When Mark Weir, a Chicago homicide lieutenant, starts investigating a series of murders of army servicemen, he comes on a smuggling “loop” set up by two army sergeants between Frankfurt, Germany, and Chicago. With the help of a striking Chicago newspaperwoman, his ex-wife, Lieutenant Weir begins to fit the pieces together... when he is suddenly gunned down. It is his father, a retired general who wants to assuage the bitterness that divided father and son during the Vietnam years, who decides to avenge his death — by taking on the son’s mission himself, as a matter of honor. Set against the backdrops of Chicago, Washington and NATO Europe, A Matter of Honor races with edge-of-the-seat excitement to a climax as startling as it is original

The powerful story of a man and a woman who built their hope of heaven on murder

Larry Kent stalked out of the house, determined to punish his wife by sowing a few wild oats. Then came the dawn — and with it a chance to reap the harvest

The men who bossed the city were running scared. Elections were coming up and the voters were rallying behind Richardson Caldwell, an idealistic reformer with the old-fashioned notion that criminals belonged in jails instead of public offices. But then a staggering development struck at the hopes of Caldwell’s supporters. He was found drunk in his apartment, and beside him lay a murdered woman whose reputation had been notorious gossip for years. Caldwell was arrested and charged with murder. The cell door swung shut on his career and the hopes of the city for decent government. It was then that Sam Terrell, a newspaperman, began a determined inquiry into the life of the murdered girl, and into the forces to whom Caldwell’s arrest had meant a reprieve from ruin. The search was dangerous; but Terrell stuck at it stubbornly, convinced that his newspaper owed more to the community than sports news and comics. To this explosive situation William P. McGivern adds an illuminating dimension by examining with sympathy and power the question of how much a man owes the community in which he lives. Mr. McGivern’s compassionate talents have been seen in such novels as THE BIG HEAT, ROGUE COP, THE SEVEN FILE, etc. In NIGHT EXTRA, a story of passions and politics and people, he has reached a new superb level of suspense

Every man, and every community, has its breaking point. This is the arresting and powerful idea which is examined by William P. McGivern in his new novel, Savage Streets. The suburban development of Faircrest had seemed a model of contemporary values, pleasures and problems, its young home owners sane and intelligent — until the unexpected happened. Then John Farrell’s son began to steal, the Wards’ boy lied in terror about a fight he had been in at school and a German Luger disappeared from the Detweillers’ home. It became apparent that an ugly and mysterious influence was operating within the peaceful blocks of Faircrest. The adults recognized the danger signals. It was obvious their children’s values and safety were being threatened. This was a time for calmness, for issues to be clearly defined. But the parents failed to realize that their own values were also put to test in this explosive situation. A conviction of righteousness swept through the community like a grass fire, and with it an impatience with the law and a disregard for the rights of anyone beyond the threatened portals of Faircrest. What man, what individual life is ever strong enough to survive such a spell of riot? Here, in a tense and unusual book, is a sobering picture of what could happen in any modern American community

It was Jeff’s job to make sure the girl caught a train out of town. This time he earned his fee... the hard way!

SHIELD FOR MURDER is a hard-hitting story about a rogue cop who ran with the hare while he hunted with the hounds — and so caught himself in the squeeze between the underworld and the law. Barney Nolan had a long record with the force. Some of it was good — but he was a killer who shot too fast and too straight. He fell in love with a beautiful singer and couldn’t quite win her. He slugged an unoffending bookie for the big money he carried — only to find it was hot and couldn’t be spent. He fought his way out of a deadly trap and escaped, only to learn that he was taking the trap with him as he fled. SHIELD FOR MURDER is the compelling story of a man falling into his own pit, of his attempt to escape, and his final plunge... It’s a spine-chilling story, with the police force of a great city matching wits with the brutish courage and cunning of one of themselves who was using his shield for murder

Black Dove... The identity of the notorious criminal, Black Dove, still baffles the officers of Interpol, the Surete and Scotland Yard. But there is nothing to connect him with Peter Churchman, an Englishman living quietly in Southern Spain with his bright new love. Until Angela reappears, fragile and evil, with her old power over him and her old craving for money

Pulp fiction has been looked down on as a guilty pleasure, but it offers the perfect form of entertainment: the very best storytelling filled with action, surprises, sound and fury. In short, all the exhiliration of a roller-coaster ride. The 1920s in America saw the proliferation of hundreds of dubiously named but thrillingly entertaining pulp magazines in America: Black Mask, Amazing, Astounding, Spicy Stories, Ace-High, Detective Magazine, Dare-Devil Aces. It was in these luridly-coloured publications, printed on the cheapest pulp paper, that the first gems began to appear. The one golden rule for writers of pulp fiction was to adhere to the art of storytelling. Each story had to have a beginning, an end, economically-etched characters, but plenty going on, both in terms of action and emotions. Pulp magazines were the TV of their day, plucking readers from drab lives and planting them firmly in thrilling make-believe, successors

This is a story of the most heart-rending of crimes — the kidnapping of a little child. First the author lets us see the crime itself. Then we watch the anguish of the parents as they discover their loss, the arrival of the ransom note, the payment of the money and all the cruel aftermaths of this cruelest of crimes

William P. McGivern, a popular and prolific fantasy and science fiction writer in the 1940s and 1950s (under his own name as well as the pseudonyms Gerald Vance and P.F. Costello), later achieved fame as a noir and hardboiled mystery author of such classics as “The Big Heat.” The William P. McGivern Fantasy Megapack collects 25 of his early fantasy stories

When May Laval, a hostess able to satisfy most appetites, decides to “go public” with her diaries, her good friend Dan Riordan hires public-relations expert Jake Harrison to defend his honor. But when May is found murdered, Jake’s suspicions of Riordan’s perfect alibi send him on a roller-coaster ride through Riordan’s murky past. And even Jake’s hard shell begins to crack as the secrets exposed tell more about “society” than any memoirs might reveal