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A Decent Price for a Painting

James Holding

A Decent Price for a Painting

A pair of art experts attempt to scam a seller of a piece of valuable pop-art by persuading him that it's only a copy.

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A Homemade Dress

James Holding

A Homemade Dress

She thought she knew what her husband was really up to. But if she's known – she would have screamed, «Murder!»

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A Message from Marsha

James Holding

A Message from Marsha

Larry needs to make money—fast—in order to fund his honeymoon. A full, traditional honeymoon is the only way Marsha will marry him. So Larry decides to rob his boss…

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A Mishap in Venice

James Holding

A Mishap in Venice

It seemed a pity to Paolo that romance in Venice should be at the mercy of racketeers. So he turned their space-work upside down… A chilling suspense novelet!

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A Padlock For Charlie Draper

James Holding

A Padlock For Charlie Draper

Charlie Draper believes there are two ways of doing things: the easy way and the hard way. Anyone who chooses the hard way, he insists, is a fool. So why does he take the hard way when his story is robbed?

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A Question of Ethics

James Holding

A Question of Ethics

The first installment in James Holding's classic «The Photographer» series about a professional assassin. One of his best.

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A Rope Through His Ear

James Holding

A Rope Through His Ear

When a less-than-honest collector decides to add a valuable Mochica jug to his collection, he consults Professor de la Vega with a request to merely photograph it. When the professor directs him to the who sold it on the black market, he arranges to purchase it—and that's where the trouble starts, because he still needs to get it back to the United States!

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A Temporary Bind

James Holding

A Temporary Bind

Irresponsible spender (and bank robber) Michael decides to pull an insurance scam on his car. He has certain debts to pay off to a gang boss. It’s easy to organize the scam with the help of a chop shop owner and an insurance man, but it turns out they have plans of their own…

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A Visitor to Mombasa

James Holding

A Visitor to Mombasa

Officer Harper takes a pair of reports of leopard sightings in Mombasa and manages to track the beast to a baobob grove off the coast. Then he hatches a scheme for a promotion, with the help of the beast…

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An Exercise in Insurance

James Holding

An Exercise in Insurance

No need to worry if this bank is robbed—they have an external alarm that rings in a hat shop nearby. Crooks aren't clever enough to figure out stuff like this. Are they?

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Black Cat Thrillogy #3: 3 Classic M...

James Holding

Black Cat Thrillogy #3: 3 Classic Mysteries by James Holding

Welcome to the third volume of The Black Cat Mystery Community’s THRILLOGY series, celebrating classic mystery short stories. Included this time are three classic tales by James Holding: «Career Man,» «The Tahitian Powder Box Mystery,» and «A Deal in Rubies.»

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Border Crossing

James Holding

Border Crossing

A illegal Chinese immigrant attempting to sneak across the Canadian border into the United States has a secret…

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Career Man

James Holding

Career Man

Mr. Cardone, a career thief, has managed to avoid being caught in all his years of schemes and robberies. Upon visiting India for a vacation, he is approached by Mirajkar Dass, a big Hindu man, who proposes the heist of a valuable jewel-encrusted tapestry…

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China Trader

James Holding

China Trader

A fsherman with a fondness for self-made aphorisms, Fong Kam Lee arrives in Hong Kong to fish lucratively, but is convinced by a syndicate representative that he should instead smuggle luxury goods…

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Contraband

James Holding

Contraband

A middle-aged American couple is in the midst of a year-long tour of Europe when they come across a man in Zurich who knows somebody in Naples who might be able to help them get something they've always wanted but couldn't obtain…not legally, anyway.

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Cop Killer

James Holding

Cop Killer

A policeman tasked with keeping order in a seedy section of town learns he's to have a partner. They get along famously, and as the months pass they seem like a proper crime-fighting duo. Then one night they encounter the policeman's old high school rival-turned-criminal in the process of escaping a robbery…

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Fly Away Home

James Holding

Fly Away Home

Yancey, a no-good deadbeat, has been borrowing money from his successful friend, a doctor, for years. When Yancey comes in one day and pays back all the money that he's borrowed, how he got it is quite a tale…one that may leave him dead!

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Go To Sleep, Darling

James Holding

Go To Sleep, Darling

A mentally ill woman waits outside a school to pick up a child with a passing resemblance to her daughter. After following a likely candidate, she persuades the girl to get in her car – and that's where things really go wrong.

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In the Presence of Death

James Holding

In the Presence of Death

When the Photographer is hired to kill a printer, he finds layers of deception, counterfeit money, and blackmail. #15 in the classic series from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine.

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Jade Monkey

James Holding

Jade Monkey

A thief specializing in jade decides to go for his big score – the fabulous Green Monkey, an incredibly valuable piece of carved jade…

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James Holding’s Conmen & Cutthroats...

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James Holding’s Conmen & Cutthroats MEGAPACK ™: 25 Classic Mystery Stories

We present for your reading pleasure a selection of 25 stories by prolific crime & mystery author James Holding. We have named this collection «Conmen & Cutthroats» because Mr. Holding had a penchant for sharp tales involving smart criminals who use their wits to succeed, as well as those whose schemes involve the need for a somewhat more direct approach. Included are:<P> YOU CAN'T BE TOO CAREFUL<BR> A QUESTION OF ETHICS<BR> THE JAPANESE CARD MYSTERY<BR> ...

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James Holding’s Murder & Mayhem MEG...

James Holding

James Holding’s Murder & Mayhem MEGAPACK ™: 24 Classic Mystery Stories and a Poem

James Holding enjoys a reputation as one of the more prolific contributors to the mystery magazines of the 1960s and 1970s. (Our bibliography shows nearly 200 stories published in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Magazine, etc.) He had series, such as the «Leroy King» stories (which poke gentle fun at «Ellery Queen»). He had standalones. He had mysteries of every sort imaginable – and this volume includes a selection of 24 choice...

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Never Wake a Sleeping Man

James Holding

Never Wake a Sleeping Man

Jimmy Lee dreams of replacing rhino horn with a cheaper ingredient in old Liu Kam Fan's secret formula for Heavenly Heavenly Happiness Salt. It will make millions. But Liu Kam Fan doesn't want to listen to reason. The old ways are good enough…

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Once Upon a Bank Floor…

James Holding

Once Upon a Bank Floor…

Two mystery readers meet on a plane. One reads crime stories to pass the time. The other reads them to keep abreast up with the trade…

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