Phantom Books No. 511 Paperback Original (1952). Digest size. Cover Art by George Gross
“Violent Night” by Whit Harrison (Harry Whittington)
A Dead Girl . . . A Hired Killer . . . And A Savage Manhunt!
From the back cover:
WHEN DEATH IS STARING AT YOU . . .
“O’Brian headed towards the front exit. He slowed, thinking. This trip was going to be it . . . The big moment. The showdown . . . The killer would be loose by now . . . He would be lurking out there in the deepest dark before dawn, waiting. That was fine. O’Brian was ready for him . . . Grimly he waved at the desk sergeant and started out of the station. Somebody was out there in the darkness, watching him . . . He tried to tell himself that he was wrong. But he knew better. When death is staring at you, you can feel its eyes . . . He kept his hand on the gun in his pocket . . .”
O’Brian wasn’t a shooting cop. He hated the thought of killing, but even worse than that he hated the men who had brutally murdered a sixteen-year-old girl. So, for the first time in his life, O’Brian set out to kill – without a troubled conscience . . . .
This is the 12th book in the Phantom Book Series published in the USA from 1951-52. The number of Phantom books published in the USA is 14, all original hard-boiled crime stories. Australia also had a Phantom Book Series patterned after the USA series. The Australian series ran much longer and encompassed over 300 titles.
Phantom Books No. 511 Paperback Original (1952). Digest size. Cover Art by George Gross
“Violent Night” by Whit Harrison (Harry Whittington)
A Dead Girl . . . A Hired Killer . . . And A Savage Manhunt!
From the back cover:
WHEN DEATH IS STARING AT YOU . . .
“O’Brian headed towards the front exit. He slowed, thinking. This trip was going to be it . . . The big moment. The showdown . . . The killer would be loose by now . . . He would be lurking out there in the deepest dark before dawn, waiting. That was fine. O’Brian was ready for him . . . Grimly he waved at the desk sergeant and started out of the station. Somebody was out there in the darkness, watching him . . . He tried to tell himself that he was wrong. But he knew better. When death is staring at you, you can feel its eyes . . . He kept his hand on the gun in his pocket . . .”
O’Brian wasn’t a shooting cop. He hated the thought of killing, but even worse than that he hated the men who had brutally murdered a sixteen-year-old girl. So, for the first time in his life, O’Brian set out to kill – without a troubled conscience . . . .
This is the 12th book in the Phantom Book Series published in the USA from 1951-52. The number of Phantom books published in the USA is 14, all original hard-boiled crime stories. Australia also had a Phantom Book Series patterned after the USA series. The Australian series ran much longer and encompassed over 300 titles.