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| The Horoscope Case [10 pages, 254K] |
Dan Turner-Hollywood Detective January, 1942 |
Dan Turner | |
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The stars had forecast her death. Professor Astrio had sent the message. The movie star wanted protection - but what could mere flesh and blood do against supernatural powers? [2009-12-05]
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| Million Buck Snatch [10 pages, 206K] |
Dan Turner-Hollywood Detective January, 1942 |
Dan Turner | |
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Guns roared in Chinatown. The police took it calmly. "Another tong war," they said. But Hollywood's super-sleuth Dan Turner was always a doubter. Wouldn't it seem more reasonable that somebody had deliberately shot at the girl to keep her from tipping anyone off about the kidnapping?
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| Murder's Messenger [10 pages, 260K] |
Dan Turner-Hollywood Detective January, 1942 |
Dan Turner | |
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It's a big job for a detective to stop a murder from happening - especially if he gets there too late. But with the cutest quail in Hollywood cooled, her killer had to be found [2009-08-01]
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| Beyond Justice [10 pages, 171K] |
Dan Turner-Hollywood Detective April, 1942 |
Dan Turner | |
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Dan didn't like this beauty contest, even though he was a judge. He liked it even less when the winning beauty was knifed. Was the dead girl's murder an act of vengeance - or a legacy of love? This is a revised, toned-down version of a story originally published in Spicy Detective Stories, November 1935. [2012-07-07]
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| Death on Location [9 pages, 181K] |
Dan Turner-Hollywood Detective April, 1942 |
Dan Turner | |
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A camera never lies about a murder it has recorded. But a murderer can lie, and it's up to Dan to discover who knifed the heroine of the desert pic while she was bathing in her dressing tent. [2012-01-07]
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| Drunk, Disorderly, and Dead [18 pages, 300K] |
Dan Turner-Hollywood Detective April, 1942 |
Dan Turner | |
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She loved her husband, yet she was determined to create a public scandal. Dan Turner might not have minded so much being her partner in the scene except that her husband was his friend. There was no way for him to guess it was all leading to murder. [2012-11-03]
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| Gas-House Still [12 pages, 174K] |
Dan Turner-Hollywood Detective April, 1942 |
Dan Turner | |
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It's tough to have your client, a lovely movie star, killed almost before your eyes. . . . In trying to solve the murder mystery, Dan Turner nearly co-starred in it as a corpse! [2012-08-04]
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| Murder Done Twice [11 pages, 196K] |
Dan Turner-Hollywood Detective April, 1942 |
Dan Turner | |
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Only a little while ago Dan had seen Kathy and she had been dead - very, very dead. Now, alive as anyone possibly could be, she was sitting up, talking flirtatiously, positively amused at his amazement! What could it mean? Was his mind going? [2012-10-06]
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| Murder For Fame [10 pages, 214K] |
Dan Turner-Hollywood Detective April, 1942 |
Dan Turner | |
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Her current boy-friend always bought champagne, yet it was gin that the red-haired doll spilled! Or was it water? Or vitriol? Or had she really spilled it anyway? Whatever the facts, it made copy for a movie gossip-columnist, and for Dan there were more murders to be solved. [2012-02-04]
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| Murderer's Error [9 pages, 181K] |
Dan Turner-Hollywood Detective April, 1942 |
Dan Turner | |
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When a woman hits the top in Hollywood, she becomes the target for envy, jealousy, hate, and gossip. And that's how it was with Beryl Bannock. When her secretary was killed, Dan realized that her enemies were playing for keeps and that his job of bodyguarding was not going to be all the fun that it promised to be. [2012-04-07]
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| Star Chamber [10 pages, 256K] |
Dan Turner-Hollywood Detective April, 1942 |
Dan Turner | |
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The girl had paid Dan Turner five centuries and asked him to meet her at eight. Now her ex-husband was trying to hire him, and setting the same hour for an appointment! The whole set-up smelled to Dan, and behind it all was the stronger smell of cooking opium. [2012-06-02]
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| Broken Melody [10 pages, 199K] |
Dan Turner-Hollywood Detective December, 1942 |
Dan Turner | |
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Nothing scalds Dan Turner so much as a threatening note. When there's geetus in a case, and when there's a little songbird like Chiquita in the picture, nobody's going to tell Dan to layoff, and get away with it! [2008-11-01]
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| The Color of Murder [9 pages, 402K] |
Dan Turner-Hollywood Detective December, 1942 |
Dan Turner | |
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When a man goes on a bender and tries to kill the woman who has made a success of him, an ounce of prevention is called for, Dan Turner figures, or a pound of murder will be roosting on his doorstep. [2009-03-07]
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| Daughter of Murder [10 pages, 228K] |
Dan Turner-Hollywood Detective December, 1942 |
Dan Turner | |
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There are some things a daughter ought to know about her own mother - including how she died. Dan Turner had some doubts about both would-be heiresses, but no doubt about which one wanted to kill him! [2008-12-06]
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| Killer's Union [10 pages, 321K] |
Dan Turner-Hollywood Detective December, 1942 |
Dan Turner | |
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Keeping a cute movie extra on ice in his apartment is bound to get Dan in trouble. And part of it is that a gunman doesn't forget how to play rough just because he's turned screen actor. [2009-07-04]
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| Malibu Mess [10 pages, 369K] |
Dan Turner-Hollywood Detective December, 1942 |
Dan Turner | |
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Nothing can be so mixed up as a couple of scrambled Hollywood marriages - with everybody wanting to kill everybody else. Dan is on hand to prevent things going quite that far . . . [2009-01-03]
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| Arrow From Nowhere [11 pages, 369K] |
Dan Turner-Hollywood Detective February, 1943 |
Dan Turner | |
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There was only one man on the set who could have shot the arrow, yet Dan hated to think Jeff could be guilty. Motive tumbles over motive, and suspect waltzes around with suspect - but there still remains the question: Where did the arrow come from? [2011-01-01]
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| Feature Snatch [12 pages, 506K] |
Dan Turner-Hollywood Detective February, 1943 |
Dan Turner | |
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The idea was new - and was tops! Whoever thought of stealing a million dollar production before it was released? And behind it was the ransom angle, and there was blackmail, too. Sometimes a detective likes to get his teeth into a case like that. It's like matching your wits with a genius. [2010-05-01]
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| Heads You Lose [13 pages, 356K] |
Dan Turner-Hollywood Detective February, 1943 |
Dan Turner | |
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It looked like a gift from Santa Claus left on Dan's doorstep, but, unwrapped, it turned out to be as grisly a thing as anyone could hope not to find. [2010-06-05]
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| Homicide Hunch . . . [8 pages, 326K] |
Dan Turner-Hollywood Detective February, 1943 |
Dan Turner | |
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It was a screwball situation. Here was Dan Turner, sitting at home and minding his own business, when the knock came at his front door. A short time later he was in a lavish apartment a few miles away, where he had been convoyed at the point of a gun, and a beautiful cutie he had never seen before was calling him "Dan, darling" and implying that they were old sweeties! [2011-03-05]
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| Murder's Blue Motive [12 pages, 365K] |
Dan Turner-Hollywood Detective February, 1943 |
Dan Turner | |
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Dan Turner had little sympathy for the dead woman, and a lot for the girl with the pistol. This seemed the time to take the law into his own hands. [2011-04-02]
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| Phony Shakedown [15 pages, 538K] |
Dan Turner-Hollywood Detective February, 1943 |
Dan Turner | |
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At first, Dan Turner thought the girl had shot at him and it didn't make him any the less mad because she had missed. But before he could make her talk, another bullet closed her mouth. That sort of interference in Dan's business, was the last straw! Somebody was going to pay - and plenty. [2010-10-02]
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| Alibi in Reverse [6 pages, 118K] |
Mammoth Detective March, 1943 |
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Nosey Logan had a peach of an alibi; so perfect it was foolproof. But if he'd been without one, he'd have been safer! [2018-05-12]
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| Dead Man's Shakedown [10 pages, 572K] |
Dan Turner-Hollywood Detective March, 1943 |
Dan Turner | |
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Whatever it was, it had happened thirteen years ago! Whatever it was, only a dead man was supposed to know anything about it! Yet now Sid Waldring was being blackmailed for it. Completely in the dark, Dan offers to help if he can. [2008-03-29]
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| Killer's Investment [10 pages, 237K] |
Dan Turner-Hollywood Detective March, 1943 |
Dan Turner | |
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It looked like the old badger game to Dan Turner - at first. Then he realized the movie star had no motive except to escape a frame-up for murder, herself. . . . [2009-04-04]
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