Mourning Glory

It started with the name 'Emanuel Kadaver' and a New York address … both of which were written on one side of a five-hundred dollar bill. Intrigued, Larry Kent went along discover just what his mysterious benefactor wanted. Next thing he knew he was stranded fifteen hundred miles from home with two whole days missing from his memory.Who had dumped him on a lonely, humid island in the middle of the Louisiana swamplands? Aside from Kadaver, there were only two other suspects-a tawny-haired swamp girl named Becky, who longed to become a woman, and the mysterious Miss Baines, whose gloomy, run-down mansion was patrolled by dogs who had been trained not just to defend, but to kill.Only one thing was for sure-if Larry didn't clear himself of the neatest frame-up he'd ever encountered, he had an appointment with the electric chair … Over 400 Larry Kent novels and novelettes were published under the Larry Kent byline. The covers usually featured paintings of leggy, full-figured babes and sported such snappy (and often exclamation mark-endowed) titles as Kill Me a Little!, This Way, Sucker!, Cute Heat!, Dig Me a Dame! and Stand Up and Die! Add on the 150 or so radio shows, and we figure that Larry turns out to be one of the hardest working eyes around ... certainly it is the longest-running detective series in history!Piccadilly Publishing have chosen 25 Larry Kent novels to be made available for the first time digitally in the English language and feature the gorgeous original covers (themselves collectible)., with PP's own slant on them.