Francis Duncan

A classic mystery for the festive season: mulled wine, mince pies...and murder.

Mordecai Tremaine, former tobacconist and perennial lover of romance novels, has been invited to spend Christmas in the sleepy village of Sherbroome at the country retreat of one Benedict Grame.

Arriving on Christmas Eve, he finds that the revelries are in full flow - but so too are tensions amongst the assortment of guests.

Midnight strikes and the party-goers discover that it's not just presents nestling under the tree...there's a dead body too. A dead body that bears a striking resemblance to Father Christmas.

With the snow falling and the suspicions flying, it's up to Mordecai to sniff out the culprit - and prevent someone else from getting murder for Christmas.

Printing History

Written by William Walter Frank Underhill (1914-1988)

1949 by John Lang

The Obituary Club by Hugh Pentecost

Where does a man with a face known to every movie fan in America go to hide from a killer?

Cover by Robert Maguire

"The best gag of my life is coming up the day after I die."

Charles Seely was one of the greatest comic talents of our age. The list ran: Chaplin, Fields, Seely.

Charley had spent his life perpetrating cruel, giant-size practical jokes on the famous. His final one, included in his will, was a sample of his monstrous sense of humor.

There were seven people named in the will. All big names in show business, all the public butt of Charley's last horrible joke.

Columnist Grant Simon tagged the group, "The Obituary Club." It was a fitting title, for as the will was set up, only after the first of the seven died, would one of the remaining six become Charley's heir.

It was a waiting game; someone had to kick the bucket to set up the payoff.

But the payoff came when Hollywood's biggest star became a target for a killer who wanted to turn the macabre lottery into cold-blooded murder.

Printing History

Written by Judson Philips (1903-1989)

Dodd, Meade & Company

1958

Dell Publishing Co

D375

August 1960

Racket Broads by Del Rio

A breathtaking shocker about the twisted hungers of over erotic women forced to enjoy the perversions of their hoodlum lovers!!!

Sophie: Became a willing passion slave when she saw the photographs of herself in bed with two....

Gwen: It was more than her voluptuous body that made Danny Cardone risk $500 to spend one evening with her!

Michelle: Wife of an ex-racket boss, she became the passion pawn of his youthful replacement!

Rita: Her upbringing in high society only made her bored with the usual bedtime play!

Printing History

Written by Del Rio

Camerart Publishing Co, Inc

Merit Mook

7M800

1964

The Case Of The Sleepwalker's Niece by Erle Stanley Gardner

Perry Mason Mystery #8

THE SLEEPWALKER'S MURDER

Pretty Edna Hammer asked Perry Mason an odd question: "Is a person who sleepwalks criminally responsible for what he does?" Edna claimed she was worried about her sleepwalking uncle, Peter Kent. Several nights later, a white-robed figure silently glided across the patio of the Kent home. The moonlight glinted on a deadly carving knife clutched in the sleepwalker's hand. Before dawn, a man lay stabbed to death. Later, the bloodstained knife appeared under Peter Kent's pillow. 

The evidence was to pat for Perry Mason. He suspected the knife had been purposely planted. Was Peter Kent's pretty little niece, Edna, trying to frame her uncle? Who killed Philip Rease? Peter Kent was known to be a sleepwalker and a bloodstained knife was found under his pillow. There were people who would like to see Peter Kent out of the way, but would they frame him for murder? And would that explain the reason for Rease's death? It was another case full of traps for Perry Mason.

Printing History

Written by Erle Stanley Gardner (1889-1970)

William Morrow 

March 1936

Pocket Books

#35040

November 1944

April 1965