Kirjahaku

A RUSH HENRY MYSTERY #3: The door had scarcely closed on the mysterious young man who had sought protection from Rush Henry because he feared for his life when wealthy Paul Germaine, Sr., brought one of the strangest requests of Rush's hectic career as a private investigator. Rush was to keep Chicago mobsters away from Germaine's brilliant young daughter, Leslie, whose interest in criminal psychology had made her determined to find out, first-hand, what made a gangster tick. Five minutest later Rush found the mysterious young man stabbed to death in the alley outside his office. The dead man was Germaine's son, Paul Germaine, Jr. Then a tall, cadaverous man in ministerial black informed Rush that he had seen the murderer run from the alley and instantly Rush knew that a strange mob had moved in. The tall man was Otho Brin, first of several San Francisco gangsters Rush was so soon to encounter. Was Brin playing a lone hand, or was he connected with suave, cultured Bernard Jago and his lovely daughter, Myrna? Was the San Francisco gang bucking the Chicago mob? Which had been responsible for young Germaine's murder? And what was daring young Leslie Germaine's connection with her brother's death? A swift, baffling mystery novel of underworlds at war-and of the fall guy caught between.

MURDER WAS THE CLIMAX OF A KISS What had seemed to be only a routine assignment had led unexpectedly to the kiss-and-kill death of Donn O'Mara's partner. And when Donn took up the trail of the dame with the deadly embrace, he hadn't suspected that it would land him straight in the center of a war between crime syndicates. By that time it was too late to back out. Face to face with Mr. Big himself, Donn found that he was on a one-way street to the morgue. Then it was that he met that lethal girl again