The Pick-up order was out: Get Johnny Merak, dead or alive . . . .
Publisher: Badger Books
Number: Mystery Series No. 3
Publishing Year: 1956
Printing: First
Cover Price: 2'-
Cover Artist: Ray Theobald
Introducing
Blood on My Shoulder
by
A. J. MERAK
Johnny Merak was determined to get Maxie Temple, who'd framed him for a three-year-stretch in San Quentin. But the Big Men of the Los Angeles Underworld wanted both Temple and Johnny Merak and decided that by killing Temple they could do both with the same shot.
But Merak wasn't having any of the deal and when Dawn Grahame showed up, he was more than ready to take on the whole of the Organisation. Bit first he had to meet the suspects. the unknown hoodlum who knew too much. Madden who might have been the killer and his girl-friend who had to be fed with heroin to keep her from talking to the wrong people.
Finally there were Clancy Snow and Dutch McKnight, the bosses of the Underworld who sat like black spiders in the web of treachery and vice that made up the Dark Side of Los Angeles.
And at the end of the play, when the chips were down and all the cards on the table. Death stepped in to reap the winnings.
