Mike Shayne's Torrid Twelve

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The editor acknowledges with thanks the permission of the authors or their agents to reprint the stories in this collection: “Sunday’s Slaughter” by Jonathan Craig; “A Hood Is Born” by Richard Deming; “The Patsy” by Frank Kane; and “The Rites of Death” by Hal Ellson are reprinted by permission of the authors and the authors’ agent, Scott Meredith Literary Agency, Inc. “Water's Edge” by Robert Bloch and “The Toy-Head Man” by Franklin Gregory are used by permission of the authors and the authors’ agent, Harry Altshuler.

The twelve stories in this volume have been carefully chosen by Leo Margulies, publisher and editor of the Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine, as the best that appeared between its covers during the first four years of its publishing life… prior to 1960.

I agree wholeheartedly with Leo’s selections, and thus I will go farther out on a limb and say that I consider them to be as fine as any published in an American magazine during that four-year period.

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