A walk on the wild side! In this series of collections of gritty Noir and Hardboiled stories, you’ll find some of the best writers of the craft writing in their prime

The Navy brass is satisfied when a yeoman, the prime suspect in the murder of beautiful, dedicated Navy nurse, dies, but Lieutenant Chuck Masters disagrees

When the first moon-bound rocket blasted off from the Earth’s space station in 1983, it was as ready for every eventuality as scientists and engineers could make it. But neither the crew nor the authorities were prepared for the last-minute switch in the ship’s complement that upset carefully planned replacement schedules. Instead of a highly trained Air Force Academy graduate as the fifth man in the pioneering crew, the inaugural rocket headed into space with teen-age Ted Baker, an Academy senior. Around a tragic misunderstanding, Richard Marsten has traced a tale of high excitement from the Earth’s gleaming satellite space station to the ragged surface of a hostile Moon. His story of how a teen-ager crash lands a crippled ship on the Moon, far from its base of supplies, is not only an unexcelled description of space flight but a tense personal drama of a young man who proves his worth to a hostile crew. A thousand-mile trek on fool across the face of the Moon, the discovery of organic matter on the planet’s airless surface, the slow depletion of irreplaceable supplies, the effect of the Sun on a planet that lacks atmosphere, stud this story of a strained relationship between stranded crew members with fascinating detail. Climaxed with a rocket blastoff that vindicates the judgment of one young earthling, ROCKET TO LUNA is as gripping a flight into space and the future as any contemporary author has written

When the irresistible force of a giant corporation like Titanic Shoe meets an immovable, but tottering, object like the respectable shoe firm of Julien Kahn, something's got to give — and something does, explosively, surprisingly. Here is an authentic, behind-the-scenes excursion into the high-fashion world of heels and vamps and into the private worlds of two men who crashed head on — one striving for personal power, the other for personal integrity. Jefferson McQuade comes to the Kahn factory as the representative of the new owners, with his own ideas about what is needed to put the factory on a firm footing. Raymond Griffin, who has worked his way up to head of Kahn’s Cost Department, doesn’t share the apprehension of those who fear a shake-up. For years Kahn has needed new blood, and he welcomes the smooth and affable McQuade. But McQuade's methods soon reveal him as a ruthless tyrant whose polished words can pit friend against friend, a man who is ready to demolish anyone and everyone who stands in his way, a man who sees horrifying violence as the answer to an outbreak on the factory floor. The last traces of doubt about McQuade are removed during Guild Week when, as the new shoe lines are shown to the entire industry, McQuade attempts to seduce Griffin’s girl. The long-smoldering warfare between the two men erupts into the open and provides the setting for a dramatic ending that will leave anyone who has ever stepped into the business world breathless and cheering. Here, secretly aspiring to someday sit in the Executive Suite, are the white-collar workers and production people — their jackets off, their sleeves rolled up, their nails neat and sharpened. In THE SPIKED HEEL, Richard Marsten has produced a dynamic and absorbing book that you and the people who work side-by-side with you will read and talk about for a long time to come. Of this we are certain. For THE SPIKED HEEL is not only an authentic portrayal of the fabulous fashion world of high-quality shoes. It is a gripping novel of the very real world inhabited by all men and women who make and use any of America’s products. Beside this any novel — past or future — on the world of business must seem as pale and wan as Little Women

A peaceful lake, a cabin in the country, and each other... It looked as though it was going to be an idyllic holiday for Phil Colby and his fiancée Anne. But then Anne disappears from her motel room, and Phil finds a red-haired hooker in her place... In a town where everyone from state trooper to the judge is on the take, Phil gets nowhere fast