Murder Times Ten — Robert James Warner

There are ten murder puzzle stories in this story collection Jerry Pickle a super sleuth private detective solves most of them with the help of Billy Pearl a detective on the Long Beach California Police Department The two men make friendly bets to find out who can solve the murders first They aren t being disrespectful it s a way of keeping sane in a kill crazy world These murder stories are puzzle stories They are short fast and baffling Jerry Pickle is vitally interested in sending killers to their deaths but his first interest after that is the murder puzzle itself He s good at it and he usually wins the bets he makes with Billy Pearl sending a murderer to h o h his or her death Jerry and Billy believe strongly in the death penalty because they have seen so many people brutally and senselessly murdered Remember the number of people murdered by executed killers is zero The number of people murdered by paroled killers is in the thousands and the number is growing