Phantom Books No. 508. Paperback Original (1952). Digest size. Uncredited Cover Art
“Swamp Kill” by Whit Harrison (Harry Whittington)
“Cold Mad Men . . . Thrill-Seeking Women . . . And Brutal Murder In The Florida Swampland!”
From inside the front cover:
It was stolen money . . . Dirty money . . . A half million dollars’ worth . . . And only one man knew where it was hidden . . . Deep in the heart of Florida’s swampland. Three people wanted it . . . Bart Chesley, who was a big-time crime boss . . . Clarice, who was Chesley’s mistress . . . And Jim Thompson, a strong boy who had worked his way up in the rackets. Jim knew where the money was cached – and was not sharing the secret . . . Even if he had to kill off every one of Chesley’s hired hoods – and Chesley, too . . . Because Jim had plans which included a gorgeous brunette who was anxious to help spend that half million. But greed spreads its nasty tentacles in peculiar ways . . . So four men die in the barren swamps and the dirty, sordid money is carted off by the most innocent suspect of them all!
From the back cover:
“There was only one thing to do now. Get Evie out of my mind. And I’d do it. There was half a million waiting in that black river for me. I’d have plenty of women. I’d have everything I wanted. I lit a cigarette and looked around me, shivering. It was black dark in the scrub now. Not even the lights of the hotel penetrated up here . . . Loneliness went through me on the chill of the rising wind . . . Evie’s scream broke the forbidding silence, and I was running along the path after her before the first scream died out and the second one began. Screams of terror and pain. I ran blindly, without even thinking of what I was running into . . .”
This is the ninth 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. 508. Paperback Original (1952). Digest size. Uncredited Cover Art
“Swamp Kill” by Whit Harrison (Harry Whittington)
“Cold Mad Men . . . Thrill-Seeking Women . . . And Brutal Murder In The Florida Swampland!”
From inside the front cover:
It was stolen money . . . Dirty money . . . A half million dollars’ worth . . . And only one man knew where it was hidden . . . Deep in the heart of Florida’s swampland. Three people wanted it . . . Bart Chesley, who was a big-time crime boss . . . Clarice, who was Chesley’s mistress . . . And Jim Thompson, a strong boy who had worked his way up in the rackets. Jim knew where the money was cached – and was not sharing the secret . . . Even if he had to kill off every one of Chesley’s hired hoods – and Chesley, too . . . Because Jim had plans which included a gorgeous brunette who was anxious to help spend that half million. But greed spreads its nasty tentacles in peculiar ways . . . So four men die in the barren swamps and the dirty, sordid money is carted off by the most innocent suspect of them all!
From the back cover:
“There was only one thing to do now. Get Evie out of my mind. And I’d do it. There was half a million waiting in that black river for me. I’d have plenty of women. I’d have everything I wanted. I lit a cigarette and looked around me, shivering. It was black dark in the scrub now. Not even the lights of the hotel penetrated up here . . . Loneliness went through me on the chill of the rising wind . . . Evie’s scream broke the forbidding silence, and I was running along the path after her before the first scream died out and the second one began. Screams of terror and pain. I ran blindly, without even thinking of what I was running into . . .”
This is the ninth 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.