Ken Shannon #2

Ken Shannon, a crime-busting private detective, finds himself in hot water when a murder erupts at Delbar's department store during a routine suit-shopping trip—and he's framed for the theft of a priceless necklace in the chaos. With Detective Lieutenant Art Clyde forced to arrest him and the real culprits still on the loose, Shannon has to stay ahead of the law and dig into the store's secrets to clear his name and uncover who's really behind the "cut-rate" killing spree.

Detective Angles O'Day catches a break when an oil-rich Oklahoma client offers four hundred dollars to recover a wallet lost in the city—until he discovers the cash has already been dumped in a garbage truck headed for the city dump. O'Day and his partner Shaggy race to retrieve it before a pair of desperate crooks who've been hunting the same prize catch up to them in a wild nighttime shootout amid piles of refuse.

Ken Shannon, private investigator, finds himself trapped in a vicious extortion scheme when a glamorous woman named Lorena and the ruthless Mr. Esterfy force him to cover up a murder at the Aldia Laboratories—threatening to harm his assistant Dee Dee unless he cooperates. Framed with his own gun and pursued by the police, Shannon must outwit the criminals to save Dee Dee and expose their deadly plot before it's too late.

Ken Shannon takes what seems like an easy job when a glamorous singer named Lustra Wayne calls him in for a quick assignment—but when he meets her backstage at Boots Deacon's Club Cadenza, he discovers she wants him to help with a blackmail scheme involving a man threatening to destroy her engagement to millionaire Mort Dorgan. What should have been a simple case turns into something far darker when Ken finds a corpse, and he realizes he's been set up as the patsy for a murder, with his partner Dee Dee held hostage to force his cooperation.