English Knife

English Knife – Four Stories: A kidnapping for love, a ship full of Nazi spies, a robbery/homicide and a man who snapped. A full line-up of crime.

For No Ransom (1940)
Fleischer had laid his plans with consummate skill, and the kidnapping went through without a hitch. Only the accident of a voice heard over the radio told Phil where his sweetheart was

The 15th Pocket (1936)
In fourteen of the dead man’s pockets there was something. What had the lower vest pocket held? Handrahan knows that one of the three women in the case holds the secret

Don’t Do It, Mister! (1943)
He’d married Eleanor because she was so dumb! He’d really wanted a dumb wife. And now for that same reason he wanted to murder her!

The English Knife (1942)
Perhaps it was because of a girl that the detective agreed to go halfway around the world for an old lady. But it was grim Nazi humor that gave him his chance to save not only his sweetheart but dozens of other victims