Harvey Grant was an instructor at Bel Air University; he liked teaching and he was good at it. He was married to Christine, a beautiful, sophisticated girl whom he loved deeply. Harvey Grant was also going crazy. He was suddenly acting like a madm...
Elaine Morse was a lovely young woman married to a successful businessman her own age. She had come to Dr. Marcus Welby because she thought she might be pregnant. Dr. Welby made tests and found that she was right. Tearfully she explained that she ...
Dr. Marcus Welby was visiting a friend’s ranch on the coast above Los Angeles when suddenly he spotted smoke rising in the fields. The weather was dry -- dangerous fire weather in Southern California. Despite an immediate call to the Forestry Servi...
A romance novel without an end encourages readers to submit an ending that would determine which of her various suitors--the star quarterback, the bodyguard, or the university president--Melissa should select for her husband....
Dime Mystery Magazine, April 1948A VISITOR FOR THE DEADby Bruce Cassiday“Come into the mausoleum, Nathan…Della is there…I hope she’s dead…”1600 Words...
Sometimes it’s a very short flight indeed for a stool-pigeon. One slip of the lip and he’s a dead bird. Bonding investigator Cash Madigan found that out when he went to Gotham, Missouri, to track down Royal Blaine, an informer who had tip...
It began like a game of drop-the-hanky. It ended with Cash Madigan fighting his way out of the arms of his brother Buzz’s lovely widow — and out of the hot seat for his brother’s murder, who had been found brutally murdered in Madig...
At first, skip tracer Johnny Midas’ mission to Mockridge was as familiar as an old tune—to find a missing bank clerk. But swiftly this changed—the search had a jazz beat to it now. The only friend the bank teller had claimed in town...
Two cases from 'The Ripperman Files'The Floater — The man’s skull had been beaten in. He was found floating in Coldwater River by an immigrant German fishing in the stream. The only clues to his identity were a laundry mark on his shirt a...
His fellow detectives on the Honolulu force didn’t like Egan. They couldn’t stomach his sick brutality, the unholy glee with which he trapped and roughed-up mugging suspects and other victims for his sadistic fists. But Egan had a reason ...
I.C.E., International Combine of Entrepreneurs (commonly called International Combine for Evil), was a recent outgrowth of the Cold War. They profited monetarily from friction between East and West, recruiting agents from among the castaways of profe...