WHEN HAD ALL THE TROUBLE STARTED?

On that day, long ago, when Archie Baxley was assaulted by a tramp?

Or right after that, when Archie's best friend, P.T.Pride, beat him within an inch of his life? Or when Archie grew bitter and mean, and started to hit the bottle?

Or when he married Crystal, and swore he'd never let her forget what she was? Or did it start when the sheriff gave Archie the badge that made his drunken violence legal?

Published in Great Britain by Frederick Muller Ltd, in 1963 by arrangement with Fawcett Publications, Inc.
© 1961 by Fawcett Publications, Inc.

He was a young trooper on his first assignment to the police barracks, and he captured the murderer of an innocent young girl. But then his troubles began...

Trouble with Carl Podres, roadhouse proprietor...

Trouble with Amy Bell, glamorous night-club singer...

Trouble with someone who hated him enough to write anonymous letters to his superiors in an attempt to wreck his career.

Ben Benson began to write as a direct result of being seriously wounded in World War II.
On his disharge after 3 years in hospital the Red Cross presented him with a huge carton of detective magazine. He worked his way steadily through the stories until he reckoned he could write one himself. His maiden effort, written in 1947, was accepted by the first magazine he sent it to, and he hasn't had a failure since.

First published 1956
First issued in Fontana Books 1958