Meet “Lora Lorne,” the love advice columnist for the Recorder newspaper… in actuality, gruff reporter Bill Brent. Written by Frederick C. Davis, Brent stumbled through 16 stories published between 1941 and 1946 in the pages of Dime Detective, the prestigious crime pulp second only to the legendary Black Mask in its impact on the genre. Collecting the next four stories in the series, all originally published in 1942–43.
Written by Frederick C. Davis; cover by Rafael DeSoto; illustrated by John Fleming Gould
The Complete Cases of Bill Brent, Volume 2 (The Dime Detective Library) contains the following stories:
- “Give a Man a Corpse He Can Hide”
- “More Deadly than the Male”
- “Home Sweet Homicide”
- “Clinic for Corpses”