Crackling, burning death waited for me in that quiet Georgia countryside... But I had to go back for three reasons: To get Lucy, to get the money — and to kill my brother Charlie!

Harrowing tales of mayhem, murder versus moonshine acting as counter irritants and prescribed by spine-tingling specialists chosen for you this month by the MASTER OF SUSPENSE

In that ill-assorted collection of relatives there was one who would do murder — for a fortune.

When a man finds a girl running his business, it’s bad... But when he finds his partner murdered — it’s terrible!

It was a romantic setting — the right place, maybe the right girl — but instead of cocktails, it turned out to be...

Paula Sloan had plenty of reason for killing her patient, and when he suddenly died things looked pretty bad for her!

To save Laura’s life — and maybe his own — Brad was forced to reveal a past that might cancel out his future.

Frank’s shackles were never so heavy as they were after he’d shucked them...

Three frightened people waited in that darkened room. Three, and a grim unwanted guest — Murder!

Amnestic Dash Smith couldn’t marry the lovely widow until he got rid of his double-crossing wife — and himself.

Where there’s a will, there’s a way — and the grim, cold household, soggy with riches, waiting for the old man to die...

With an iron-clad defense, Ralph Smith still had to remain silent when his last mile came. For a murder he’d never committed had trapped him hopelessly in the steel jaws of homicide justice.

Steve had never even met the girl, yet her torrid love-making was leading him to the brink of disaster!

A walk on the wild side! In this series of collections of gritty Noir and Hardboiled stories, you’ll find some of the best writers of the craft writing in their prime.

There’s a price no man should pay ex-con Quinn learned — even to rub out a... deathhouse dolly.