Max Adrian was the rare stamp broker everyone in the know avoided. It never mattered to the shifty broker, until someone demanded a refund at gunpoint. Soon afterward, a dishy dame convinces Larry Storm, Adrian's rival, to play amateur detective for a hidden cache of priceless stamps. Storm is one step ahead of the tenacious Inspector Luke Bradley, who's one step behind a cold-blooded killer - and Storm had better start running....
"Cancelled in Red" appeared in "Argosy" magazine, touted as the $10,000 prize winner of the 1939 Dodd Mead Mystery Contest. The novel also grabbed the $1,000 Red Badge Prize Mystery title, and launched the career of "Hugh Pentecost," the pen name to the prolific Judson P. Philips, author of mysteries.
Genre: Mystery
"Cancelled in Red" appeared in "Argosy" magazine, touted as the $10,000 prize winner of the 1939 Dodd Mead Mystery Contest. The novel also grabbed the $1,000 Red Badge Prize Mystery title, and launched the career of "Hugh Pentecost," the pen name to the prolific Judson P. Philips, author of mysteries.
Genre: Mystery
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