Defense attorney Clarence Darrow Mort, an unkempt habitué of seedy bars, was known familiarly, if not affectionately, as “Corpus Delicti” Mort. A mainstay of the page of mid-1940s issues of Dime Detective magazine, Mort was yet another of the quirky characters which editor Ken White avidly placed in his hard-boiled pulp magazine. This collection contains the first half of the C.D. Mort stores, all by Julius Long: “C.D. for Corpus Delicti,” “No Minimum for Murder,” “Loaded for Murder,” “Corpus Delicti de Luxe,” “Mostly for Murder,” and “Murder Under Foot.”
Written by Julius Long; cover by Rafael DeSoto; illustrated by Joseph Szokoli
The Complete Cases of Corpus Delicti Mort, Volume 1 (The Dime Detective Library) by Julius Long contains the following stories:
- “C.D. for Corpus Delicti”
- “No Minimum for Murder”
- “Loaded for Murder”
- “Corpus Delicti de Luxe”
- “Mostly for Murder”
- “Murder Under Foot”