Bold Venture Press presents the second bare-knuckle thriller in the Jack Hagee series A killer stalks the streets of New York. The police call him "The Outliner." His first three victims were outlined in white chalk. The fourth in blue, the fifth in pink - with roses. Meanwhile, in Chinatown, a vicious street gang demands "tribute" from one of Jack Hagee's clients. Big mistake ... on their part, and maybe Hagee's, as well. C.J. Henderson was a virtuoso in the field of hardboiled fiction - and Jake Hagee's cases show him writing at his sharpest, toughest, and most cynical. Jack Hagee is a...

From the pulp era comes twenty-two hardboiled stories of hardboiled suspense. You'll meet embittered detectives, shifty conmen, and henpecked losers -- sad people trying to escape their dreary lives. Charles Boeckman wrote for pulps and slick magazines, while pursuing a full-time career as a musician. His jazz background figures into several stories, reaching a two-fisted crescendo. The stories in this anthology were originally published in various pulp magazines -- and now they appear together, wrapped in a breath-taking cover by Robert A. Maguire.

Can two avowed hoarders of comic books, paperbacks, hardcovers, movie memorabilia, etc., etc., make room in their lives for each other? A grizzled hobbyist of old paper magazines decides to gather collectors and vendors for a weekend of swapping tall tales and lurid artwork. Four decades later, another collector picks up the torch and stumbles. The power of love convinces him to trod on...but in which direction? Can two obsessive book lovers merge their inventory into one collection?