Romantic Adventure Library #470
"Stealthily a Killer Comes" delivers a taut, noir-tinged thriller in Romantic Adventure Library #470 (1971), where a New York cop’s claim of self-defense unravels into a chilling web of deception. When his wife discovers he orchestrated the killing to cover up murder, she flees—only to become a target for the criminal forces he serves. A tense, character-driven tale of betrayal and danger, this issue stands out in the series for its sharp moral stakes and creeping suspense.
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A New York cop shoots a man and it is judged to be self-defense. Only his wife knows that he had set up everything to make it look like a shootout, but it was actually just murder. Disgusted, she leaves her husband. But the cop is working for underworld characters. They decide she is too much of a risk and must be killed.
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