John Litel

Dick Tracy meets Gruesome: Dick Tracy squares off against a gang of bank robbers who use a paralyzing gas to commit their crimes. Nancy Drew, reporter: Nancy Drew enrolls in a local newspaper contest, reporting on a fatal poisoning.

It's 1864 and the Confederacy's last hope is an infusion of gold to buy war materials. The gold is available, if someone can smuggle it from a town far west of all the fighting - Virginia City, Nevada. An undercover Union officer is determined to stop a gold-laden train from rolling into Dixie.

In 1862 Paris, Emile Zola is barely scratching out a living writing muckraking articles about the poverty of the French people and the corruption of their leaders. Until "Nana," about the life of a prostitute, becomes a smash hit and turns Zola into a celebrity, champion of the people. Later, his determined intervention in the Dreyfus Affair, at the request of Dreyfus's wife Lucie, results in "J'accuse!", his famous denunciation of the Army, and leads...