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When private investigator Max Thursday is asked to recover some gambling IOUs for a mysterious woman, he stumbles into a vicious blackmail ring. The Frame-up involves compromising photographs used as weapons against prominent men and women who are willing to pay high prices. The business is so lucrative that one of the local gangsters sets out to...

It started like most of Marian's troubles, because of her betting the ponies - that consuming habit which she herself could hardly understand.Someone told her once that she wanted to lose. But Marian knew that was nonsense. She wanted to win, win, win!This time when Marian lost, she became desperate. Her husband, Warren Emrick, refused to give...

They were grandstand observers, living the free and easy life:Charley Martins, ex-pug turned remittance man, whose apartment was wired against intruders;Pascale, 18, ash-blonde, better looking than Bardot, a sex-kitten who worked in her father's caf and played with Americans only;Gil Fletcher, tall, emotional, a painter in love with Simone;Ed...

Manny Moon is back! (also published as Whistle Past the Graveyard)...

Trouble is a redheadLydia had a problem, and she dumped it right in Johnny Liddell's lap, along with her own million dollar body. She was very luscious - but somebody had something on her that was very ugly, and even more expensive.Johnny told her not to pay off the blackmailers. Dollars to doomsday, she would just be buying her own corpse on...

A planet-wide plot! The stakes? All the world's people.The million cities cover every inch of the Earth's surface with a gleaming metal skin. They penetrate deep into the planet's core. And billions of people crowd them, fast squandering the depleted resources of an aging world.The way forward for the human race lies in only one...