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Murder Calls The Tune

(2020)
An omnibus of novels by

 
 
Four novelettes about life on the home front during World War II including sabotage, refugees, fraud, espionage, treason and murder.

Murder Calls The Tune (1943) – Special Investigator Don Payne barges into a grim game of espionage and intrigue played for high stakes when he tackles the baffling mystery that surrounds the Nevada war town of Desert!
Chapter I – War Center
Chapter II – Into the Trap
Chapter III – Beyond the Law
Chapter IV – Wanted for Murder
Chapter V – Magnesium Burns

Death Before Defense (1944) – A killer may make use of card sharps and mobsters in carrying out his grim murder plans —but what chance has he against an impromptu sleuth who has magic in his bag of tricks?
Chapter I – No Rough Stuff
Chapter II – A Torn Notebook
Chapter III – The Local Bad Man
Chapter IV – Disappearing Redhead
Chapter V – A Shrewd Little Guy

The Countess and the Killer (1943) – The blonde asked Bill French to call up a man and say she’d be late. But it was the Grim Reaper that kept her appointment on time. And it was Bill that looked like he was going to be late—the late Bill French.
A four chapter novelette.

Murder’s Mandate (1945) – Private Sleuth Sam Boyd plays for high stakes in a Western gambling town when he puts his chips on a scheme to prove his own innocence of crime—and solve a grim death riddle!
Chapter I – Blond Menace
Chapter II – In Custody
Chapter III – Deal For Half A Million
Chapter IV – Laura Springs A Surprise
Chapter V – Finger of Suspicion

Murder Calls The Tune contains 22 illustrations.


Genre: Mystery

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