Jacob Hay

1960s spy spoof in which a British master spy smuggles a ton or rocket fuel out of Czechoslovakia, under the noses of the enemy.

Of all the Trucial States that lie along the southern coast of the Persian Gulf, none is bleaker and more forbidding in aspect than the miniscule Sheikhdom of Qad al Akh. It is not oil which accounts for the relative prosperity of Qad al Akh. This mini-nation’s sole export is Cannabis sativa…

It was Lucius Belkamp’s wretched misfortune to be everywhere mistaken for a spy, although this was hardly surprising. Anyone with a cover story so unimpeachable as Lucius Belkamp’s simply had to be a spy, in the considered view of quite a number of exceedingly astute chiefs in those shadowy departments whose business is espionage and its prevention.

“Mr. Amberley,” the Captain continued, raising his gaze from the floor and staring into nothingness, “I have to inform you that this ship is presently in the control of pirates.”<P> The Chief Purser took an instinctive step forward, felt immediately the pressure of a gun in his back, and was aware that a third man, the one who had locked the door, was still behind him.

Jacob Hay gives a sly nod to Jeeves and Wooster with his classic crime tale of a butler, a dim-witted master – and murder!

When a plan to celebrate the town of Dexter, Pennsylvania&apos;s Civil War history threatens to derail a Congressman&apos;s political career, steps must be taken! A comic tale by short story master Jacob Hay.

A cold-war comedy of errors ensues, when an experimental Agamemnon XI ICBM lands in the small town of Dexter, Pennsylvania. The small town of Dexter experiences panic at the missile&apos;s landing, of course. Mike Brewer, the editor for Dexter&apos;s newspaper convinces the town&apos;s mayor, Leon Gladfelter, to phone a night duty officer at the Pentagon… But the Department of Defense won&apos;t accept responsibility for the error, so Mayor Gladfelter exercises the town&apos;s right of emminent...

Originally published in the May, 1969 issue of Ellery Queen&apos;s Mystery Magazine, here is a classic spy spoof by Jacob Hay.

Isaac Stoltzfuss had seen many changes and put up with much since his boyhood on the Stoltzfuss family farm. But the Russian satellite, as described in the pages of the Lancaster New Era, was just too much.

The first case in the hitherto unreported criminal inquiries of the firm of Wracke & Rheuwin, Private Investigators. (Will certain eminent groups of devotees chuckle with glee or gnash their teeth in rage? We&apos;re betting on the former.)

Omega Agradamian was not bored, not in the least. From time to time it pleased him to think of himself as a kind of modern-day Captain Nemo. More realistically, he knew that he had discovered the ultimate antidote to boredom, and it therefore delighted him that his friends should think he was forever engaged in a mindless pursuit of pleasure…

Semyon Grovanov, a Ukranian national who attended an elite spy school, is to settle down in the United States with a spy «wife» using forged Canadian passports. But will the lure of American life prove too much?

It is possible to suggest that Her Britannic Majesty’s Foreign Office was moved more by ancestral instinct than by its computers in selecting Sir Vyvyan Bultivant, to be the Governor General of the Pacific island kingdom of Ceruliana, which just might be the closest thing to a Paradise on this Earth. He was just the man for the job. <P> For nearly two decades prior to his appointment Sir Vyvyan had assisted materially in the dissolution of his nation’s once-mighty Empire. Did a newly...

A Dagbur Agradamian espionage tale. This time, the press takes note of his surprising appearance at a business meeting of one of Agradamian&apos;s oil companies, which shocked the rival company that was trying to take it over…

A tongue-in-cheek look at a CIA Operative who&apos;s in over his head. Or is he? A spy-and-counterspy tale with a «difference»!