The adventures of detectives Trixie Meehan and Mike Harris of the Blaine Agency are some of the most frequently-anthologized stories from the pulps. Author T.T. Flynn's stories of the bickering investigators foreshadowed the genre of male/female partner detectives. Included in Volume 1 are the first four stories in the series- "The Deadly Orchid," "Death Takes Passage," "Falling Death," and "Murder's Masquerade"- along with their original illustrations by Joseph A. Farren.