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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.

The Harbor of Death – Strange things are happening at the port. Fear has become part of the longshoremen’s daily routine. ‘Accidents’ have become frequent. Dan Fowler of the FBI goes undercover to get to the bottom of it.

The Curse of Phari – The looting of the treasure of a mummified ruler of a long dead Egypt, brought strange and dramatic adventures to a certain young man and others in modern London.

No Good From a Corpse – Laurel Dane was no angel. She’d changed men as often as she’d changed her hair color, and there was plenty in her past she’d like to forget. But no one deserved to be beaten to death.

Phony Shakedown – four stories from the casebook of Dan Turner. Turner was a hard-boiled gumshoe who worked the mean streets and back lots of the film studios of Hollywood, encountering murderers, blackmailers, greedy producers, seductive starlets, desperate has-beens and immoral grifters.

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

Sand In The Snow – When attorney Jim Daniels takes a mid-winter vacation to Southern California to placate his wife, he steps into a nightmare of murder and a years-old secret of fraud and corruption.

Cocktails or Corpses? – Five stories of murder, betrayal, attempted murder, blackmail and setups. And a lot of thoroughly bad people.

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