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Ozaki was born in Racine, Wisconsin to a Japanese father (Jingaro Ozaki, who later changed his name to Frank) and an American mother, Augusta Rathbun.
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Armchair fiction presents extra large paperback editions of the best in classic Mystery-Crime novels. Here’s another murder mystery, “A Dame Called Murder,” is by veteran whodunit author, Milton Ozaki. There was some kind of new racket in town, and private detective Max Keene decided it was in his own best interest to find out who the big boss was. Not that he didn’t care about breaking the back of an organized theft ring, but when one of the ring’s gorgeous young female operatives wound up dead in a sexually charged homicide and Max got fingered, it gave him an added “incentive” to bring the killer to justice. However, standing in the way was a seemingly endless maze of mis-turns and half-clues, all interwoven with a long parade of low-life characters. What Max Keene hadn’t expected, though, was to be smitten by the charms of two young showgirls—a calypso-dancing redhead and a cute blonde with a snake for a dancing partner. The big question was, could he keep them alive long enough to find out what they knew…
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Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels. The first thriller is Owen Dudley’s great tale, “Run if You Can.” Ed Dunlap put down the phone. His partner in the construction company had just called from Palm Oasis where he had gone to buy land with the last of their company cash. And his partner’s voice had been blurry with drink. Ed had to head for Palm Oasis himself when he heard that, even though it was a town he had sworn he’d never return to. For it held for him the taint of murder and the memory of an ex-wife’s bitchy treason. But Ed had to check up on his partner and their funds. But Palm Oasis didn’t want Ed around either. There was only one way they’d agree to let him stay—and that would be six feet under. “Run if You Can” is a non-stop suspense ride you won’t be able to put down. On the back end of this double novel is another hardboiled tale of murder, “The Scented Flesh” by well-known mystery writer, Milton K. Ozaki. Private eye Carl Good figured locating Sylvia Shepherd would be a routine matter, but everywhere he went he drew a blank. Until he went into a dive called The Shamrock, where they slipped him a mickey. Next morning, he woke up in a beautiful bedroom in bed with a beautiful blonde who, unfortunately, was dead as a mackerel, and the whole situation smelled like something out of Tobacco Road. Back in his office, a slippery guy handed Carl some photographs and a note. The photographs covered the bedroom scene, showing Carl Good with a knife in his hand, in bed with the murdered blonde. The note was a warning to forget Sylvia Shepherd. But forgetting the missing Sylvia was like waiting for the juice in the electric chair to be turned on—the frame was that perfect. With the help of his old shyster lawyer friend, Morrie Tannenbaum, Carl managed to stay at liberty to try and get out of the trap he was in—or bury himself.
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Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels. The first novel is “The Dove” by veteran mystery writer Milton K. Ozaki. Lana Markel was shockingly beautiful, clever, and rich. But she was in trouble, a sinister kind of trouble, and even though Carl Good was employed by her husband to watch her, he found himself completely seduced into working for her, too. At first it was an ordinary case of infidelity and divorce. Then, before he was aware of it, he was involved in the sly workings of one of Chicago’s great vice rackets. Before long he was mixed up in a double murder in which he became hopelessly entangled and convicted in the minds of the police. The only way he could extricate himself was to find out who this beautiful siren was and what strange game she was playing. But Lana was clever as well as beautiful… Here is a nail-biting mystery about a sinister vice corner of America—the finishing school for “call girls”, where young “talent” is recruited, tutored, coached, sent to modeling classes, and then sent out to hook the big trade. By the author of “The Scented Flesh.” The second novel is a true classic of nail-biting suspense, “The Glass Ladder” by well-known sci-fi and mystery writer, Paul W. Fairman. Rick Mason, a private eye with the lucrative Global Indemnity account, had a hunch that all hell would start popping when heist-artist Mike Duryea was released from the penitentiary after serving five years for the Rajah Emerald haul. Global had shelled out $75,000, the rock had never turned up, and now sundry trigger-happy characters were all itching for the fateful day. Though long missing, the giant emerald was now reaping a harvest of murder—starting with the mean death of a furtive, lonely stranger in a skid row rooming house. A corpse with no identity—except a bundle of clippings on the Rajah Emerald case. Rick took it from there. But the Rajah Emerald was an evil green eye, with death in its wake, and Rick had to witness two more sudden deaths before the coveted jewel came to light—in the cunning cache of a secretive and seemingly naive person who had lived in its power for five long years!
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Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels. The first novel is “The Deadly Pick-up” by one of the better mystery writers of the 1950s, Milton K. Ozaki. She was a clean-limbed, lemon fluff blonde standing there, waiting for a taxi. Gordon Banner was a lonely out-of-towner who happened to be driving by. The ominous threat of rain, plus a shortage of empty cabs, made the pick-up easy. Before long, he found himself inside her apartment. Flung upon the bed was the still warm body of the clean-limbed, lemon fluff blonde. She’d been strangled—strangled while he waited outside her door for her to change out of her ripped dress. Thus did Gordon Banner become the prime suspect in the murder of a girl he had known only a few short minutes. Swiftly paced and filled with raw, gritty, suspense, “The Deadly Pick-up” ranks among renown mystery author Milton Ozaki’s most spine-tingling tales. The second novel is “Killer Take All!” by another fine mystery writer, James O. Causey. Tony Pearson was a pro-golfer wannabe. He couldn’t cut it on the PGA tour. He couldn’t even cut it as an assistant club pro at a local country club. Then Max Baird came into his life. Max Baird, a known gangster with a reputation for dope smuggling and prostitution. But Baird was trying to clean up his act, and when he hired Pearson to be his club pro at his lavish golf course, it was just another small step in trying to make his operation look “legitimate.” But an unfaithful floozy of a wife, an unscrupulous business manager, and a fake Rembrandt all led Tony Pearson into a convoluted web of conspiracy and eventually…first degree murder, a crime for which Pearson had been neatly framed. Only a passionate ex-lover, an aging confidence man, and a sympathetic cop stood between Tony Pearson and the gas chamber in one of the hottest murder mysteries you’ll ever read…
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Ozaki was born in Racine, Wisconsin to a Japanese father (Jingaro Ozaki, who later changed his name to Frank) and an American mother, Augusta Rathbun.
He lost a leg as a young child. In addition to his work as a writer and journalist, he operated a beauty parlor (the Monsieur Meltoine beauty salon, in the Gold Coast section of Chicago). In the 1970s, he operated phony mail-order colleges, including the Colorado State Christian College and Hamilton State University, and he was also involved in a company marketing a device fraudulently claimed to increase gas mileage.
He died in Sparks, Nevada.
Ozaki also designed a dice game, Murder Dice, which was similar to Yahtzee and was based on the events in a murder trial.
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