Author Archive: Retro

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.

Heroic Officer 444 battles The Frog and his criminal gang for possession of Haverlyte, a powerful formula that, if it fell into the wrong hands, would give its owner enough power to control the world. And, taking no chances, The Frog sends his chief henchwoman, a seductive vamp named The Vulture, to tempt Officer 444 to stray from his sworn duty to save the world from The Frog’s nefarious plans.

Small-time showgirl, loved by two decent men, poses as a stripper to infiltrate a nightclub whose owner is believed responsible for her father’s murder.

In old Shanghai, two sisters, a prostitute and a singer, tried to escape from the local scoundrels with the help of a trumpet player and a newspaper seller.

A young girl new to the big city gets a job as a man’s companion. What she doesn’t know is that the man is a notorious gangster.

Makeshift gang carries off a theft of $2,000,000 and manages to baffle the police for three years.

Set in France in 1880. A series of murders is attributed to a Wolf Man.

Wealthy, heavily insured men are being murdered at an alarming rate. Scotland Yard investigates and finds clues that lead to a ring of blind men, led by a mysterious “reverend.”

After WW2, former RAF airman Clem Morgan joins a gang of black-market smugglers-thieves but when a robbery goes wrong, Clem is caught , framed for a policeman’s murder, and is sent to prison where he plots his escape and revenge..