Beyond Broken - 8 Spicy Tales! — Robert Leslie Bellem

PERIL PRESS presents:



Spicy Detective Stories, November 1935

Dan Turner Hollywood Detective

BEYOND JUSTICE

by Robert Leslie Bellem

Dan Turner judges a beauty contest -- and things happen! Was the girl's murder an act of vengeance -- or a dead man's legacy to love?

5700 Words



Dan Turner -- Hollywood Detective, December, 1942

BROKEN MELODY

by Robert Leslie Bellem

Nothing scalds Dan Turner so much as a threatening note. When there's geetus in a case, and when there's a little songbird like Chiquita in the picture, nobody's going to tell Dan to layoff, and get away with it!

5100 Words



Dan Turner--Hollywood Detective, January 1942

MILLION BUCK SNATCH

by Robert Leslie Bellem

Guns roared in Chinatown. The police took it calmly. “Another tong war,” they said. But Hollywood's super-sleuth Dan Turner was always a doubter. Wouldn't it seem more reasonable that somebody had deliberately shot at the girl to keep her from tipping anyone off about the kidnapping?

5600 Words



Dan Turner -- Hollywood Detective, December 1942

DAUGHTER OF MURDER

by Robert Leslie Bellem

There are some things a daughter ought to know about her own mother -- including how she died. Dan had some doubts about both would-be heiresses, but no doubt about which one wanted to kill him!

5400 Words



Spicy Detective, October 1935

Dan Turner Hollywood Detective

DEATH'S BRIGHT HALO

by Robert Leslie Bellem

Those necklaces were as effective as a headman's axe. To pierce their secret Dan Turner finds his way into the house of missing girls.

6200 Words



Spicy Detective, September 1936

FALLING STAR

by Robert Leslie Bellem

It was the dizziest looking diamond ring Dan Turner had ever seen -- and a girl was giving it to him to keep . . . handing him plenty of Hollywood trouble on a platter.

5500 Words



Dan Turner -- Hollywood Detective, February 1943

FEATURE SNATCH

by Robert Leslie Bellem

The idea was new -- and was tops! Whoever thought of stealing a million dollar production before it was released? And behind it was the ransom angle, and there was blackmail, too. Sometimes a detective likes to get his teeth into a case like that. It's like matching your wits with a genius.

6400 Words



Hollywood Detective, July 1945

THE DEAD DON'T DREAM

by Robert Leslie Bellem

What was the grim mystery in this disappearance of the fat gag writer's cousin? Hollywood's ace gumshoe, Dan Turner, had to meet and combat a heap of rough to-do before he neared finish.

8600 Words



This edition includes 30 images between story illustrations and pulp covers, plus a GALLERY of 10 Pulp covers from issues that feature stories by Robert Leslie Bellem and his aliases.