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The Domino Lady first appeared in the pulps in 1936. After graduating from the Berkeley College in California, Ellen Patrick goes off to Europe on a joy-filled jaunt. Her trip is cut short when her widowed father, DA Owen Patrick, is murdered by gangsters. Upon her return home she learns the corrupt authorities have no intention of finding her father's killers. Thus she puts on a domino mask and a backless white dress to avenge him.

Pulp Confidential authors Tim Bruckner and Derek Lantin bring listeners the experience of the shadowed corners of crime in the mold of the 1930s pulp magazines. First up is Tim Bruckner's "Scared Pretty": It is the 1930s and a sadistic serial killer is on the loose in Hollywoodland. What follows is writer Derek Lantin's Bangkok thriller "The Missing Beauty": British accountant Jack Walters is in Bangkok for a new job. What he finds instead is an exotic beauty - leading him into a web of kidnapping and murder!

A pearl with a long and bloody history. Author Tim Holter Bruckner offers up a noir-inspired story of intrigue, action, and adventure in the tradition of Dashiell Hammett. For centuries, the Pearl Le Fong's perfection inspired covetousness and brutality. Cold blooded murder brought it into the possession of England's most notorious criminal mastermind and only one man can put an end to Syng's reign of terror, consulting detective Desmond Owle. Owle's critical sensitivity to light plunges the investigation into the darkest corners of London society at the peril of his and Mrs. Rothman's life.

Sensible Redhorn by Tim Holter Bruckner collects four adventures of the title character, a six-foot-six, 300-pound crime reporter for the Flashburn. Redhorn has seen evil like no other. And when that evil wrenches its way into the lives of the people closest to him, he'll do whatever it takes to keep them safe, even if it means putting his own life in danger. A colorful cast of eccentric characters bring humor, intrigue and passion into each compelling tale.

Nate Selegman's friend, Wilson Montgomery, a.k.a., Turtle, was a piece of work. He was a lying, conniving, self-serving jerk. And someone murdered him. And enjoyed doing it. The cops have no leads and no suspects. Nate decides to find out what happened to his old friend. The more he discovers the less he knows. One thing becomes clear. The Turtle he thought he knew was someone else.