Dagger of Flesh

by Richard S. Prather (Author)

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Publisher Gold Medal Book
Condition Very Good
Language English
Published Year 1961
Book ID S1157
Format Paperback

HYPNOTIZED-TO KILL !!!
Something was bugging me. A sudden, overpowering urge to go somewhere, do something. I couldn’t fight it and I couldn’t figure it. It was crazy Like in a dream. Like I had no control over my brain.
Was it true that someone could be hypnotized without knowing it? Made to do something and never even remember?
Never even remember
That’s when it hit me. Why I’d lied to the cops about last night.
Because I couldn’t really remember.
MAYBE I DID KILL JAY ..

“Look at me, Mr. Logan … ”

Her voice was a throbbing contralto-deep and soft like the blackness of her hair.
I didn’t need the invitation. But it was very hard to keep my mind on business with my eyes wandering the way they did. She let the robe slip down and arched herself against the couch, extending one long smooth leg.
“I like to be looked at, Mr. Logan. That’s why I pose like this. I enjoy it. It makes me feel good.”
“Me too.” I grinned. She raised an arm lazily. “Come closer  . . Mark. It is Mark, isn’t it?”
“Yes.” I moved closer. I slid my hand under her waist and pulled her to me.
“Not yet.” She took my hand in hers and held it. “Not yet,” she whispered.
She leaned back and put her arms at her sides. Her eyes were closed, but she was smiling.
I sat staring at the strangely beautiful face, the curved, brazen whiteness of her body.
Suddenly she opened her eyes. “All right,” she said. “It’s all right now, Mark.”

When business owner and personal friend Jay Weather is murdered, all the evidence points to P.I. Mark Logan as the killer. Logan knows he didn’t do it…or does he? It is his .357 found next to the body, and he can’t remember where he was, or what he did the night of the murder. There is one thing Logan does know. Jay came to see him the day before he died, and his friend was clearly scared and confused. So scared, Jay had signed over his business to Logan for safe keeping, and so confused he was seeing imaginary green parrots, and having strange compulsions to do things completely out of character…like changing his will.

Suddenly Logan starts finding more frequent gaps in his memory, and uncharacteristic overpowering urges that he finds impossible to ignore. But that’s not all – now the police have discovered another corpse.

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