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Title: Death of a Pusher

Author: Richard Deming

Narrator: L. J. Ganser

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-10-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

One surprise deserves another.

Think youll need any help, Sergeant? Lieutenant Wynn asked Matt Rudd.

I dont think so, sir, Rudd said.

Kuzniki is a dangerous, but he doesnt know Im here.

O.K., Wynn said. Im going to lunch.

With his back to the door, Rudd hadnt seen Kuzniki enter the hotel lobby. As he turned around, Kuznikis hand darted to a shoulder holster and he swept out a .38 automatic. Rudd froze in position, then slowly raised his hands.

You must be slowing down, Matt, Kuzniki said. First time Ive been able to take you.Itll be the last, too, Rudd said angrily.

Thats right, Matt - Ill see to that.

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Title: The Killer Is Mine

Author: Talmage Powell

Narrator: L. J. Ganser

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-10-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

The dirtiest killer of the year was the man private investigator Ed Rivers had to save from the chair. Wally Tulman, Florida socialite, had been convicted of molesting and murdering a young girl.

Tulmans lovely wife begged Rivers to take his case - to prove him innocent.

Rivers wouldnt touch it with a ten-foot pole.

Then somebody tapped him over the head, just to make sure.

Ed Rivers got the message. Somebody didnt want him on the case.

So he waded into it - with both fists flying.

Members Reviews:

The First Ed Rivers Novel Is A Terrific Read

âThe Killer Is Mineâ is the first of five Ed Rivers PI novels by Talmage Powell, one of the pulp writers from the Tampa Bay area in the fifties. Rivers is an ugly bear of a man who canât stand Floridaâs oppressive heat. He has a low-rent apartment and office in Tampaâs Ybor City. He was originally a New Jersey police officer who fell for a girl he thought was âeverything fine and decent in human form,â only to discover that she had it bad for a hood and ended up watching her and the hood lose a race with a freight train. Rivers works on his own, often at odds with the interests of the law. His specialty seems to be defending men accused of/convicted of murder when no one else believes they have one drop of innocence.

âThe Killer Is Mineâ is a terrific PI novel and a lightning fast read from cover to cover. On the way to righting wrongs and doing justice, Rivers encounters seven-foot tall circus freaks, blonde call girls (with âbedroom blond hair framing a face that was almost pretty as a dollâsâ), blackmailing waiters, victims families who are so wrought with grief that they are claimed by insanity and/or inebriation, precocious teenagers, and a grande dame of a wealthy family. He is battered, bruised, set on fire, shot at, jailed, run over, and otherwise trampled.

And, of course, the accusedâs wife (Laura Tulman) couldnât just be ordinary, could she? âShe was the kind whoâd make the whole trip for a man, right to hellâs front door. Even for a guy in his spot.â The accused on the surface doesnât seem like a crazed child molester/killer and, the narrator explains, âin a gentler world, Wally Tulman might have been an outstanding success. But the world was not the gentle place he needed. It was a place of atom bombs and wars and death and blood, and it viewed Wally Tulman with critical, bloody eyes.â And what they accused him of was putting him through hell on earth: âThey had built a nightmare like a strait jacket and laced his spirit up in it. They had him so confused he half-believed he had really done it.â

The late fifties/early sixties brought a ton of PIs of every kind to the literary world, but Powellâs Ed Rivers is one of the best. Powell has created a character that is not just a caricature, but has tremendous depth. He isnât just bamboozled by feminine wiles, but is concerned whether someone has lost their soul and now has âa chunk missing insideâ and has âlost the line between right and wrong.â

This is a really terrific read.

Ed Rivers- a rough knight in Tampa

"I figured Garcia would be back to shaking down dirty-picture peddlers in about sixty days. There wasnât much I could do about that. I was no Sir Galahad jousting for the city of Tampa.

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Title: Killing Cousins

Author: Fletcher Flora

Narrator: Renee Raudman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-10-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Willie is an alluring woman. Shes the kind of wife that other men lust for. But when she decides her husband, Larry, had ought to be murdered, the stunning beauty turns deadly. The killer? The man who agrees to help her carry out the devious plot? Larrys cousin Quincy.

Quincy plans how to get rid of the body - how to make it look like Larry had run off and left his wife behind. Its a grand plan.

But will it hold together?

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Title: Armchair in Hell

Author: Henry Kane

Narrator: Stephen Bel Davies

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-10-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

When a lush brunette turns up unexpectedly dead in a strangers bed, and an antique dealer (who is mostly legit) settles down in an easy chair with a dagger in his back, and a big-time gambler drops all bets on the kitchen floor in a pool of blood - then Peter Chambers, fictions most eye-catching, hard-boiled private eye, finds himself staked out as victim number four in a high-priced game of death and international intrigue.

Members Reviews:

Fun if complicated murder mystery in the hardboiled vein

Fun if complicated murder mystery in the hardboiled vein.Meet Peter chambers, the Manhattan private detective, and learn to love him while he battles with thoughs, socialites, femmes fatales and other New York occurrences. This novel, the first in a long series, dates from 1947 and has the flavor of a bygone but fascinating literary era.

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Title: Vice-Cop

Author: Richard Deming

Narrator: L. J. Ganser

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-10-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Are you just going to stand there, Sharon asked the vice cop, or do you want to join in the game?

It was in the line of duty, Matt kept telling himself as he played at love with the wild teenager. Just enough to gain her confidence - and an invitation to the orgies at the big house.

But in the end, Matt was far more deeply involved with Sharon than a cop had any right to be. When the wild party began, it was too late to prevent a murder.

And the vice cop was marked for victim number two.

Members Reviews:

Vice Cop Found At Wild Sex And Drug Party When Raided And A Dead Body Nearby

Deming was a pulp era writer in the fifties and sixties. Considering how good he is at telling a story, he ought to be more well known than he is. He's best known for his Mod Squad books.

As the title suggests, Matt Rudd is a vice cop in St. Cecilia. Although Prologue has done a commendable job of republishing these old books, what's missing is the cover from the original 1961 paperback edition which shows a bikini- clad woman sprawled out against a green background with a tag line about thrill parties, orgies, and murder.

Rudd is asked to investigate a socialite Isobel Whittier holding marijuana parties for teenagers. The complainant, a Mr. Manners, found a joint in his daughter's purse and had heard rumors that the parties are wild orgies.

Manners suggests that a young officer could go undercover posing as a rich playboy and possibly convince Manner's daughter to take him into one of these wild parties. Of course, it's Rudd who goes undercover and, of course, Manner's daughter Sharon is a knockout.

After a few days of escorting Sharon to the country club and the racetrack, she invites Rudd to one of Isobel's parties, one of those parties where you trade partners.

And what a party it is. Drugs, booze, sex orgies, and murder. And Rudd is right in the middle of it, torn between his role as a vice officer and his affection for the beautiful redhead he escorted to the party.

Despite the obvious sex and drugs elements guaranteed to sell books in 1961, it's one helluva good story.

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Title: The Naked Angel

Author: Jack Webb

Narrator: J. P. Guimont

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-10-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Hard-hitting Police Detective Sammy Golden and his two-fisted friend, parish priest Father Joseph Shanley, land in trouble right up to their collective necks, when a baffling case of murder involves them with a bizarre cast of characters, including a famous strip tease queen a wealthy dealer in used cars and dope a cold-blooded killerand a naked angel who appears nightly on a pure white cloud. A fast and furious thriller starring two of crime fictions most likeable sleuths.

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Title: The Bad Blonde

Author: Jack Webb

Narrator: J. P. Guimont

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-10-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Love brought them together - the mysterious blonde and the bitter, lonely piano player.

Murder stood between them - her secret, reluctant role as an accomplice in the vicious plot that caused two brutal slayings!

A wanton blondes clandestine romance sets police detective Sammy Golden and his crime-busting partner Father Joseph Shanley on the trail of a ruthless mobster who deals in dope and death. This is a fast, taut thriller by the best-selling author of The Deadly Sex and The Delicate Darling.

Members Reviews:

A Blonde Bombshell, A Brutal Murder, A Priest, & A Detective

The Bad Blonde, first published in 1956, Is the fifth of nine novels that feature the detective team of Jewish Police Detective Sammy Golden and Catholic Father Joseph Shanley, two good guys who can't keep out of trouble. Taking place in 1950s Los Angeles, the story is solid in hardboiled tradition. It has quite a few moving parts, a brutal attack on a night watchman, a deadly blonde bombshell, a piano playing virtuoso, and a tangled web of deceit and tricks.

On the critical side though, there were far too many changes of point of view, making the novel quite choppy in places, and the third person narrative style kept things distant rather than immediate.

Such a pleasure to read Jack Webb's novels

The prose is so poetic, the characters so interesting, and the stories - gritty and realistic as they are - so spiritually uplifting in the end. What a treasure to find his writings.

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Title: Havana Hit

Author: Mike Barry

Narrator: Adam Epstein

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-10-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

When a wolf leaves the pack, he lives only as long as he can kill by himself quicker and surer than any pack he runs up against. Meet a man beyond either forgiveness or vengeance. Meet the Man they call The Lone Wolf. Better meet him now. The way he lives, he cant live much longer.

To the Commissioner:

Burt Wulff, a former member of this department, began his campaign to destroy the international drug trade in New York. Traveling then to San Francisco, back across the country to Boston and back yet again to Las Vegas - all within a period of less than four weeks - he seems to have been solely responsible for the deaths of several hundred operatives involved at all levels of the national and international drug trade. At least three of them were at the highest perceptible levels.

In San Francisco Bay, fire aboard and subsequent sinking of a large freighter; the destruction of a townhouse in NYC and a row of residences in Boston; the gutting of the Paradise Hotel, a major resort and gambling center in Las Vegas; all seem to be Wulffs work.He is apparently marked for execution at all levels of the network and despite the success of his shock tactics, cannot go on much longer.

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Title: Desert Stalker

Author: Mike Barry

Narrator: Adam Epstein

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 7 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-10-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

When a wolf leaves the pack, he lives only as long as he can kill by himself quicker and surer than any pack he runs up against. Meet a man beyond either forgiveness or vengeance. Meet the Man they Call The Lone Wolf. Better meet him now. The way he lives, he cant live much longer.

Memo To: Network

Subject: Burt Wulff

This man must be killed on sight. Details of the bounty will be distributed in a further memo.

Subject is a veteran of combat and displays an extremely sophisticated knowledge of explosives, incendiary devices, armaments of all kinds and hand-to-hand combat. He is responsible for at least on 150 deaths and it appears that his war is now accelerating.

In the twelve years of the interlocking organization and the important supply pact of 1963, no such danger had appeared. Wulff is only one man but for that precise reason retains a great freedom of action. He is a cold, remorseless killer and the danger he represents is not to be ignored.

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Title: Johnny Liddell's Morgue

Author: Frank Kane

Narrator: Robertson Dean

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-10-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

A gorgeous gal with an insatiable appetite for love....

A gossip columnist who scooped the world with his own obituary....

An innocent young girl forced into a degrading racket....

Plus other assorted chacters involved in mayhem and murder, in a collection of sizzling stories featuring Johnny Liddell, the wise-cracking, free-wheeling, quick-fisted private detective with the nasty habit the mobsters hate - he keeps on breathing!

Members Reviews:

Old School Tough Guy

It should come as no surprise that one or more of these eight stories became scripts for the 1959 Mike Hammer TV series. I remember seeing the first story "Lead Ache" on R-TV not too long ago.

Which is not to say these stories were 'made for TV.' The last story in particular, "Glory, Halleluia," is far racier than any TV show of its time. In it, Johnny goes to New Orleans where he finds that ancient voodoo and modern blackmail go hand in hand.

Johnny Liddell is pretty tough. So tough, in fact, that it's sometimes unclear what makes him a good guy, and not just tougher (and more ruthless) than the thugs he's up against:

Liddell reached around him, tugged an automatic from his shoulder bolster. In his jacket side pocket, he found a sap. He weighed it in the palm of his hand. "And where do I find Angelo?"

The guard shrugged, didn't answer. Liddell grinned humorlessly. "I know a guy does tricks with a sap like this." He pounded it against the palm of his hand. "He can break every bone in a man's body without breaking the skin. I've always wanted to try it."

"He's in his office," the guard growled. "Top of the stairs."

Liddell nodded. "Thanks."

The prose has the objective, uncluttered manner which is a clear continuation of the 1930s hard-boiled Dime Detective line.

Here's some of the 50s flavor that revs a vintage/thrift shopper's motor:

"He crossed the sidewalk, shouldered his way through a chromed revolving door, entered a thickly carpeted lobby. A few upholstered chairs were occupied by baggy-eyed men wearing expensive looking suits, Countess Mara ties and the morning tabloids."

Lots of Johnny Lidell Stories

What's better than a Johnny Lidell story? Lots of Johnny Lidell stories. Rumour has it that Kane wrote 30 novels and as many as 400 Lidell short stories. These are some of the best. Lidell is a typical hardboiled PI in the traditional sense. Kane's tales are easy reading and lots of fun if you like this genre. This collection starts with a tale of what happens to reporters when they investigate folks who don't want to be investigated, "Lead Ache." Leave it up to Lidell and his gal pal Barbara to find out what's going on and what happened to the reporter and to the girls who are disappearing. The second selection, "Frame," is another great read. Lidell gets a call from an actress client who is being guarded by one of his associates. Things are not good when he gets out there and the local pice think Lidell's responsible. The third story is "Return Engagement.". A client shows up and tells Lidell that he has been on the run because he shot a man to death six months earlier but the man's photo shows up in that day's paper with a blurb about being killed the night before in a hit and run.