The Consummata
by Mickey Spillane | 
Murder is My Business
by Brett Halliday | 
Night Walker
by Donald Hamilton | 
Songs of Innocence
by Richard Aleas | 
Slide
by Ken Bruen | 
Fright
by Cornell Woolrich | 
The Gutter and the Grave
by Ed McBain | 
Fake I.D.
by Jason Starr | 
The Murderer Vine
by Shepard Rifkin | 
Quarry in the Black
by Max Allan Collins | 
The Vengeful Virgin
by Gil Brewer | 
Fade To Blonde
by Max Phillips | 
Quarry in the Middle
by Max Allan Collins | 
Little Girl Lost
by Richard Aleas | 
Two For The Money
by Max Allan Collins | 
A Narrow Return
by Faith Martin | 
Scarred for Life
by Kerry Wilkinson | 
Two-Faced
by Mandasue Heller |
Tainted Lives
by Mandasue Heller | 
Shella
by Andrew Vachss |
Adam Jordan wrote the best and worst articles of his journalistic career on the same day. The worst was bad enough to get him fired - but the best landed him a new job, penning lurid articles for Real Detective magazine, one of the last of the true-crime pulps. Only the case they've got him working on, involving a beauty pageant contestant found dead on an Atlantic City beach, is one some very powerful men would rather see covered up than covered. And if Adam keeps digging, he may find he's digging his own grave...