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A Time To Kill

Talmage Powell

A Time To Kill

" Jim Lassiter rode his long trail patiently, for he knew that, to an honest man, the time to kill may also be—a time to die!"

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A Woman’s Job

Talmage Powell

A Woman’s Job

Sometimes a criminal is too big for the police to touch, or for any one man to tackle. That’s when murder becomes…

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Murder on the Rocks

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Murder on the Rocks

The founder of a loan company for a small town confronts the conman who stole their $100,000.

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The Talmage Powell Crime MEGAPACK ®

Talmage Powell

The Talmage Powell Crime MEGAPACK ®

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 on a bibliography of his work and have documented 373 magazine stories so far…and who knows how many are out there under pseudonyms or buried in obscure magazines? He wrote his first novel, The Smasher, in 1959. He went on to pen 11 more novels under his...

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Black Cat Thrillogy #2: 3 Classic M...

Talmage Powell

Black Cat Thrillogy #2: 3 Classic Mysteries by Talmage Powell

Welcome to the second volume of The Black Cat Mystery Community’s «Thrillogy» series, celebrating classic mystery short stories. This time we focus on the work of Talmage Powell (1920-2000). Included are: EASY MARK LIFE SENTENCE REWARD FOR GENIUS At the beginning of his career, Powell published, under his name and many pseudonyms, more than 200 stories in top crime and mystery pulp magaziness like Dime Mystery and Black Mask Mystery Magazine. After the...

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The Dame Across the River

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The Dame Across the River

There was a house across the river. It meant nothing at first. Too many other things were real, thirty one-thousand dollar bills in each of the money belts Trantham and I wore day and night—and Ingram.

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Murder Goes to the Dogs

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Murder Goes to the Dogs

She was young, beautiful – and dead. And now they had to find her killer.

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A Break in the Weather

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A Break in the Weather

When an old-timer tells the sheriff he found the body of a woman frozen in Lake Poco, the sheriff expresses his doubts. Of course, he's obligated to investigate…no matter where it leads!

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A Way with a Will

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A Way with a Will

When enough money is involved, there is more than one way to bend a will to one's desires....

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A Change of Heart

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A Change of Heart

The plan to stop his rich aunt's heart transplant proceeded in a way both ironic and deadly…

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A Friendly Exorcism

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A Friendly Exorcism

When their house appears to be haunted, a young couple goes to extraordinary means to solve the mystery.

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The Crime Fiction MEGAPACK®

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The Crime Fiction MEGAPACK®

Collected here are 20 tales of darkest crime and criminals, by some of the foremost mystery writers of the pulp era. Included are: THE ART OF MURDER, by Norman A. Daniels SEX MURDER IN CAMERON, by Michael Fessier HOT-MOTOR HOMICIDE, by Norman Ober “GIVE ME A BREAK,” by Norman Struber EAR-WITNESS, by Maurice Beam THE GENTLEST OF THE BROTHERS, by David Alexander AUTHOR’S ADVENTURE, by Upton Sinclair ONE WAY...

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Gator Bait

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Gator Bait

When Chat, a boy living in the Bayou,, goes out «Gator Baiting» with his stepfather, he is reluctant, but his abusive «Pa» steamrolls over him.

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Crime Gets a Head

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Crime Gets a Head

A private detective hired to investigate a husband's death that was ruled a suicide tangles with mobsters—and a missing dog.

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Last Run of the Night

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Last Run of the Night

A young woman, the last passenger on a late night bus, gets to talking with a kindly bus driver about two murders that recently occurred.

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The Beautiful Miss Borgia

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The Beautiful Miss Borgia

Bob could see Pam’s thoughts mirrored in her eyes: Please. Bob. Steve’s a regular guy. He hated to do what he did to you. But he was a cop. He had to.

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Till Death Do Not Us Part

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Till Death Do Not Us Part

As constable of Grande Isle Parish, Louisiana (Jerem Jenks is the name), I’ll naturally stick to bald facts when I write the official report. I’ve pieced together details of the killing out at the Deveau place without much trouble. It was a simple, direct act of violence. Once it was started, it had to end in blood…

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False Start

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False Start

Nick Ramey, a gangster money handler, finds himself at the wrong end of a bellhop's gun…

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Classified

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Classified

The story is told through a series of classified ads, which begin with an advertisement of a rich bereaved widow looking for a renter for her estate. Further ads show evidence of a possible conspiracy and the marriage of the widow, Mrs. Thelma McCarson and the tenant, Mr. Larry Summers…

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Parole Violation

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Parole Violation

A mugger released on parole rankles against the indignities of his new job and despises the cruel heel of his parole manager. What's a guy to do? Run away with his girlfriend—but only after one last job…

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The Favor

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The Favor

She wasn't an ordinary woman – and what he did to her wasn't ordinary, either. A noir classic ripped from the pages of Manhunt (Septempter 1957 issue).

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A Mother's Heart

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A Mother's Heart

She’d now carried the imagined pregnancy—the product of rape and a mental breakdown—through the two years of padded cells, shock treatment, chemotherapy, and psychoanalysis. So powerful was her obsession that her menstrual periods had altered and her abdomen had that visible bulge. Of all the doctors, only Gramling had helped her to a measurable degree. And to him, the case was a chaffing frustration, a challenge to his science, his ingenuity…

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The Big One

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The Big One

They planned to kidnap a little boy, hold him for ransom, and collect a big payoff. Nothing would happen to the kid – Garvin promised. What could possible go wrong with their big score? A classic crime novella ripped from the pages of the Sept. 1960 issue of Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine!

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A Beautiful Babe and Money

Talmage Powell

A Beautiful Babe and Money

I was bone-tired when I locked the last gas pump, turned off the lights and closed the garage door. It had been a long day. One of an endless number of days. I crossed the concrete apron, got in my jalopy and started the motor. I gave the filling station a last look. It was tired and grubby in the early night. I'd really tried to make a go of it here, but one man can only do so much. All I wanted was to get a hot bath, food, and some sleep. I lived half a mile down the...

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