Homicide

Records

Stakeout

The Arcade

Missing
Persons

Dirty Harry by Phillip Rock

Comments:
Astrology plays a larger role here than it did in the film, and we see more from Scorpio's point of view as he uses astrology to make decisions.   He even seeks refuge among the stars in one scene, when he goes to skywatch before being inspired to abduct Ann Mary Deacon.

Harry is working on a murder case involving a mugger before he is assigned to Scorpio.  He works on it throughout the story, although it receives very little attention.

The "Bank Job" scene is different, and unfolds during a rainstorm.  In addition to the tailpipe smoke, Harry notices that though people continue to enter, no one is exiting the bank.  The biggest difference in the scene, though, is Harry's alternate "Do I feel lucky" speech, (which was actually the original).

Among the noticeably absent: the suicide jumper scene is omitted, and Harry does not throw away his badge at the end.

Magnum Force by Mel Valley

The Deserving Dead
Gangsters at their country estates.   Pimps in their El Dorados.  Drug czars ringed by bodyguards.  A vigilante with a deadly aim is gunning them down.  He's cleaning up San Francisco, and no one can say his victims don't deserve to die...

But who is this executioner?  Who will be his next target?  When will he stop killing?  Dirty Harry's itching to track him down, and if no one gives him the job- he'll take it!

Comments:
Valley follows the working script closely, and includes several scenes that didn't make the final cut.  He also introduces a few character traits that differ from the film.  The most notable ones being that Harry smokes throughout the story, and that he is separated- not widowed.   Early Smith is depicted as having more of a Southern background, and less camaraderie with Harry than we see in the film.  A slightly different ending has Harry meeting the chief at the shipyard after his scene with Briggs.