Publisher's Synopsis
MAKE THE CORPSE WALK
Susan Hedder is up for a little excitement in her life, but gets so much more than she bargained for when she agrees to follow a gangster named Butch. She only takes the job because Joe Campbell talks her into it with a promise of quick cash. Joe works for millionaire Kester Weidmann. Weidmann's brother has just died, and Weidmann has gone a little crazy. They were very close--and very rich--and Weidmann wants to find a way to bring his brother back to life. Which is why he contacts Rollo, a crook who can make things happen. Once Rollo finds out that Weidmann is loaded, he agrees to help him out immediately. And thus Joe hires Susan to follow Butch, Rollo's right-hand-man, in order to protect Weidmann. If only Susan had realized what she was risking, because Butch wants Weidmann's money for himself, and doesn't care who he has to kill to get it.
NO BUSINESS OF MINE
American foreign correspondent Steve Harmas returns to post-WWII London to visit his old flame, Netta Scott, but quickly learns that Netta has just committed suicide. Harmas is so sure that Netta couldn't possibly have killed herself that he starts investigating, enlisting the aid of Scotland Yard Inspector Corridan. The first thing they discover is that Netta's body has disappeared from the morgue. Then Harmas is attacked outside her flat. Could her nosey neighbor, Julius Cole, be involved? He certainly seems to know more than he's telling the police. And then there's Madge Kennit, a neighbor who offers to trade information for a bottle of whisky. And what of Netta's sister, Anne, who also seems to have disappeared? Harmas and Corridan soon find themselves at odds as they both investigate a suicide that begins to look at lot more like murder.
