Cline wrote three pseudonymous novels for the pulp magazine. All three are thrillers. Cline didn't think much of them, having tossed them off very quickly in the aim of getting money to pay the fine that went along with his manslaughter plea and jail time, and to be able to keep his rural Connecticut home. Yet as pulp thrillers the three novels do have attractions. The first of these three, The Cult Murders, has just been reprinted. Copies are available at Amazon US trade paperback and Kindle ebook, at Amazon UK trade paperback and Kindle ebook, and at other Amazon sites. The Cult Murders concerns a Devil worshiping cult set up to fleece rich women of their fortunes. Originally serialized in 1928, this is the first publication in book form.
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