The Cinnamon Murder
By Frances Crane

Pat and Jean Abbott are in New York City, enjoying the nightclubs but anxious to return home to San Francisco, when they fall into the dangerous orbit of an ash blonde with cinnamon-colored fingernails. First published in 1946.

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The Wrong Murder
By Craig Rice

Jake Justus and Helene Brand are about to tie the knot but, as usual, things don't go smoothly. It all starts when Jake, filled with nonchalance and not a small amount of liquor, makes a bet with a wedding guest that she can't commit a murder he can't solve. She thinks doing so would be a great way to get her picture in the paper. In the meantime, Helene, en route to the airport, treats Chicago streets as if they were part of the Indianapolis Speedway and lands in the jug where she spends the night playing checkers with the constabulary instead of cuddling with her one and only. When a corpse does turn up, Jake thinks it's part of the bet and enlists the help of lawyer John J. Malone.

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The Death Angel
By Clyde B. Clason

Prof. Theocritus Lucius Westborough makes his second appearance in this title first published in 1936. Westborough is invited to the Wisconsin estate of an old friend only to be doped with paraldehyde, finally waking from his sleep by a revolver shot to discover that is host was missing. It's the "amazing story of a man twice murdered, and a killer who was successful when the odds were 1542 to 1 against him."

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The Shocking Pink Hat
By Frances Crane

Pat and Jean Abbott are back home in San Francisco when through the fog they witness an automobile accident in which a murdered man is discovered slumped over the steering wheel. What's more the dead man is the estranged husband of a very good friend of the Abbotts, Nancy Leland, who immediately is suspected by the police of having done in her husband. Pat and Jean think otherwise, but before they nab the killer, two more people will die. First published in 1946.

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Blind Drifts
By Clyde B. Clason

When Prof. Theocritus Lucius Westborough inherits a Colorado gold mine, he little realizes that it will confront him with one of the most difficult murder cases in his short career as an amateur sleuth. One of the mine's directors has vanished and the good professor descends into the mine to probe for answers. It was in this mine that a woman known as "bearcat on wheels" was shot to death in front of seven witnesses by a gun that was seemingly nonexistent. First published in 1937.

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