James Bell – MRQE

Marty

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Marty, a butcher who lives in the Bronx with his mother is unmarried at 34. Good-natured but socially awkward he faces constant badgering from family and friends to get married but has reluctantly resigned himself to bachelorhood. Marty meets Clara, an unattractive school teacher, realising their emotional connection, he promises to call but family and friends try to convince him not to.

Dead Reckoning

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Paratroopers Captain ‘Rip’ Murdock and Sergeant Johnny Drake are mysteriously ordered to travel to Washington, DC. When Drake learns that he is to be awarded the Medal of Honor, he disappears before newspaper photographers can take his picture. Murdock follows the clues and tracks him down, where he learns Drake is dead. Further investigations reveal unexpected twists. Rip learns that Johnny had been accused of murder and sets out to find out whatever he can. He falls in love with Coral whose husband Johnny is supposed to have killed.

The Unknown

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

“The Unknown” was the final entry in Columbias I Love A Mystery series. A woman hires two detectives to keep her alive long enough to claim her inheritance.

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Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A newspaper editor deals with a particularly stressful day in the newsroom.

Huk!

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

After 14 years in the United States, Greg Dickson returns to his family’s plantation in the Philippines to settle his slain father’s estate. Boyhood friend Bart Rogers and his wife Cindy meet Greg’s plane at Manila, but he dismisses their warnings about the marauding Huks, fanatic guerrillas who are plundering nearby plantations. They repulse a Huk attack on the way to the plantation and are met by Stephen Rogers, Bart’s father and the village schoolteacher. With him is Philippine Army Major Balatbat who tells Greg that Kalak, leader of the Huks and murderer of Greg’s father, is also after him.

Tribute to a Bad Man

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Jeremy Rodock is a tough horse rancher who strings up rustlers soon as look at them. Fresh out of Pennsylvania, Steve Miller finds it hard to get used to Rodock’s ways, although he takes an immediate shine to his Greek girl Jocasta.

A Lawless Street

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A Marshal must face unpleasant facts about his past when he attempts to run a criminal gang out of town.

Teen-Age Crime Wave

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A delinquent girl involves an innocent friend in an armed robbery followed by a jail-break and hostage-taking with her equally delinquent boyfriend.

Black Tuesday

Sun, 07 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Vicious gangster Vincent Canelli pulls off a daring prison escape just moments before going to the electric chair, taking with him Peter Manning a bank robber and cop killer who was to die right after him. Taking several hostages along, they try to get their hands on the loot from Mannings robbery to finance their escape from the country.

About Mrs. Leslie

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A lonely, unhappy owner of a Beverly Hills boarding house reflects on her lonely, unhappy life and the lonely, unhappy man she once loved.