Day Keene: 12 books

A great detective pulp thriller by Day Keene.

On the day they gave the money away . . . the shopping center was a scene of confusion. A carnival had been set up nearby, and now a clown was throwing coins and bills to the eager crowd. Suddenly the gay scene changed to nightmare. A man clutched his stomach and dropped to the ground. A clown...

When Jim Charters drank, he talked too much. He claimed he could get Pearl Mantinover out of the death house because he could prove she was innocent. Shooting off his mouth this time led Jim into the tightest spot of his life . . . The next morning he woke up with $10,000 in his hand and voluptuously...

They showed me the bone fragments, and the charred diamond, and everything else - but I said to hell with their theory. Wilma was alive and I knew it. She had to be. The newspapers were yelling that I had murdered her!

Alive, she was worth a fortune . . . dead, she was a racketeer’s life insurance! Mona Ambler sat in the death house with a secret that not even a decent guy like Mike Duval could extract. Just home from Korea, Mike had to go about saving the gal the hard way. Maybe she really had shot and...

NO MAN COULD RESIST HER. BUT COULD ANY MAN EVER HAVE HER? After years at sea, Swede Nelson just wanted to find a nice girl and settle down. But what he found instead was Corliss Mason: beautiful, sensual, irresistible – and nothing but trouble.   It begins with a bar fight that lands...

He was as rare as a three-dollar bill . . . an honest man in the town of French Bayou - that was crowding Phenix City out of corruption’s first place. He was young Deputy Sheriff Andy Latour, with enough stern morality for someone to have set an assassin on his trail. But Latour dodged...

She had a plan . . . She would find the man that had done this terrible thing to her. She would get into her cream-colored Cadillac and drive until she came to Blairville - his town. She would look for his house and go there with the little pearl-handled revolver in her purse. Then,...

Cade Cain was back in town after two years in a Communist prison camp. His first night home he’d been beaten by a sadistic hoodlum and warned to get out of town fast. Now someone had planted a bullet-riddled corpse on his doorstep. Three people in town hated him - his greedy ex-wife, her...

The first time he killed a man Les Ferron was nervous and scared. But after that it got easier. He didn't even think about it after awhile--everything was automatic. But then Les met Amy Wayne--beautiful, innocent and rich. He couldn't kill her--and he couldn't make love to her either. All he could do was let her drive him crazy--

She lived fast...and she loved fast. Everyone who knew Helene Camden had a good reason for wanting her dead: Hal Camden - her husband, who knew she was two-timing him all over Florida Tom Ferris - who knew all the angles...and the curves Charlie Ames - who woke up in the dead woman’s...

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