Coward-McCann, 1939. — 159 p. Lemmy Caution is a Federal dick, a graduate of the school of hard fists, hard drinks and dubious wisecracks. He is investigating a counterfeiting case mixed with a suspect suicide that originated in New York and brings him in the opening scene to the hot desert outside Palm Springs. The period is somewhere around 1930, give or take a couple of...
Harlequin Books, 1950. — 184 p. Fourteen miles off the tail end of Andros Island in the West Indies lies Dark Bahama. Many people have discovered they can find their heart’s desires there; many have found, too, that even in paradise it pays to watch your step. Viola Steyning is young, wayward, rich and good-looking, and the sort of girl to cause her mother back home in England...
Collins, 1939. — 197 p. Lemmy Caution, on a case looking for a dead agent, finds himself in Mexico running into multiple mobsters and Mexican dames as he searches for the ultimate prize—a prize which could put Lemmy in very good standing at the F.B.I.
Collins, 1951. — 169 p. Michael Kells is a British secret agent hanging out in France and waiting for his next assignment when he comes across a beautiful woman—almost too beautiful to be true—who seems extraordinarily interested in him. When he finally has a chance to sidle up beside her, he’s a bit surprised when she works the current code phrase into her conversation....
Collins, 1942. — 176 p. When Julia Wayles is kidnapped in the U.S.A. and taken to England, FBI agent Lemmy Caution finds himself caught up in a tangled web of intrigue and international espionage. Julia is being held by two American mobsters, who may or may not be who they say they are. And as usual it’s the dames in the story who distract Lemmy from business.
Avon Book Company, 1946. — 175 p. Tough and hard as the Ozarks that bred him, Rene Berg fought his way up through the gang of Chicago during the days of prohibition. Then, at the peak of his power and success, he was framed by a beautiful woman and forced to flee for his life. How this dashing, steel-nerved gunman turns up years later as the “dark hero” of the Norwegian...
Wm. Collins Sons & Co. Canada Ltd., 1946. — 142 p. The sinister business of counter-espionage is played out by an array of magnificent characters. Quayle, compounded of wisdom, administrative genius and the ability to live without sleep, wine or women; Shaun O'Mara, who loves all those things, looks like an actor and is an aristocrat, and works with subtlety, artistry and...
Dodd, Mead & Company, 1949. — 181 p. Johnny Vallon, exchanges the dangers of total war for the equally hazardous challenges of Chennault’s Investigations. And in the heart of London, with dramatic suddenness, murder hits home—right in Chennault’s office. Chennault, himself, owner of the flourishing detective agency, is found slumped over his desk. Heart trouble is the official...
Dodd, Mead & Company, 1943. — 178 p. Quayle, the master of a British spy ring in World War II, is faced with the task of dealing with a man who has come from Morocco with what he says is important information about German troops there. But is the man what he seems? Quayle puts his agents into action, not hesitating to risk their lives to discover the answer, but it is Quayle...
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