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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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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 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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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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A Time To Kill

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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 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 Woman’s Job

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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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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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Classified

Talmage Powell

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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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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Deadliest Enemy

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Deadliest Enemy

The most dangerous power you can give someone is the legal right to take a gun and go after their deadliest enemy!

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Death of a Daughter

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Death of a Daughter

Fred started the motor but didn’t put the car in gear right away. “It won’t happen here, Marcia. I believe in Leacock. And Leacock understands. He knows I can’t take on the job and do it halfway.” A crime novella originally published in the May, 1960 issue of Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine.

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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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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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Her Dagger Before Me

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Her Dagger Before Me

A classic crime story originally published in the July, 1949 issue of Black Mask.

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In the House of Rats

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In the House of Rats

An invalid old man overhears his family plotting to murder him, and begins to envision them as rats. What he really needs is a cat to protect him!

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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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Mind the Posies

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Mind the Posies

"You don’t know me," a thin, taut, male voice said, «and my name’s not important. What I’ve got to say concerns your husband – and a girl.»

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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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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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Next!

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Next!

He's standing over you holding a razor. It's sharper than the sharpest knife…

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One Unnecessary Man

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One Unnecessary Man

Janet's first husband has always had dependent tendencies. Now that he's stalking her, she's had enough and isn't going to protect him any more…

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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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