"My name is Percy Hand, and I’m a private detective. My privacy is rarely invaded. This makes the rent a problem, but it gives me plenty of time to watch the rain come down into the alley on rainy days." A classic mystery novelet by Fletcher Flora!
Wildside Press is proud to present the fifthof Fletcher Flora’s series featuring police detective Lt. Joseph Marcus, as part of our ongoing effort to make Flora’s collected work available again to the public. We plan to release the entire series.<P> While Flora had a long career writing much crime, mystery, and detective fiction, Marcus seems to be his only attempt to create a series character. Marcus, as a character, is marked by his dogged rationality, as he attempts to solve various...
Fletcher Flora (1914-1968) wrote or co-wrote sixteen novels under his own name plus ghost-wrote three as Ellery Queen. He penned many short stories for a variety of mystery magazines and anthologies in the 1950s and 1960s. This volume includes:<P> I’ll Kill for You<br> I’ll Race You<br> In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree
Wildside Press is proud to present the fourth of Fletcher Flora’s series featuring police detective Lt. Joseph Marcus, as part of our ongoing effort to make Flora’s collected work available again to the public. We plan to release the entire series.<P> In this entry, Lt. Marcus and Sgt. Fuller investigate another puzzling murder – in this case, the death of Phil Stein, slain while mowing his lawn. …<P> While Flora had a long career writing much crime, mystery, and detective fiction,...
