Mystery and Crime Various: Spicy Mystery Sampler. V1. 18 Feb 2012

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Spicy/Speed Mystery (Stories)
Spicy Mystery Stories was one of the notorious Spicy pulps published by Culture Publications in the late 1930s which concentrated on a simple formula - fast action stories laced with sex. It ran for nine years under that title before the forces of reform forced it to change to the rather more sedate Speed Mystery. The large number of reprints in the last couple years are apparently the result of an embezzlement scheme by two of the editors.

SHANGHAI SUE—STEVE FISHER

RED BAMBOO—JASON LYTTELL

The Sahara was the devil’s own heat—but in the land of the little white women lived new dangers, and new mystery on the quest of a fabulous jewel.

SATAN'S DAUGHTER—HOFRFMAN PRICE

She was so lovely, so bewitching — how could he know that she was the queen of demons who prowled by night and lured desert travelers to their doom?

THE MOON-GOD TAKES—ROBERT LESLIE BELLAM

This dancing girl was beautiful — and perhaps he loved her because she looked like the girl he had killed. But she wanted too much...the thing he must carve out of the gray stone she worshiped!