1985, trade paperback edition, Dennis McMillan Publications, Volume No. 1 of the author's appearances in the Detective Pulps series. 194 pages. Presents 7 short stories that originally appeared in the 1930's and 1940's.

After an all-night drinking bout Carl Dixon wakes up in a parked car beside a man who has been murdered. Carl is imprisoned for murder, but his fiancée, Sue Bailey, is convoked that he has been framed. She enlists the aid of a capable detective, and the two of them successfully track down the true murderer in a series of exigent episodes.

A collection of seven stories from the pulp detective magazines of the 1940's includes "Death of a Vampire," "Twice-Killed Corpse," and "The Ghost Breakers"

A world had collapsed around this man—a world that would never shout his praises again. The burned-out cities were still and dead, the twisted bodies and twisted souls giving him their last salute in death. And now he was alone, alone surrounded by memories, alone and waiting ...