''Are you a ladykiller?'' the vision asked. She had skin like cream, hair like jet, and a body that could turn any male into an instant sex-maniac. With a wicked little smile, she moved closer to Peter...

The only uninvited guest was—murder!The host and the principal guests at the wildest, wickedest masquerade ball of the society season were: A playboy millionaire with more women than is good for the...

Beverly Crystal had a million-dollar idea and a circle of “friends” who would never force her to hunt around for enemies.The happy crew included:Danny the Dance: who waltzed his way through life like...

It’s nice to be a millionaire.Money can buy you darn near anything. It can buy you things you’re only supposed to get for love. It can buy you the best-looking women—in a city where good-looking women...

The game of murder: it’s not a pretty game. The players are weird. They don’t fit in with normal people, sensible people - people who don’t get a kick out of shoving in the knife, ripping through the...

A petulant blonde bombshell with a deadly taste for danger … A ham actor who stars dramatically in his own murder … A sharpshooting hoodlum who takes his killing casually … And a lady Greek philosopher...

Take a beautiful woman - no, take two or even three beautiful women, take some money, throw in a con man and a hustler or two, even a rich and respected publisher and a bank v.p. won’t hurt. Add people’s...

Lady on the Make:She was a gorgeous Greek with a classic chassis. When she smoldered her way into a hot tumble with Peter Chambers, the fast-living private eye didn’t know whether he was in heaven, or...

Peter Chambers is a private richard who has a real affinity for trouble. He hasn't any notion at all who polished off the nasty blonde with the round hole between her eyes—or the little man swinging by...

The first night with her led to a file of blackmail photographs worth a fortune.The second night with her led to danger, violence, and sudden death.The third night with her led to the one mistake no private...

Olga was the sexy young wife of an old millionaire. She wore black painted toenails, a small black Luger, and very little else.Anabel was a talented stripper with an act that drove the customers wild....

A night-club owner gunned down at his own bar—an editor gutted with an antique switchblade—a smuggler who took five shots in the back—a millionaire whose “suicide” didn’t make sense …Each killing left...

Jason Touraine was irresistible to dissatisfied wives, lonely women, and roving females on the make. He had innocent eyes, an athlete’s body . . . and a tape recorder fashioned to look like a busy man’s...

A leggy torch singer of bawdy ballads with an eye-opening dance routine to match . . .A lady jewelry designer with an exclusive - deadly - clientele . . .A sweet young bride with a drawerful of illicit...

When a lush brunette turns up unexpectedly dead in a stranger’s bed, and an antique dealer (who is “mostly legit”) settles down in an easy chair with a dagger in his back, and a big-time gambler drops...

The proposition sounded like a pushover.All Peter Chambers had to do was find out where a teen-aged chorine had been for the past month and why. And for that information the girl’s father, a prosperous...

''She turned her head, young, pale, with enormous black eyes. She looked at me, but she didn’t see me. I saw her: the round smooth face and the deep black eyes and the full curved glossy mouth, a red...