Author Archive: Retro

A private detective is gets hired for two jobs: the first is to bet on a particular fighter during a fixed boxing match, and the second is to pose as a woman’s husband for an evening. Both jobs turn out to be not quite as simple as they appeared to be at first.

A police officer masquerades as a criminal to get information on a gang of car thieves.

The killing of Mayor Palmer is being placed on Paul Moody by fingerprint expert Jim Stover as Moody’s prints were found on the murder weapon. When reporter Brad Evans places doubt in Stover’s mind that the fingerprints were Moodys, he decides to investigate further with the help of the mayor’s daughter Carolyn.

Captain Drummond and his girlfriend want to marry but a hidden treasure in the house in which they want to celebrate their marriage is complicating the situation.

An urban wheeler-dealer gets involved in organized crime, corrupt city politics and graft while falling in-love with the fiancée of the newly elected mayor.

A truck driver stops on a rainy road at night to help a stranded motorist, but it turns out to be a ruse–he is attacked, knocked out and his truck stolen. Since he has a criminal record, the police immediately suspect he’s involved in the hijacking, and their suspicions are reinforced later when he is discovered–unknown to him–to be hauling stolen merchandise. He realizes he is being set up as a fall guy by the organization behind the truck hijackings, and he and a friend set out to determine who is trying to set him up, and why.

First screen version of the popular radio series, followed by two sequels.

An LAPD rookie tangles with state prison paroled convicts who plan to rob an armored payroll truck in Los Angeles.

Claire Underwood hires San Francisco private-detective Dennis O’Brien to purchase a saxophone case at an auction, and O’Brien is promptly slugged and the case is stolen by Larry Dunlap. O’Brien snoops around and learns that Claire and Dunlap are rivals in a smuggling racket, and he seizes Claire just as she is about to leave the country with the case and its stolen jewels. O’Brien then gets involved with the murder of Vicki Jason’s husband and gets slugged again and framed. With the aid of “Professor” Schickler, he proves his innocence when Vicki kills her co-conspirator lover, Edgar Spadely—another private-detective who had gotten O’Brien involved to begin with—and Vicki admits her own guilt in the murder of her husband.