HAD it not been for the fire, Simon Templar, much better known to both the police and the underworld as "The Saint," might really have enjoyed a long vacation and the exquisite pleasure which he always found in the company of Patricia Holm. But...
Charlie Fox is a bodyguard hired to protect spoiled and surly teenager Trey Pelzner. Charlie accompanies her boss (and lover) Sean, from England to South Florida for what appears to be a low-key security job. Not exactly. Her trip to Florida begins...
Dr. Miles Murdock dons the face of his murdered brother to become the terrifying avenger known as the Purple Scar! Contains all four adventures of the most offbeat pulp hero. Includes an all-new introduction by Will...
FINGERS OF DEATH was originally published in the March 1, 1933 issue of The Shadow Magazine.
What are the "fingers of death?" Who controls them? Are they seeking new victims? And how are they made to bring doom to the innocent? The Shadow is the...
Wealthy, powerful, conscienceless, a band of supercriminals wage death-filled battle with the master of crime detection. Originally published in SHADOW Magazine, Volume II, Number 1, February...
Although Sam Spade is perhaps the most famous of all hard-boiled detectives, creator Dashiell Hammett only featured the character in a single novel, The Maltese Falcon, and three short stories. Spade burst onto the airwaves in 1946, portrayed to...
Talmage Powell (1920–2000) was one of the all-time great mystery writers of the pulp magazines (and later the digest mystery magazines). He claimed to have written more than 500 short stories, and we have no reason to doubt him — we are working...
After Mike Hammer witnesses Wall Street superstar Vincent Colby getting clipped by a speeding red Ferrari, the shaken victim’s stockbroker father hires Hammer to find the driver. But the toughest private eye of them all soon is caught up in a...
A sinister criminal organization called "The Hand" challenges the Dark Avenger to a fight to the finish.
From out of darkness comes The Hand to confront The Shadow - and only he could read completely the terrible message it...