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

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

The Sky Block by Steve Frazee

They were out to kill him before he could find the secret weapon that would destroy America

 

The secret weapon of an unseen enemy.....

Vencel had known the mountain when he was a boy. He had climbed it, hunter on it, fished in its streams. But when he cane back, he found the mountain a place of swiftly spilling blood and sudden death. Vencel turned into an angry, vengeful man, and he swore to flush out the terrifying menace of Blue Peak. But no man alone could fight the barbarous enemy hidden deep inside the mountain. So Vencel joined the team of army brass, FBI agents, and the nation's top scientists. All of them caught up in a desperate hunt for the most devastating weapon ever devised for the destruction of mankind.....

Robert Mcguire

Printing History

Written by Steve Frazee

Rinehart & Company, Inc

1953

Lion Library 

1954

LL-3

Pyramid Books

1958

PG13

Mayflower Dell

1964

More Double Trouble

More Double Trouble

Passion Playmate 

by Hank Janson

Cover by Robert Maguire

Printing History

Written by Stephen D Francis (1917-1989)

Gold Star Books IL7-18

February 1964

The Sad-Eyed Seductress

by Carter Brown

Cover by Robert McGinnis

  Printing History

Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985) 

New American Library

Signet Books

S2023

November 1961