003 The Trap - A well-known local politician is found unconscious next to a dead prostitute. For Inspector McGrath, the case seems to be solved. But after some inconsistencies appear, the Black Bat decides to investigate further. And then things get out of control.
002 The Wrong Victim - The Black Bat team is involved in a mysterious capital crime.
The incident also becomes more complicated as Inspector McGrath stubbornly tries to reveal the identity of the Black Bat.
001 Blood Money - A wealthy businessman dies in an accident and leaves behind a successful company and a mourning widow.
When the police investigate the accident, doubts begin to arise. Then there is another dead man.
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066 - Bodies mutilated beyond recognition are found in the city.
A little later, a woman who misses her husband shows up at Tony Quinn's house. She suspects one of the bodies could be her husband.
Tony Quinn and his entire crew begin the investigation. The case turns out to be extremely mysterious.
Then Butch is seriously injured and Carol disappears without a trace.
Translated from the American language by Alfons Winkelmann.
This case of the Black Bat has never been published in German before.
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A wealthy businessman dies in an accident. He leaves behind a thriving company and a grieving widow.
When the police investigate the accident, they suspect murder. And soon there will be another death.
065 - Garney Mace is murdered. Three men claim to have been eyewitnesses to the murder and accuse George Emerson of the crime. In desperation, Emerson calls on prosecutor Tony Quinn, with whom he has been friends for many years, for help.
Disguised as the Black Bat, Quinn tries to solve the mystery of the innocent murderer.
064 - A beautiful young girl is murdered. Only prosecutor Tony Quinn suspects that the young girl's murder is part of a murderous plot.
The Black Bat faces horror incarnate.
063 - Inspector McGrath calls Tony Quinn to the hospital to take the statement of a bank security guard who was seriously injured by a gunshot. Accordingly, the leader of the bank robbers was polite, so the injury was more likely an accident.
Shortly afterwards, another bank robbery follows the same pattern. Apparently it is the same perpetrator. This time the cashier is deliberately killed.
062 - A mafiosi murders and is seen. The witness is determined to act as a key witness against him. Blind prosecutor Tony Quinn becomes involved in the process and gets caught up in a whirlpool of criminal activity that threatens the entire city.
061 - Tony Quinn meets a criminal of diabolical genius.
It's a battle of wits.
060 - A psychologist has managed to get seven criminals sentenced to long sentences out of prison on probation. While the ex-prisoners appear to lead a middle-class life, they still commit a series of robberies. And these actions are just the preparation for the really big coup.
059 (Murder Town) - A wealthy early retiree is blackmailed and sees no other way out. He kills his blackmailer. The Lakeview police believe they have solved the crime and the pensioner is being sent to prison. But his body is soon found there.
Blind lawyer Tony Quinn begins to uncover Lakeview's dark secrets.
058 (The Dennison Documents) - Lawyer Paul Riker is in a party mood, but after a phone call he labels an envelope with documents, notifies his colleague Tony Quinn and shoots himself.
When Tony Quinn arrives at Riker's apartment, he finds the dead man, but not the envelope he had announced. The documents contained therein must be highly explosive, because soon assassination attempts will be made on Quinn.
057 (The Missing Million) - A man confesses to prosecutor Tony Quinn of illegally taking possession of a million dollars. Quinn doubts the man's story. Then his corpse is reported to him. Murdered by the blow of a machete.
It remains strange that the allegedly embezzled million is nowhere to be found.
056 (Murder's Playground) - Youth gangs make Chicago unsafe. Robberies and burglaries are on their account. In addition, the young people are at war with each other. Like a wave, the brutality continues to grow. Until a policeman is shot.
Tony Quinn investigates in his mask as a black bat and comes across incredible things.
055 (The Riddle of the Dead Man's Bequest) - Lawyer Tony Quinn is called to a dying man. It's millionaire Perry Wade. A few hours later, the Foley couple is found dead. Apparently, the man, who is also a lawyer, first shot his young wife and then himself.
Tony Quinn soon believes that there is a connection between the dead.
054 - Tony Quinn, the blind prosecutor, intervenes in a mysterious murder case under the protection of the mask of the dreaded bat and uncovers an explosive conspiracy.
053 - Blind prosecutor Tony Quinn is assigned to represent the prosecution in a foreign city against a man who is hated by many citizens of this city and who is accused of murder. When Quinn speaks to the accused, he doubts his guilt, despite all the evidence pointing against the man.
As a prosecutor, Quinn has to put the man in the electric chair, and as a black bat, he does everything in his power to prove the accused's innocence.
052 - A death threat hangs over a family. The main witness for the prosecution fears that he and his family will be murdered if he reveals what he saw to the judge.
Tony Quinn tries to solve the riddle in the mask of the Black Bat.
050 (Inheritance of Murder) - A homeowner is shot dead in a burglary. The perpetrator, a respectable young man, is about to have a successful professional career. The Black Bat wonders why this excellent student became a criminal.
049 (The Coiled Serpent) - A man is dying, but suddenly he's better. The recovery progresses, but then he is murdered.
In the mask of the Black Bat, Tony Quinn faces one of the most dangerous cases of his career.
But then a witness comes in, an old lady. However, she only wants to reveal the name of the killer to Quinn on one condition; that Quinn bring order in Barrtown, the town her father founded.
It will be a dangerous journey to the city of crime.
047 - A brilliant criminal meticulously prepared the coup of his life. Anyone who stands in the way of his goal, he kills.
For blind lawyer Tony Quinn, a mysterious case begins. He hunts the murderer with the head of Janus.
046 (Dead Man's Plunder) - In Chicago, the wife of a criminal who has been sentenced to death and executed is murdered. Theodore Slater, who intended to marry the woman, is suspected of the crime. Slater is arrested and desperately declares his innocence, but he has no alibi. His explanations are implausible. Only attorney Tony Quinn believes him. He tries to prove Slater's innocence and prevent his execution. The real culprit has to be found. A race against time begins for the black bat.
The black bat embarks on a cruel battle. For the first time not in familiar Chicago, but in unfamiliar territory.
043 (The Crime To Come) - A traveler is staying in a third-rate hotel in Chicago. Inadvertently he witnesses a conversation between two criminals who are planning an unbelievable crime. He reports the incident to the police, but is not believed. So he seeks attorney Tony Quinn and is murdered a little later. Tony Quinn immediately picks up the dangerous lead out of nowhere.
042 (With Malice Aforethought) - Special District Attorney Tony Quinn, known for his impeccable character and as a staunch advocate for justice, is charged with sending an innocent man to the electric chair. The prosecutor's career seems to have ended.
Only the Black Bat can help.
041 (The Survivor Murders) - Six people survive a plane crash. Two of them were murdered shortly afterwards, while the others live in constant fear of death. Who wants to kill them? What's the motive?
040 (The Man Behind Murder) - A woman comes to the blind prosecutor Tony Quinn and makes an unusual request.
In the mask of the black bat, Quinn goes on a search for clues and meets an opponent who operates from behind the scenes.
039 (Blind Man's Bluff) - Matt Bradley is pronounced dead. His fortune is divided, the heirs are happy. But then a man appears who claims to be Matt Bradley. His face is mutilated, no one believes him.
The black Bat falls into an unbelievable case.
Prosecutor Tony Quinn is investigating this case and comes across incredible facts.
Quinn's research startles local politicians. Too late he realizes that there are unscrupulous murderers in the exemplary honest men of the city administration.
After more murders occur, Tony Quinn realizes that this case has a sensitive background.
033 - A judge announces revelations at a press conference. He is fatally shot. Tony Quinn is a witness to the attack. In the mask of the black bat, he tries to solve the murder.
032 - In Chicago a man who calls himself the mystic founds a school for special spiritual exercises. At the same time, brutal robberies are committed at parties in the exclusive society. Prosecutor Tony Quinn looks for the perpetrators in the mask of the Black Bat and experiences a horrific surprise.
031 - The local police chief is shot dead by a police student. The background seems explosive, so the governor, who is about to be re-elected, asks Tony Quinn for help. Quinn investigates as a prosecutor during the day, but murderers in uniform lie in wait for him at night.
030 (Markets Of Treason) - Tony Quinn takes on the most dangerous criminals in his career so far. A gang of smugglers is changing all of US freight.
029 - At the Chicago Dock Workers' Union, things get out of hand. When Thomas McFarlane finds out who pulls the strings there, he is blown up in his car. The black bat investigates in a swamp of corruption and violence.
028 (Guardian in Black) - Lloyd North is innocently imprisoned, released and penniless on the street. Someone sends him on a scary odyssey, at the end of which a well-known judge is found dead.
Captain McGrath arrests Lloyd. Tony Quinn agrees to defend the young man. But the mysterious story harbors further murders.
027 - The mysterious death that strikes the Marquette forests threatens innumerable innocent victims and points to a diabolical fifth pillar plan that Tony Quinn and his helpers must uncover.
026 - A submarine emerges from the waters off the American Atlantic coast. The passengers, five German spies, go ashore. They were commissioned to bring death, fear and chaos to the United States.
025 - Harvey Lansing, who was falsely sentenced to life imprisonment for murder, flees to avenge his tormentors.
A war-tearing formula for the government must be protected from the Nazi spies.
What has the chemist Weston, who seems to have succumbed to madness and in the sanatorium of the dodgy Japanese doctor Kroo have to do with it?
The black bat intervenes in the action.
024 - A raid on the nocturnal garden party of industrialist Paul Anderson. The guests are robbed, two men are murdered. Tony Quinn suspects the Nazi spy network is behind the raid.
Butch, Quinn's faithful helper, gets involved in the gang. How can the Black Bat expose the devilish backers whose goal it is to turn war luck in favor of the Axis powers?
023 - The US has entered the war. A spy ring of Nazis infiltrates and sabotages the war effort, sinks ships on the high seas. The trail leads to Florida. Can the Black Bat expose the head of the spies?
022 (The Murder Prophet, 1942) - A mysterious column in a reputable newspaper threatens to destroy the reputation of the paper. It announces murders that are actually committed shortly thereafter.
Who is responsible for the column? Who for the murders? And what is the motive? A tricky case with numerous suspects, but apparently without a motive.
021 (The Faceless Satan) - Blind lawyer Tony Quinn takes over the defense of his friend, the Honorable Professor Carter, even if all the evidence against the scientist speak. It looks as if Carter has murdered his young colleague Hanley in cold blood to claim his lucrative invention for himself. As Quinn and his colleagues discover, the case becomes more and more bizarre and dangerous - voices from nowhere, a mysterious stranger with no face and an adversary who seems to have come straight from hell.
The Black Bat has to intervene, but can she personally take on the devil?
020 (Shadow of Evil) - A mysterious man who only appears as a shadow recruits former criminals, each an absolute expert in his field, to build the largest organization the New York Underworld has ever known. Of his enemies, traitors and dropouts, he leaves only a pile of bones. The police are powerless. And then Butch and Tony Quinn fall to the power of this shadow man.
019 (The Blackout Murders) - Unknown murders with the help of a terrible machine without anyone being able to stop it. The inventor of this machine is kidnapped, and his daughter needs the help of both Tony Quinn and the Black Bat.
But who is the perpetrator in this confusion, and who is the victim?
018 (The Eyes Of The Blind) - Criminals blind innocent people with a bright light. What is behind it? When Tony Quinn is exposed to the blinding light, it means death to the Black Bat. In one way or another...
017 (The Voice of Doom) - A mysterious voice that calls itself "the voice of justice" and only communicates via a radio claims to support the police in the crime hunt. But is that really his goal? And why are exposed crooks putting an end to their lives even before the police find them?
016 (The Black Bat's Invisible Enemy) - A bank is attacked but the thief and prey seem to have vanished. A jeweler is robbed but a far and wide search reveals no culprit. A valuable tiara disappears in a fully occupied auction house.
Captain McGrath questions his own sanity and goes against his inner conviction to ask for the help of the Black Bat.
015 - Three brutal crimes happen almost simultaneously in Chicago. Tony Quinn is convinced that there is a connection between the three events. But all this is just the prelude to an unprecedented and gruesome series of crimes that Chicago has never experienced.
014 (The Black Bat and the Red Menace) - In the harbor quarter, strikes are being struck, ships are sunk on the high seas, sailors are murdered in cold blood.
Who is behind these gruesome deeds? The Black Bat and his team investigates.
013 (The Black Bat's Justice) - McGrath is desperate. The raids on jewelers are piling up. When a valuable diamond shipment from Europe is stolen and several people mysteriously die, he asks the Black Bat for help. But can he trust him?
012 (The Black Bat's Dragon Trail) - Several bankers involved in buying a treasure from the Chinese government are being blackmailed by a mysterious creature in a dragon mask.
011 (The Black Bat and the Trojan Horse) - The Second World War is raging in Europe. Hitler subjugated much of Europe and now threatens the United States. By chance, Tony Quinn encounters a mysterious organization that wants to bring death and destruction across the country.
010 (The Black Bat's Triumph) - An unusual series of burglaries shook the upscale circles of Chicago. It is noticeable that all burglars already know when the police will appear at the scene. And that everyone has a hump ...
009 (The Black Bat's Flame Trail) - Deadly fires charge the Black Bat for battle. And Tony Quinn puts fear and terror in the underworld.
008 (The Black Bat's Crusade) - Tony Quinn tries to uncover the mysteries of a devilish voodoo cult to reveal mysterious crimes by a powerful criminal gang.
007 (The Black Bat's Spy Trail) - In his relentless fight against murder and espionage, the nocturnal avenger goes to the Valley of Death and faces a hopeless struggle against brutal traitors.
006 (The Black Bat's Challenge) - Chicago is hell. Masses of beggars and cripples flood the streets of the city. Someone has organized the dregs of society. Crime spreads like a tidal wave.
005 - Do the ghosts of the murdered kill in Chicago? The headline in the afternoon edition of the Michigan News says so. The Lakefront Trail golf course becomes a playground for monsters. The Black Bat takes up the fight.
004 - A valuable lighter disappears. Not unusual, but Lieutenant McGrath is involving blind prosecutor Tony Quinn into the search. The Black Bat makes a good impression on the apparently played-out game - and falls into a bizarre web of greed, hatred and death.
The team around Tony Quinn gets caught between the fronts of a brutal mafia clan.
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003 (The Black Bat Strikes Again) - In an illegal exhumation, three men are shot, including a young district attorney. Lieutenant McGrath suspects the Black Bat and starts a merciless hunt for the masked vigilante.
Anthony Quinn needs help, but his friend and assistant Silk is in deep water, tied with heavy iron chains, in the waters of Lake Michigan.
When a friend of Tony Quinn asks the former prosecutor for help and shortly afterwards apparently commits suicide, the Black Bat attacks. But the dark hunter gets involved with a relentless criminal gang. Carol Baldwin is abducted and Tony Quinn finds himself in a stone bar, from which escape seems impossible.
The Night of the Black Bat is a nostalgia crime series that earns its name. You get everything you would expect: blondes, sinister criminals, vicious gangsters and a brave, slightly broken hero. To avoid becoming predictable, there are many turns and false leads to keep you on the edge of your seat. Creative murder methods, which may appear antiquated to today's readers, make for a special reading experience.
001 (Brand Of The Black Bat) - Tony Quinn is a well-known and feared prosecutor when a brutal attack cripples him during a court ruling. He's blind. In an instant, his life has changed.
Months later, a mysterious and beautiful woman promises to cure Tony Quinn, but with a condition. Meanwhile, the underworld boss Snate, who is also responsible for Quinn's blindness, expands his reign in Chicago.
Tony Quinn, after a daring operation as the Black Bat, forms a powerful team around him and prepares to fight crime.
The cult series from the USA! Previously unpublished in Germany!
The novel not only strikes at the heart of the 'nostalgic' or Bat fans, but fans of crime fiction will also get their money's worth from this exciting novel!
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