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The Man Who Never Forgot – Ten Early Stories – Crime doesn’t pay, even if justice needs a little nudge from the fantastic now and then.

Outside the Law – Bruce Marvin had been found guilty of murder. Yet, condemned to the gallows, Bruce found a way out, urged by a lust for revenge against the man who had framed him.

Mission: Murder – Conspiracy, theft, murder and the love of a good woman are the key ingredients to these stories by John D. MacDonald

The Big Knockover – A slick, well-oiled gang hit San Francisco’s financial heart like a flash flood. They stormed the vaults of the city’s biggest banks, cleaned out every penny, then vanished into thin air—like they were never there at all.

Red Aces – Baffling murders on a bitter night with deep snowfall; the only clues are two red aces.

The Spectral Strangler (SAX,2) – Silent, horrible as the crushing coils of a serpent were those unseen fingers that blotted out men’s lives. A criminal of satanic proportions had risen —the “Black Master,” whose victims fell with livid, hideous faces and protruding tongues that seemed a ghastly mockery of the fate they had suffered. Along this terrible murder trail Secret Agent “X” gambled with the Dice of Death.

The Ambassador of Doom (SAX,4) – Secret weapons plans are stolen and behind the scenes, Washington D.C. is in a panic. Secret Agent “X” flies to Washington to hunt down the spies involved in this treason and bring them to justice.

The Glittering Coffins – On a manhunt for three escaped fugitives, Special Agent Dan Fowler coincidentally meets a very lovely former acquaintance who was once involved in an old case. Could she be at the center of this new mystery? Or was she different now?

Red Terror – The folly of taking a shortcut in an area he doesn’t know leads a man into a fight for his life between factions of the Russian Revolution.