Phantom Books No. 507. Paperback Original (1951). Digest size. Uncredited Cover Art
“Hunt the Killer” by Day Keene (Gunard Hjertstedt)
“As Exciting A Suspense Story As You Will Ever Read!”
From inside the front cover:
It’s no fun to sit in jail – yearning for your wife, longing for almost any woman, and dreaming of a way to avenge yourself against an unknown partner-in-crime who disappeared when the law closed in on you. But those were the thoughts that plagued Charlie White and made prison a living Hell for him . . . But soon these painful reminders would be in the past. He would serve his time and be free once again – free to find his wife and to start a new, happy life . . . Free to go back to his fishing boat – without the smuggling sideline. No more wild nights with lush, warm-blooded Latin women, no more carousing in Habana, no more easy money for him . . . But he was wrong again – for outside of those prison walls there lurked desperate men – and one diabolic killer who had Charlie White slated for a return trip to the pen – for murder!
From the back cover:
WANTED FOR MURDER!
“Night was long in coming. When it did come, I crawled out of the swamp and made my way, cautiously, back to the shore. No one tried to stop me . . . I walked back to the house and sat on the steps. I’d been all right while it was still daylight. Now I was beginning to panic, to start at sounds. I wasn’t afraid of the dark. I was afraid of what might come out of it . . . Ken knew I was on the island. Alone. For some reason Ken hated me. For some reason he’d made the manhunt personal. Was it because of Beth? Or was there another reason? But of one thing I was sure . . . Ken wanted to empty his gun in my guts!”
This is the eighth 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. 507. Paperback Original (1951). Digest size. Uncredited Cover Art
“Hunt the Killer” by Day Keene (Gunard Hjertstedt)
“As Exciting A Suspense Story As You Will Ever Read!”
From inside the front cover:
It’s no fun to sit in jail – yearning for your wife, longing for almost any woman, and dreaming of a way to avenge yourself against an unknown partner-in-crime who disappeared when the law closed in on you. But those were the thoughts that plagued Charlie White and made prison a living Hell for him . . . But soon these painful reminders would be in the past. He would serve his time and be free once again – free to find his wife and to start a new, happy life . . . Free to go back to his fishing boat – without the smuggling sideline. No more wild nights with lush, warm-blooded Latin women, no more carousing in Habana, no more easy money for him . . . But he was wrong again – for outside of those prison walls there lurked desperate men – and one diabolic killer who had Charlie White slated for a return trip to the pen – for murder!
From the back cover:
WANTED FOR MURDER!
“Night was long in coming. When it did come, I crawled out of the swamp and made my way, cautiously, back to the shore. No one tried to stop me . . . I walked back to the house and sat on the steps. I’d been all right while it was still daylight. Now I was beginning to panic, to start at sounds. I wasn’t afraid of the dark. I was afraid of what might come out of it . . . Ken knew I was on the island. Alone. For some reason Ken hated me. For some reason he’d made the manhunt personal. Was it because of Beth? Or was there another reason? But of one thing I was sure . . . Ken wanted to empty his gun in my guts!”
This is the eighth 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.