Gunmetal Kiss - 4 Hard Boiled Tales of Murder

PERIL PRESS presents:

Thrilling Detective, July 1940
KILLER'S CARNIVAL
A Complete Novelet
by Stewart Sterling
Author of “Coffin Candidate,” “The Devil’s at the Door,” etc
Gil Vine Suspects a Death-Defying Skate Troupe of Putting Murder On Ice!
Chapter 1: No Blunt Instrument
Chapter 2: Murder Weapon
Chapter 3: Something to Show You
Chapter 4: Crimson Snow
7800 Words

Detective Book Magazine, Winter, Sept.-Nov. 1948
NEVER COME MOURNING
by Stewart Sterling
“Every arsonist has a twisted mind,” said Chief Fire Marshal Pedley. But the tangled web of greed and lust that fashioned a monstrous funeral pyre in the Hotel Grolier was more than he could fathom . . .
6100 Words

Popular Detective, September 1949
GUNMETAL FINISH
by Stewart Sterling
Chapter 1: Junk Boat
Chapter 2: Holdup and Murder
Chapter 3: The Girl in the Case
Chapter 4: I’m Your Ears
7600 Words

Popular Detective, May, 1953
KISS-AND-KILL MURDERS
A complete novel.
by Stewart Sterling
“Produce or else!” the store president told Detective Don Marko. And so far, he had produced—the corpses of two girls!
12 Chapters
17,100 Words

This edition includes the illustrations from the stories as well as the covers to the pulp magazines that first published these stories.