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Down Among the Dead Men by Sterling, Stewart is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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New OCR, formatted, proofed, v1.5. Plenty of dead ones get dragged out of the dark, roily water that runs through the greatest city in the world. The Harbor Police take only routine notice. But when the cadaver comes in installments—a torso, a leg, an arm—that’s murder ... There are lots of murders, sure, but what made Lieutenant Steven Koski do a double-take on this particular butchery was the gadget that came with the torso. In its own frightful little way it was a weapon—the kind of weapon that kills a lot of people kind of quick. And Koski began to move—but fast. The murder marathon took him from a Coast Guard auxiliary vessel (cargo: one stunning blonde) to a waterfront dive. From a union leader’s hangout to an executive’s luxurious office. From a Chinese laundry to a ship being loaded with sudden death ... And all the way, a long thin shape, detestable and horrible, paced him. Koski drove himself frantically onward. He had to catch that thing—had to...

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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
Sterling, Stewart
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Published
1943
Language
EN
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Thriller, Fiction
Rating
3.94 / 5 (84 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-13

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