Morocco Jones: The Syndicate Murder Cult

Published: May 12, 2023, 2:11 a.m.

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A SIMPLE HOLLYWOOD BLACKMAIL SCHEME TURNS DEADLY

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Morocco Jones figured this assignment would be a breeze. After all, sending a guy who\nspecialized in busting up crime syndicates and international spy rings to Los\nAngeles to track down some two-bit blackmailer seemed like using a cannon to\nkill a mosquito. To Morocco, it seemed like a good excuse for a nice little\nHollywood vacation ... catch a bit of sun, bed a few starlets, and relax poolside\nwith a large snifter of brandy.

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But Morocco\ncouldn't have been more wrong! Because this was no two-bit blackmail scheme.\nThe half-a-billion-dollar payoff ... for whoever was behind the plot ... was money\nworth killing for. From the moment Morocco Jones hit fabulous movieland, things\nbegan to explode in some very strange and terrifying directions.

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First, there was\nthe reception committee of musclemen who waylaid Morocco in the dark right\noutside his client's fancy Spanish villa. Next was the ex-hood who had become\nhigh priest of a powerful and sinister religious cult that didn't draw the line\neven at murder when it came to keeping its secrets secret. Then, there was the\nscandal sheet that raked in the do-re-mi from the studios ... for the truly\nscandalous stories it didn't print about Screenland's kings and queens. Add in\na crooked cop named Doheny who didn't like Morocco's lip, and the unsolved\ndouble murder of a famous screen beauty and her husband that tied into it all\nsomehow. Nor could Morocco overlook the incendiary blonde starlet in the oh-so\nrevealing dress who seemed to have slept with half his suspects and was always\none step ahead of him, wherever he went.

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There were a lot of\nangles to figure, even for an operative like Morocco Jones. His only hope of\nsolving it was a lush out cold from a 10-day bender and a raw cub reporter who\nlooked more destined to end up being written about in the obits than getting\nhis by-line on the story of the year ... when and if it broke. This was a case with\nthe distinct odor of an organized blackmail ring with syndicate tie-ups.