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Men’s Adventure Quarterly No. 12  edited by Rovert Deis and Bill Cunningham

The Men’s Adventure Quarterly – Paperback – 161 pages – May 2025

That’s how it starts – a beautiful dame walks into a private eye’s life, and everything goes to to hell with more gut-wrenching twists and turns than a rollercoaster. Here’s some of the best stories taken from the men’s adventure magazines of yesteryear by some of the masters of the hardboiled P.I. genre. All collected into handsome volumes every quarter for your reading pleasure and display on your bookshelf.

It’s all here, the heists, the double-crosses, the henchmen and the hot clients. In the end it’s all murder!

In addition to all the stories of murder and mayhem, our 12th issue also features author JAMES REASONER revealing the best of the Cowboy P.I.’s; author PAUL BISHOP unmasking the best of the Sherlock Holmes clones; and pop culture journalist-author JOHN HARRISON exploring the best P.I.’s in fantastic films. Author DAVID AVALLONE offers up testimony on the work of his mystery author father Michael who is featured in this issue in our book bonus.

Also included is one of our MAQ Gal-lery features on the character of HONEY WEST by G. G. Fickling who had a life in paperback novels, television, action figures, board games and toys. Author DAVID SPENCER provides background on the novel tie-in work of Michael Avallone who added his hardboiled, two-fisted prose to the world of THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. by writing many of the paperback editions tied to the popular TV series.