#1:  "The Case of the Black Black Hearse" by Frederic Freyer

 
Brief Synopsis: A Hollywood film company on location in France encounters a  countess with a million dollars in German loot with the key to her own murder and a strange Spanish hearse that seems to be trailing them.














#2:  "Send Another Hearse" by Harold Q. Masur 


Brief Synopsis: A struggling literary agency sells a book to the studios for $50K, but one of the partners makes off with the money and lawyer Scott Jordan (Perry Mason with a .38) is brought in to solve this mystery, as more obstacles arise to keep this scandalous book from ever becoming a film. 











#3: "Hearse Class Male" by Frank Kane


Brief Synopsis: Action takes place in New York and a murder in a second run movie house. Johnny Liddell is the P.I. to break this case.












#4:  "The Convertible Hearse" by Bill Gault


Brief Synopsis: Brock "The Rock" Callahan is a football pro turned private eye in a sizzling story of Southern California's hot car racket, playboys  and hoods, cops and killers, and even more beautiful women that even "The Rock" can handle... but he's willing to try.










#5: "My Kingdom For a Hearse" by Craig Rice


Brief Synopsis: The world's most gorgeous model, Delora Deanne, is actually five different women (yes, it's more complicated than Hitchcock's Vertigo). And when her corpse turns up, criminal lawyer John J. Malone has to figure out who wanted all five of her dead.












#6: "The Trojan Hearse" by Richard S. Prather
 

Brief synopsis: What's a top talent agency doing representing a west coast mafia guy like Joe Rice? That's what P.I. Shell Scott attempts to answer as they attempt to murder him for snooping around.  












#7:  "A Hearse of Another Color" by M.E. Chaber


Brief synopsis: Typically in pulp novels you have a P.I. or a lawyer working the case, well not with Milo March, he is an insurance investigator that is hot on the heels of a dead blonde and a criminal undertaker.
















#8: "Book A Hearse Now" by Jeff Bogar


Brief synopsis: Michael Farley- Private Detective gets mixed up with broads and bad guys in this nice little pulp gem.














#9: "The Zebra-Striped Hearse" by Ross Macdonald



Brief synopsis: Burke Damis was an arrogant artist and playboy trying to get his hooks into a half-million dollars in the beautiful form of a shapely heiress, Harriet Blackwell, only detective Lew Archer is hired by the Blackwell family and the case heats up with an ice pick murder and a strange ubiquitous zebra-striped hearse..

Great California 60's visuals in Malibu and one of my personal favorites.












#10: "Headed For A  Hearse" by Jonathan Latimer



Brief synopsis: William Crane had just one week to prove Robert Westlake innocent of the murder of his wife. It looked impossible, so P.I. Crane went out and got drunk... then he bought a stopwatch, killed a few hours in a cab, purchased a wrench and tossed it in the Chicago River and subsequently hires a $500 an hour scuba diver to retrieve it.