Harlequin Romance — Multiple Authors

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MUTINY...MURDER... DESIRE...were Captain Jabez Folger's pleasures. He loved nothing on land or sea but his ship, The Manatee, and the voluptuous sea-goddess who rode her bow. But Jabez Folger had a wife - wedded and bedded in one of the rare fits o...

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They met, quite by chance, when both thought that they were alone in the woods. Pamela slipped and came rolling down into the clearing to land at David's feet, showing in the process a good deal more than a nice young girl would normally show to a st...

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Three people ran away. Each had something to leave behind, a part of the past was best forgotten. Alison Courtney, Nick Sanford and Harry Metz came to Mexico to escape, only to find they could not get away from themselves. In his latest novel, Howard...

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A group of people happen together one December night in the comfortable atmosphere of Pop McCarthy’s tourist camp at Barton’s Corner on the coast of northern Florida. Pop has lived 76 years, and every minute of them has been vigorous. He knows th...

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She had seen him first when he came into the dining room to lunch. He was tall and fair with strong shoulders and a face not handsome, but arresting. ‘I don’t want anyone to help me,’ he said. But she knew that she wanted to help him in every...

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Montreal in the 30's! A teeming, glamorous, vicious city with its cafes and cabarets and tinselly night-life, but with its racketeers and its killings too. Against the world-famous city is set the story of a young advertising executive, who came up...

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Carl Chapman has forced life to give him what he wanted, the editorship of the New York Comet, the house with blue shutters, Rose and the children. And now, in a single moment, with two whispered words, it all threatened to come crashing about his ea...

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Liz Boykin, beautiful model, has become engaged to a wealthy socialite. Her one fear is that knowledge of a former love affair will end the romance. To make things really difficult, the former lover is murdered at a party which she is present -- afte...

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First published in 1944, Magdalen King-Hall's Life and Death of the Wicked Lady Skelton is a historical novel set in late-seventeenth-century England. It tells the story of Barbara Skelton, a well-born young woman trapped in a loveless marriage, who ...

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This is a tense and terrific tale of a horrible, threatening death. It describes, first of all, the carrying out, after the close of World War II, of certain laboratory studies in bacteriological warfare. These cold-blooded experiments with the deadl...

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She's a smooth blonde with enough real glamour not to need makeup -- especially when she's in tight white satin. She's honest and sort of naïve, but she knows how to get a man or get rid of a wolf. She's a cigarette girl in a spot just off Chicag...

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She was nice in many ways... When a thoroughly "nice" girl is clever as well, let her less strongly armed sisters beware. Phyllis Gordon was completely honest and very intelligent. Terry McLean was her first and only lover, and he really loved ...

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Gina knew that no man could resist her. She also knew what she wanted - and was ready to sell her soul for the right price . . . In the lush Pacific her talent for love won her a great fortune . . . . Then war came and Gina stood to lose everything ....

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THE NURSES WERE SECRETLY ROMANCING -- --with Drs. Holden and Greer. That much was certain. But just who was in love with which doctor -- posed more of a problem. When Dr. Greer was bundled off to jail, Pattie Wilson seemed to take it the harde...

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F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby still captivates readers with its vision of 1920s New York as a city of infinite potential, where ambition and defeat live hand in hand. This sentiment is captured, with even greater acuity, in the pages of...

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“I’m offering you a life of luxury, and in return I want you to give up gambling forever.” That was the bargain millionaire Garrison Marshall made with Penny Gaines when he proposed to her. And Penny wanted the security and luxuries Garrison...

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In the theater, reality and make-believe blend so intimately that Tim Briscoe was convinced that he was playing the role of detective when he stumbled upon the lifeless form of Nellie Brant. But the corpse was real, even though everything and everybo...

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Grace was a good fifteen years older than Jerry, but her arms were still soft and white, and Jerry was tired of bumming around, eating in cheap and dirty restaurants; fighting when he for the chance, working in the fisheries when he didn't. Jerry cou...

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When Dane Telldane rode into Six-Shooter Siding he thought it about the sorriest town he had ever seen. His opinion didn't change when he was mistaken for his notorious brother, Bufe Telldane. Before long he had become involved in the search for an a...

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Lush Valley Alternatively Tells The Story Of Katti, Growing Up In Chimacum Valley, Washington Territory, And Her Rise From Gifted Church Choir Singer To Notorious San Francisco Entertainer Katrine Trenholme, On Trial For Murdering Her Husband....

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Lisa Hanson was a woman with many identities. Her appearance was that of a frail woman however, she possessed inward strengths beyond human comprehension. She held deep devotion for those she felt empathy for and an even deeper hatred for those who e...

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Rush Henry, Chicago detective, accepts the most difficult challenge of his career when he agrees to clean up Forest City, Illinois. Investigating organized crime in that Chicago suburb during the Capone era, he opens a Pandora's box of gambling, pros...

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THE SO BLUE MARBLE. IT PROMISED TREASURE AND DELIVERED MURDER. Once the dashing, top-hatted twins had the marble, they would do to Griselda what they had done to others. Her estranged husband, Con, a thousand miles away, could no longer save h...

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Harry Fabian has a dream to become the top wrestling promoter in London, but he has a problem: he needs money. Not too much -- only one hundred quid -- but it might as well be a million because he needs the money by the end of the week. What's more, ...

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In a backwater of decaying gentility on the outskirts of a California town live such curious folks as an excellent physician turned by greed into a charlatan, his nymphomaniac wife, an undertaker dreaming of becoming an expensive artist in his profes...

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At the height of the Cold War, the grocer Herr Dieter Koorp is living comfortably, even complacently, in the West German town of Lübeck. Then he receives a call from his estranged sister in East Germany, informing him of their father’s untimely ...

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Running liquor between Montreal and Windsor was the accepted way of making a fast dollar a couple of decades ago. But when Dave Manley left his newspaper job in Winnipeg to write fiction in Montreal he would have disagreed violently with anyone who ...

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If you have not already met Joe J. Saxon, private investigator, and Moe Martin, literary agent, an odd pair to say the least, here is the chance to follow the most amazing, fascinating, scandalous careers that have appeared in any form of fiction for...

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The female Nero Wolfe!Message from a Corpse is a masterpiece from the pen of Golden Age mystery novelist Sam Merwin, Jr. When writer Breck Barnum finds himself framed for murder, he soon realizes the slaying is connected to the autobiography of a wor...

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Mr. Bowler needed help. His insane wife had died - leaving a cool half million - and Mr. Bowler had secretly married Molly, his pretty, black-haired housemaid. All of which was very well, except that the Molly business was a direct violation of his d...

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This is no story for pacifists. It opens with a saloon brawl in Sleepy Creek, Canadian cow-town, and the fighting isn't over till the last stirring page is reached. Cow-country hellions, a dope smuggling gang, and the Canadian Mounties provide the ac...

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The tall fur-clad brunette at the auction rooms somehow reminded Johnny Saxon of an over-anxious burlesque queen. Certainly she did not look like a connoisseur of antiques. So it was with fascinated curiosity that the New York private detective obs...

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The female Nero Wolfe!The first outing of Amelia Winslow Brewster ("Amy" to her friends), the elephantine, cigar-smoking, blue-blooded genius of a detective, finds her in a battle of wits with an unknown killer who has neatly framed her nephew. You'l...

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Marc Jordan investigates the death of bride-to-be Dolly Porter who is found dead on the tracks, along with her jilted groom, Ted Arthur....

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Blood Enemy! They called the stranger Idaho and he was the best ranch foreman John Endicott ever had. He knew cattle and guns and had to handle both in the deadly range feud between Endicott and Clint Hollister. Hollister would stop at nothing, and...

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When Jim Randall returned to Briscoe, the little range town of his childhood, in response to a note that his father had suddenly died, he was met with a strange and hostile silence. No one cared to explain until Lewis Dunham, once his father's friend...

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A lovely young heiress of psychopathic tendencies, a young man who died incognito, a bewitching red head who wanted protection, a couple of killers looking for a fortune in emeralds .... One queer case after another, and they all spelld sudden death!...

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A head wound causes Chicago detective Rush Henry to develop amnesia while on a special case. Released from the hospital, he faces the problems of regaining his identity, solving the case on which he is working, and avoiding a murderer who is trying t...

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The affair of the painted skull started on March 24th. On that day Martin Adams, a lawyer-investigator by profession but with the sentimental heart of a perennial college man, passed the loan shop where the skull was on display, noticed the letters o...

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When Vic Malloy, head of Universal Services - an organization undertaking any job that a client wants done - is hired to watch a millionaire's wife suspected of kleptomania, it is just another routine assignment - until an operator working on the cas...

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MY OLD MAN'S BADGESomewhere along the Bowery prowled a fanatical killer who had vowed to kill one more New York cop to even up his ancient grudge. For years the New York police had been after this murderer...Patrolman Johnny Malone goes undercover to...

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Barselow was used to having his orders obeyed in Azure City. But when he gave orders that the Queen must be found, he ran into unexpected opposition.For there were other determined to find the Queen … Determined to risk their sanity, their very liv...

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Bill August, retained by the airline to investigate the murder, almost lost his life on his first try, after which he learned a few things: Vikki Kane, whose anatomical charms produced records high blood pressures in the opposite sex, had a theatrica...

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The crooks, the grafters, all of New York's underworld kept telling themselves that they never had it so good as they would now, with Johnny Devereaux retiring from the force after 21 years. Devereaux was a tough cop, tough to encounter and impossibl...

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Without such a monumental hangover that rainy morning, Store Detective Barney Cunard might have chuckled at the naked clothes dummy so bawdily displayed on his desk. But the subsequent discovery of the very nude, very real and very dead body of Nora ...

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The Man From Bar-20When Hoppy's friend, Johnny Nelson, left Bar-20 searching for even greater adventure and joined the CL Ranch, he found more than he expected. He found a hidden valley between Twin Buttes with over 200 of CL cattle rebranded QE. He ...

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Miss Blandish - innocent, exquisite, vulnerable heiress - is kidnapped by a gang of ruthless hoods who've never tried big-time crime. Foiled by their own vicious ineptitude and the greed of a superior mob, the kidnappers lose their million dollar pri...

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Back in the East, Jim Cort had been known as James Van Cortland, and undergone training to be an officer and a gentleman. But a wild and tumultuous spirit had possessed him even in those salad days, and he had thrown away an inheritance, a career in ...

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Blandish's Orchids #2 Carol Blandish was the voluptuous daughter of Miss Blandish, and only granddaughter of millionaire John Blandish. The trouble was that she had been conceived when her mother had been kidnapped and repeatedly raped by mentally...

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KITTY. CAROLAN. KATHARINE. THREE GENERATIONS OF PASSION-ATE AND STRONG-WILLED WOMEN WHO KNEW HOW TO GET WHAT THEY WANTED.... Kitty Kennedy lost her true love before their child was born. She was desperate to protect herself and give her baby a ...

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A private investigator and former mystery writer Johnny Saxon is hired to help a woman regain her memory, only to discover that the woman herself is probably the next target of a killer....

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Jim Mellor appears to lead a double life. As he sits alone contemplating taking his own life, his fiancée Judith Lorne is distraught. His disappearance, following being accused of murder - something Judith refuses to believe �" may have some expl...

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Harry Nelson got Dan Henderson out of the pen for his own very special reasons. The price of Henderson’s freedom was simple -- he merely had to track down and find Nelson’s voluptuous wife, Connice...Henderson finally found her in far-off Hawaii ...

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There was no thought of murder when Michael DePereyra died on the Chicago-New York train. . . . But Steve Erickson had a hunch. He also had a specially interested client, the corpse's curvaceous widow, not to mention his own personal interest in blon...

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A Matter of Policy is an enthralling read that begins when a young friend of Amy Brewster’s finds his life in jeopardy when an unknown mastermind insures it for one million dollars. This is the last of three classic Amy Brewster mysteries available...

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Dillon, an American gangster, had been out of the rackets for some time - but now he was ready to carve his way back in. Ambitious, cold blooded and impatient, he just needed a start - and one or two unlucky people to help him on his way. He found th...

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An 85-year-old sea captain comes between a military man and an adventurer, who both want control of an underwater passage from Morocco to Gibraltar hidden for 2,000 years. ...

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From the moment Lee Dedrick, husband of the fourth richest woman in the world, disappears, believed kidnapped, Vic Malloy of Universal Services is snarled up in a vicious vortex of murder, glamorous women and violent non-stop action. The curtain g...

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Tex Ewalt was educated before he came west and can quote Shakespeare, philosophy, and the Bible, which spices up his conversation some. He's gotten restless again and hopes to hook up with Hopalong Cassidy and Red Connors. He takes the train south to...

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Once again Vic Malloy, of Universal Services and Orchid City, California, fishes in waters so troubled they make a maelstrom look like a millpond. Janet Crosby's letter was the problem - it was unfortunate that is should have lain 14 months forgotten...

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The thrilling story of a young gunfighter's battle to erase the outlaw stigma he was branded with at birth! When Red Paine's father died a violent death at the hands of a vengeful posse, he fled to strange country to start life anew amongst people wh...

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Andre Lorch returns to Berlin, scene of his childhood, to find it a ghost city. Death walks beside him as he pursues his secret mission for American Intelligence using the tactics of gangland and the FBI. Fear follows him as he moves among a conque...

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Rick Mason, private eye, with the lucrative Global Indemnity account, had a hunch that all hell would start popping when heist-artist Mike Duryea was released from the penitentiary after serving five years for the Rajah Emerald haul. Global had shell...

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Red Hamilton was anticipating trouble for he was riding into a lawless frontier boom town. He was to help his old friend and ex-sheriff Black Jack Driscoll clean it up ... or so he thought....

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From the moment Dale's headlights hit the nyloned legs of lovely Julia Casson on that old Connecticut highway, trouble moved right in on him -- and stayed there. Gunmen, straight coppers and crooked coppers, luscious bedtime lovelies and the fabul...

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After five years, Gil Banning was returning to the frontier country. His saddlebags were crammed with gold, and he had just learned that the man he thought he had murdered was not dead....

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Margaret Stuart, the proud wife of a prosperous Iowa farmer, sets high standards for herself and others. Happy in her marriage, she tries to look the other way when her genial husband, Alec, takes to the bottle. When Elspeth, Margaret's sister, comes...

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One day he was an ordinary cowpoke engaged to a girl, the next day he was a vengeance-seeking outlaw, striking like lightning at bank after bank. Even the walls and the torture of a Texas prison couldn’t hold him. There was no stopping Clay Burch i...

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In this Golden Age mystery by the author of Skeleton Key, murder plunges a Berkeley husband and wife into the secret world of a cult. It's 1949, and with the War well and truly in the past, Americans are relaxing into the warm bath of suburbia. E...

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Dave Fenner #2 When a curvaceous, beautiful girl walks into your office, strips, and offers you a 6,000 retainer to help her out of the trouble she's in, it's hard to refuse. Especially it you're private eye Dave Fenner, the man who busted the not...

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This early work by James Oliver Curwood was originally published in 1919 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. In "The River's End", two men who physically resemble each other lead very different lives. C...

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An epic of the sea in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. An epic of the sea - of violent men and fiery passions....of tender love and brutal battles, fought for loot and greed and Queen and country....

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He was an ex-con walking the last steps toward freedom. He was an ex-con torn between the lust to get the man who “sent him up the river” and the vow to go straight; torn between returning to his faithful wife and his pulse-quickening Cuban mistr...

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Before the railroad's thin lines of steel bit their way up through the wilderness, Athabasca Landing was the picturesque threshold over which one must step who would enter into the mystery and adventure of the great white North. It is still Iskwatam ...

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First published in 1950, The House That Stood Still combines a Raymond Chandler style noir mystery with a science fiction thriller complete with robots, spaceships and telepaths. Allison Stephens is a property management attorney for the wealthy Mr. ...

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“CITIZENS, HIDE YOUR WIVES AND DAUGHTERS FOR THE KING COMES THIS WAY” Jane Shore well knew the reputation of the notorious libertine Edward the IV of England. His romantic escapades were the talk of the land. The beautiful young wife of the go...

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The Transition of Innocent Girl Into Sinister Consort Sullen-eyed and broken hearted, fourteen-year-old Catherine de'Medici rode into France. Behind her and before her rode the nobility of Italy. She was to marry Henry of Orleans, second son of th...

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First published in 1944, Magdalen King-Hall's Life and Death of the Wicked Lady Skelton is a historical novel set in late-seventeenth-century England. It tells the story of Barbara Skelton, a well-born young woman trapped in a loveless marriage, who ...

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A Strange Love Amler Ballard, illegitimate son of an English nobleman, fled to Haiti to escape the shame of his birth. There he became very wealthy. Then he met Lady Catherine Dunsberry. When Catherine’s father offered his daughter’s hand and a ...

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From an award-winning, master storyteller, a classic love story set on a barren, post-World War I island known for its shipwrecks.   A Nova Scotia classic, The Nymph and the Lamp is the story of Isabel Jardin, a strong and se...

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Young Dr. Evan Dale was in prison, paying society's just price for transgressing its commandments. This courageous outlaw was the man Judy Grayson loved, but when his life hung in the balance, the only person she could turn to was powerful ambitious...

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Blood flowed through the swamps, and down the rivers when the Yankee Rebellion swept over the eastern peninsula. Young David Strang, a hefty, handsome, fisher's son, was one of the leaders. Like the other idealists, who led the Great Cause, h...

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Johnny Farrar is a third-grade boxer, thumbing a ride to Miami, where he figures he can hit a jackpot. As fate would have it, he has a brush with gangsters in Pelotta, a small town on the way, only to be persuaded to fight a fixed boxing match and ea...

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In April, 1862, the Civil War is just starting its second year of fighting. Riverboat owner and captain Bill Horn wanted to fight for the Union, but it was decided he could better serve his country by using the Western Star to ferry troops and suppli...

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Susan Gellert is an obscure dancer - blonde, beautiful and innocent, who performed onstage with a deadly cobra on her neck, and a dancer, Denny, who also appeared innocent. Susan is insured for a sum of a million dollars at the National Fidelity, whe...

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When pretty Kit Douglas, fresh from a school marm's job in sedate Boston, claimed her inheritance, and abandoned copper mind in seething, brawling Copper Butte, Montana, old Yance Davis, the town's bottle-nursing judge, gave her the cold fact...

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Even Tamar's mother believed that the child had been forced on her by the Devil when, against her judgement, she was persuaded to attend a midsummer sabbath of witches. In a world of superstition and intolerance, Tamar, growing into a wild and be...

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Civilization had died screaming in a blaze of nuclear and biological warfare. Gradually, during the Dark Centuries that followed, secrets were re-discovered, and new knowledge gained. Finally, the key to immortality is found, and the preternaturally ...

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DANGEROUS DAMES! EXOTIC ROMPS! COLD-BLOODED MURDER -- 1950's STYLE! Veda Rux, a beautiful blonde, known professionally as a stripper, steals a priceless Cellini dagger from the safe in millionaire Lindsay Brett's home. Her agent, Corneli...