Mike Shayne's Torrid Twelve

Acknowledgments

The editor acknowledges with thanks the permission of the authors or their agents to reprint the stories in this collection: “Sunday’s Slaughter” by Jonathan Craig; “A Hood Is Born” by Richard Deming; “The Patsy” by Frank Kane; and “The Rites of Death” by Hal Ellson are reprinted by permission of the authors and the authors’ agent, Scott Meredith Literary Agency, Inc. “Water's Edge” by Robert Bloch and “The Toy-Head Man” by Franklin Gregory are used by permission of the authors and the authors’ agent, Harry Altshuler.