Fire Storm; Last Will and Testament; Guaranteed to Fade

The Detective Book Club produced volumes of three crime novels from 1942 to 1999. Originally monthly, near the end they dwindled down to just a few per year. Many famous detective and crime novelists had their early works featured in DBC editions. Often, books were published in DBC editions before, or at the same time as they were published in mass market form. A little about our authors:

Robert L. Duncan: The pen name of the team of W. R. Duncan and James Robert Hall. Together they wrote eleven novels in the genres of mystery, thriller and general fiction. I have found no evidence that either did any solo work.

E. X. Ferrars: During her career, Ferrars published over 70 novels, mostly as stand-alone novels. Her longest series were the Virginia Freer and Andrew Basnett series, each with eight volumes. This is the first Virginia Freer novel.

George Bagby: A pen name of Aaron Marc Stein. An American writer of mystery and crime novels, Stein also wrote under the pen name of Hampton Stone. He wrote four detective series, the most significant one being the Inspector Schmidt series of 49 novels. All told, Stein published 109 novels. Stein died in 1985. This is the forty-second Inspector Schmidt novel.