Trump For Murder - 7 Spicy Tales! — Robert Leslie Bellem

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Speed Detective, December 1944

TRUMP FOR THE ACE

by Robert Leslie Bellem

It looked like a shakedown that could go on forever, with that ex-soldier movie star as the fall guy -- and then Dan Turner was bopped into a couple of falls himself for a splendid start to the hereafter

7700 Words



Dan Turner -- Hollywood Detective, April 1942

MURDER DONE TWICE

by Robert Leslie Bellem

Only a little while ago Dan had seen Kathy and she had been dead -- very, very dead. Now, alive as anyone possibly could be, she was sitting up, talking flirtatiously, positively amused at his amazement! What could it mean? Was his mind going?

I said, “Keep your voice down, and don't move! If you do, you'll wish you hadn't.”

6000 Words



Dan Turner -- Hollywood Detective, April 1942

DEATH ON LOCATION

by Robert Leslie Bellem

A camera never lies about a murder it has recorded. But a murderer can lie, and it's up to Dan to discover who knifed the heroine of the desert pic while she was bathing in her dressing tent.

She was deader than an election promise and I knew who had killed her -- I thought….

4900 Words



Dan Turner -- Hollywood Detective, April 1942

GAS-HOUSE STILL

by Robert Leslie Bellem

It is tough to have your client, a lovely movie star, killed almost before your eyes. . . . In trying to solve the murder mystery, Dan nearly co-starred in it as a corpse!

“I don't have very much money to pay your fee,” she said, “but…”

6300 Words



Dan Turner -- Hollywood Detective, April 1942

MURDER FOR FAME

by Robert Leslie Bellem

Her current boy-friend always bought champagne, yet it was gin that the red-haired doll spilled! Or was it water? Or vitriol? Or had she really spilled it anyway? Whatever the facts, it made copy for a movie gossip-columnist, and for Dan there were more murders to be solved.

I said, “You're sure you don't know who wrote the note, baby?”

5300 Words



Dan Turner -- Hollywood Detective, April 1942

A Dan Turner Story

DRUNK, DISORDERLY, AND DEAD

by Robert Leslie Bellem

She loved her husband, yet she was dertermined to create a public scandal. Dan Turner might not have minded so much being her partner in the scene except that her husband was his friend. There was no way for him to guess it was all leading to murder!

Chapter 2: Gone For A Ride

Chapter 3: Dragnet For Turner

Chapter 4: The Real Truth

Chapter 5: One More Dead Man

Chapter 6: A Lesson On Poison

Chapter 7: Antidote for Death

10,600 Words



Dan Turner -- Hollywood Detective, February 1943

HEADS YOU LOSE

by Robert Leslie Bellem

It looked like a gift from Santa Claus left on Dan's doorstep, but, unwrapped, it turned out to be as grisly a thing as anyone could hope not to find.

7100 Words



This edition includes the illustrations and pulp cover to all 7 stories.