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Defense attorney Clarence Darrow Mort, an unkempt habitué of seedy bars, was known familiarly, if not affectionately, as "Corpus Delicti" Mort. A mainstay of the page of mid-1940s issues of Dime Detective magazine, Mort was yet another of the quirky characters which editor Ken White avidly placed in his hard-boiled pulp magazine. This collection contains the first half of the C.D. Mort stores, all by Julius Long: "C.D. for Corpus Delicti," "No Minimum for Murder," "Loaded for Murder," "Corpus Delicti de Luxe," "Mostly for Murder," and "Murder Under Foot."

Written by Peter Paige, one of Black Mask editor Fanny Ellsworth's finds after succeeding Joseph Shaw's tenure in that same role, Paige introduced the tough-as-nails detective Cash Wale and partner Sailor Duffy: a series worthy of the esteemed lineage of Black Mask magazine. Quickly plucked by Black Mask's rival, Dime Detective, the cases of Cash Wale were a mainstay of that magazine for the next decade. Never before in book form, this edition collects his first five cases: "Voodoo Frame," "The Corpse Promoter," "Lotta Had a Husband," "Wanted: Dead and Alive!," and "The Bullet From Nowhere." And it includes an all-new introduction by popular fiction authority John Wooley.

Brilliant, decisive, and hard-charging, Deputy Inspector Allhoff was the NYPD's ace detective until bullets from a mobster's machine gun robbed him of his legs, his career, and-in the opinion of an associate-his sanity. Yet Allhoff was too good a man to be put out to pasture, so New York's police commissioner found a way to keep him employed and refer to him such cases as the department couldn't or wouldn't handle. Confined to a wheelchair and operating from a seedy tenement flat, Allhoff is assisted by two cops: Battersly, the rookie patrolman whose brief moment of cowardice cost the inspector his legs, and Simmons, the bitter career cop who detests Allhoff but sticks with the embittered cripple to protect his own pension. Created by D.L. Champion, Inspector Allhoff denied most conventions of detective-pulp fiction. He could never be confused for one of Raymond Chandler's knights errant, trudging down those mean streets. Allhoff was no Rover Boy in trench coat and fedora. He was, in fact, a sadist and a psychopath. With 30 entries published between 1938 and 1946, the Allhoff series was among the most popular and long-lived to appear in Dime Detective, the prestigious crime pulp second only to the legendary Black Mask in its impact on the genre. Volume 3 collects the next seven stories: "You're the Crime in My Coffee," "Thanks for the Ration Card!," "The Profitable Corpse," "The Diplomatic Corpse," "Aaron Had a Rod," "The Day Nobody Died," and "Go Home and Die!"

Klaw, Murdoch, and Kerrigan-AKA the Suicide Squad-are the best the F.B.I. has to offer. Through nearly two dozen adventures, they battled spies, saboteurs, and even super-villains! This collection includes their next three stories: "The Suicide Squad in Corpse-Town" America's new air arm, the keystone in her vast defense program, tottered on the brink of destruction! ...Only three men-Kerrigan, Murdoch and Klaw-could prevent disaster, and that grim trio of Death's Volunteers was already living on borrowed, bartered time!"The Coffin Barricade" Eight young special agents went out to get the Undertaker, unknown Czar of the Corpse Bazaar. Eight came hack-in caskets and embalmed! So the Chief sent out the Suicide Squad-Murdoch, Kerrigan and Klaw. He figured they'd lived close enough to Death to be able to find the Undertaker-and put him six feet under!"The Tunnel Death Built" Who had the power, the resourcefulness, and the organization to steal thousands of priceless weapons from Uncle Sam, and ship them secretly abroad? The mystery was a job for the inimitable Suicide Squad-Kerrigan, Murdoch and Klaw. But they were already waging a private, unofficial battle against Nicodemus Largo-the most invulnerable crime-king of them all!

The desperate defenders of America went over the top against the vandal hordes of the Purple Emperor at the Continental Divide-only to find that the murder-maniac tyrant had protected his trenches with a living wall of America's youth hung upon crosses! It was then that Operator 5 had to find the way to strike at the enemy-and also rescue, from a blood-mad jaguar's cage, the girl who guarded a nation's secret!

It was a scarlet scorpion that reached Richard Wentworth, warning him that the Far East had crept forth from its Chinatown lair to raid New York! Victims were dying with a blood orchid in their hearts, and the Dragon screamed! With the police helpless, and Manhattan paralyzed, only Wentworth, in the Spider's somber guise, could hope to battle this Prince of Darkness who was looting a metropolis to found his evil Empire!

Sere, ghastly, the Severed Hand brought its grisly warning to New York. Its citizens must pay the extortioner's price or die, their living bodies slowly, agonizingly transformed into rigid mummies! The police were helpless, and only Richard Wentworth, in the Spider's weird garb, could wage battle-against the master murder-chemist who killed to corral a fortune!

New York was powerless in the hands of the Black Police and its maddened master-and when men dared oppose this red regime of the Underworld, they were struck down by a frightful plague! Even the Federal government, which had stepped in to hold a New Deal for Manhattan, found itself hopelessly defeated by intimidated ballots at the polls! In this moment of black despair, a single, desperate hope remained. For Richard Wentworth, as the Spider, had come down from his mountain retreat. With him was a gallant legion of honest fighting men who had sworn to take the law into their own hands and fight fire with fire!

The goose-stepping armies of the Purple Emperor massed in the passes of the Continental Divide, ready to swoop down upon the last defenders of American soil and drive them relentlessly westward into the sea. Grimly the besieged force, without guns or supplies, waited the attack they could not hope to hold off. Then Operator 5 played his last card-a daring dash into the Occupied Territory, where his life was worth a province to the man who could deliver him into the eager hands of a torture-mad emperor!

Klaw, Murdoch, and Kerrigan-AKA the Suicide Squad-are the best the F.B.I. has to offer. Through nearly two dozen adventures, they battled spies, saboteurs, and even super-villains! This collection includes their next three stories: "The Suicide Squad Pays Off" The Black Sheep of the F.B.I. turn a terror-ridden town upside down in a finish-fight with a gang that had decreed death for all G-men!"Coffins for the Suicide Squad" Boldly, New York's crime czar flung his challenge before the F.B.I., daring the full might of America's prize crime-fighting machine to a finish war! And Washington answered with the Suicide Squad-three grinning, fighting Volunteers of Death-to tame a murder empire!"The Suicide Squad-Dead or Alive!" Storm Troop gangsters took over the Hill City government. Blue-uniformed killers picked up the blood-purge hunt for Kerrigan, Murdoch, and Klaw-the three F.B.I. aces who had to capture a city just to rescue a red-headed girl!

Deeper and deeper New York had sunk in the grip of the Underworld monarch-until the law was licked at last! But in that moment of desperation, Richard Wentworth, as the Spider, resolved to fight the underworld with its own savage weapons. With New York's own police commissioner at his side, the Spider raised a fighting legion of honest men sworn to take the law into their own hands!

Klaw, Murdoch, and Kerrigan-AKA the Suicide Squad-are the best the F.B.I. has to offer. Through nearly two dozen adventures, they battled spies, saboteurs, and even super-villains! This collection includes their first three stories: "Mr. Zero and the F.B.I. Suicide Squad" One for all, and all for one-even in death-was the fighting creed of the three wildest, gun-swinging law aces of the F.B.I.!"The Suicide Squad Reports for Death" In all the Service they were the Law's toughest, shield-bearing crime fighters-and their job was to come through or die!"The Suicide Squad's Last Mile" The F.B.I.'s ace manhunt trio fight their way to hell and back-to end the rule of a crime-czar who had decreed death for all G-men and paid highest cash prices for second-hand corpses!

"Your souls are mine-when I speak, you will obey!" From the bowels of the shaking earth itself rose the satanic ultimatum that threatened to send America's greatest city up in flames! For the hordes of Hades, ruled by a devilish dictator, had turned New York into an Underground Kingdom of Crime, and helpless thousands died, strangling, when Hell's emperor loosed his slaying devil-dust! Reeking of sulphur and brimstone, it floated over Manhattan, leaving death in its wake. Only one man-Richard Wentworth, as the Spider-could hope to battle this Mephistopheles of Murder-who had blasted a city and whose satanic laughter was the signal that loosed the kill-maddened Legions of Lucifer!