Robert Colby

Howie was a millionaire and he and Andrea were planning to be married. But he never got to walk to the altar – he was murdered first!

When struggling actor Glenn Harley helps starlet Nancy Rhymer cover up the death of another actor, he finds himself caught in a web of blackmail, murder, and betrayal.

Burt Keating had been trying to make the acquaintance of his pretty red-headed neighbor but he wasn’t getting very far until the day she escaped from a strange roadside encounter. For when it turned out that murder had resulted from the affair, she threw herself hysterically into Burt&apos;s arms, pleading for his help. <P> It seems she had inherited a sealed box, whose contents were entirely unknown. Certain parties wanted that box badly. They had offered her a fortune – or sudden...

She went looking for excitement – and found violence and danger instead! A Wildside Crime Classic by the author of The Star Trap and The Captain Must Die! <p> "Bob Colby was more than just a &apos;one-hit wonder.&apos; He wrote several other respected novels in the 1950s and &apos;60s, including The Deadly Desire and The Secret of the Second Door (both Gold Medal, 1959) and dozens of short stories for Alfred Hitchcock and Mike Shayne… Do me a favor: hunt down one of his novels and...

"If you want a feel for the real Fifties in the form of a grim caper novel, this is your book. It&apos;s tight, deftly plotted and one of those hardboiled novels that is genuinely tough without showing off." – Ed Gorman<P> Greg Driscoll, a wealthy and respected businessman, has two cars, an upscale suburban home, a ten-year-old son off at summer camp, and a beautiful wife. And three ex-G.I.s recently released from Leavenworth want him dead. <P>Driscoll has been stockpiling cash...

Now that the killer was hunting him down, now that he was about to die, Neil wondered: Was Corinne worth dying for? She had lied to him, she had cheated him and been unfaithful to him. Now she had betrayed him. But Neil understood at last. He was as helpless against Corinne as he was against the bullets that were waiting for him. <P> A classic crime novel from a master of the genre!

The killers came for his money – of they would have his woman&apos;s life! A Wildside Crime Classic by the author of The Star Trap and The Captain Must Die! <p> "Bob Colby was more than just a &apos;one-hit wonder.&apos; He wrote several other respected novels in the 1950s and &apos;60s, including The Deadly Desire and The Secret of the Second Door (both Gold Medal, 1959) and dozens of short stories for Alfred Hitchcock and Mike Shayne… Do me a favor: hunt down one of his novels and...

En route to Miami, Scott Daniels comes to the aid of a stranded woman whose date stranded her at a road house. He offers to giver her a lift, and she accepts. a lift, but come across the wrecked car of the man who abandonned her. Valerie begged Scott to save her good name by salvaging her suitcase from the wreck before the cops could find it. But no sooner had he done so, then he learned that instead of being filled with pink unmentionables, it was loaded with green negotiables – hundreds of...

Vengeance! His name is Gil Ballard. At 31 he is six feet two inches tall and weighs 203 pounds, much of it muscle, but he is easygoing and has not been mad enough to bruise anyone for years. <P> Until now. <P> Because a few weeks ago a handful the mobsters put him in the hospital. Over nothing! A stupid dispute in a bar over a song on the juke box, and they beat Gil to within an inch of his life. <P> And now Gil is out of the hospital. He&apos;s looking for the men...

Playing With Dynamite <P> Tormented by a satin-skinned package of dynamite who offered him ecstasy unfettered by convention…Bedeviled by another woman who wanted a master…Given 12 hours to get out of town–And then framed for murder… <P> This was the grim situation faced by Todd Corwin shortly after he came to Longport seeking Julie Steadman&apos;s killer. <P> If he cleared out of town he was sure of safety. If he stayed, nothing was certain except more trouble with the...

Fun-crazy Kim Rumshaw refused to wall herself away from any available men just because she was engaged to Howard Massey. So when gangster Eddie Tarino invited her to play love games on his yacht, she was eager and willing to go. <P> Later Kim wa just as eager to forget the whole affair. But Tarino had other plans. And when Massey was beaten up and her aunt threatened, she turned to private detective Rod Striker for help. <P> Rod sent his curvaceous partner, Myra, as a decoy to...

For Ross Elliot, the summer held no promise. With his teaching duties over until fall, he found himself facing boredom, with time on his hands. Which was why he didn’t hesitate to involve himself in the affairs of one Barbara Erickson, ex-student and accused murderess. <P> As far as Elliot was concerned it simply wasn’t possible for one so young – and so lovely – to be capable of such a horrendous crime. And what if he was the only one who believed in her innocence? A couple of months...

Paul Norris, an out-of-work advertising executive, finds himself on a cross-country job tracking down a shipping crate. The crate holds something valuable – but exactly what, exactly, no one will say. In the process of finding the crate, Paul finds himself caught between shady characters, beautiful women…and more than a few double-crosses!

Love…or murder – all it takes is two…<P> "Bob Colby was more than just a &apos;one-hit wonder.&apos; He wrote several other respected novels in the 1950s and &apos;60s, including The Deadly Desire and The Secret of the Second Door (both Gold Medal, 1959) and dozens of short stories for Alfred Hitchcock and Mike Shayne… Do me a favor: hunt down one of his novels and give it a try." – Peter Enfantino <P> "He had a journalist&apos;s eye for his times. This was especially...

She played a dangerous game – with love, men, and money! A Wildside Crime Classic by the author of The Star Trap and The Captain Must Die! <p> "Bob Colby was more than just a &apos;one-hit wonder.&apos; He wrote several other respected novels in the 1950s and &apos;60s, including The Deadly Desire and The Secret of the Second Door (both Gold Medal, 1959) and dozens of short stories for Alfred Hitchcock and Mike Shayne… Do me a favor: hunt down one of his novels and give it a try." –...