The cameras are set, the scene has already been rehearsed; "Shoot!" the director says. . . . What happens is stark tragedy-not of the movie, play-acting variety, but like a chapter out of the deeper drama of life itself.

Spicy Detective Stories draws darling divas and gorgeous good girls from the Golden Age of Comics! Includes the ENTIRE original strip run of Sally the Sleuth, plus Jaguar Bond, sizzling Scorchy, luscious Black Mistress, and the bodacious Blue Velvet! 100 Big Pages of daunting detectives and femme fatales!

FOR NO RANSOM by Robert A. Garron Fleischer had laid his plans with consummate skill, and the kidnaping went through without a hitch. Only the accident of a voice heard over the radio told Phil where his sweetheart was. DEATH'S BLUE DISCS by Robert Leslie Bellem Dan Turner could see no other way out. He must take the law in his own hands; but he figured it was worth the risk if it would get Judy Prescott out of the jam she was in.

SPICY DETECTIVE STORIES was published by the same publisher of comic book SUPERMAN. Stories normally dealt with a healthy dose of sex, topped off with a little murder and mayhem. HEADLESS CORPSE by E. Hoffman Price - A man would be nuts to turn up missing when he had a sweetheart like this, Cragin decided. But looking for a missing man and finding a corpse makes it more healthy for Cragin to be missing, too DEATH FOR A NAME by Robert Leslie Bellem (A Dan Turner-Hollywood Detective story) Dan Turner insists that he is a detective, not a blackmailer. Yet when the dynmaite is put under the hood of the car...he looks for the girl...

Spicy Detective was home to the odd-ball detective, Dan Turner-Hollywood Detective. A wise cracking, cigarette smoking, whiskey swilling dick with a huge following. SENORITA BLUEBEARD by N. Wooten Poge (Norvell Page) Eight Miami playboys had vanished without a trace before your old friend, Bill Carter, found himself marked for ninth on the list. His only hope lay in solving the clue of the slashed garter. ALIMONY LEAGUE by Robert Leslie Bellem A movie star on the way up...with a lot of ex-wives who want alimony and plenty of it. Would any of them want to pin a murder on him? It was Dan Turner's job to find out!