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On October 2. 1936. the SS Orient Princess, a vessel of some 8,000 tons, put into Valparaiso carrying a cargo of timber and crude rubber from the Dutch East Indies. Immediately upon arrival, her captain, one Willem van Groot, was met by two members of the local police and Professor Thomas Wilmerson of Miskatonic University, the latter having flown to Chile in response to an urgent radio message sent by van Groot four days before the Orient Princess reached port.<P> Captain van Groot took...
| Автор | John Glasby |
Signor Valentini stepped from his car, regally adjusted his fur-collared coat, bowed to the cheering crowd, and strode to the portals of his luxury hotel which he was about to open officially. He glanced at its architectural majesty with great pride. It was here he hoped to spend his declining years. He intended to make people speak of the hotel, not as the Superba, but as ‘Valentini’s.<P> With solemn dignity, Valentini inserted the golden key in the lock of the outer shutter, turned it,...
| Автор | Norman Firth |
"Art Taylor is the author of The Boy Detective & The Summer of ’74 and Other Tales of Suspense and the novel in stories On the Road with Del & Louise. His work has earned the Edgar, Agatha, Anthony, Derringer, and Macavity Awards. He is an associate professor of English at George Mason University. www.arttaylorwriter.com <P>Restoration"« by Art Taylor was originally published in Issue One of Crime Syndicate Magazine.» It was selected by Barb Goffman, one of the most acclaimed...
| Автор | Art Taylor |
Ripped from the pages of the October, 1937 issue of Secret Agent "X" magazines comes this sensational novel, The Assassins' League! When a wealthy arms manufacturer and a powerful gang lord both kill themselves – when each had the world by the tail – Secret Agent X looks into the suicides. What is the baffling, contradictory cause of their enigmatic deaths? Worse yet, through the course of his investigation, X's amazing disguises fail him at every turn. A strange, beautiful girl posses...
| Автор | Brant House |
The disappearance of a package containing rare plant cuttings leads to a series of mysterious events which Ted must solve.
| Автор | Norvin Pallas |
In Hong Kong, a company has developed a fuel additive that increases mileage markedly. All the world powers want it. But when the formula is stolen from the company safe, only Hugh North can find it—if he lives long enough!
| Автор | F. van Wyck Mason |
A junior partner with extravagant tastes. A senior partner who stands in his way. A bust of Julius Caesar heavy enough to crush anyone's skull. You do the math!
| Автор | Herbert L. McNary |
She was two women: one who gave her body willingly…the other kept a promise to a man who had died months before!
| Автор | Richard Telfair |
Third in the Bulldog Drummond series, by «Sapper» (H. C. McNeile).
| Автор | Sapper |
This volume assembles no less than 40 stories set in H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. Ranging from Lovecraft's own tales (including classics such as the novel At the Mountains of Madness, «The Shadow Over Innsmouth,» and «The Colour Out of Space») to works by his friends and contemporaries (Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, Frank Belknap Long, and Robert Bloch), to later followers (Henry Kuttner, Lin Carter, Brian McNaughton), and contemporary afficianados (Brian Stableford, Mark...
| Автор | Lin Carter |
This volume assembles 15 complete novels by Mildred A. Wirt (writing as Mildred Benson). A rival to the Nancy Drew series (and created by one of the primary Nancy Drew writers), Penny is a plucky girl reporter whose nose for trouble always leads to a new mystery. Included in this volume are:<P> DANGER AT THE DRAWBRIDGE<BR> BEHIND THE GREEN DOOR<BR> CLUE OF THE SILKEN LADDER<BR> THE SECRET PACT<BR> THE CLOCK STRIKES THIRTEEN<BR> THE WISHING WELL<BR>...
| Автор | Mildred A. Wirt |
When Earl Derr Biggers created Chinese detective Charlie Chan, he had no idea he had created a media sensation. Novels, movies, TV series, radio programs, comic books—Charlie spawned a whole industry. Now all 6 novels are collected in one ebook, along with 16 more novels and short stories by Biggers (many of them mysteries). In this volume are: <p> THE HOUSE WITHOUT A KEY<BR> THE CHINESE PARROT<BR> BEHIND THAT CURTAIN<BR> THE BLACK CAMEL<BR> CHARLIE CHAN...
| Автор | Earl Derr Biggers |
One crooked financier—one million dollars in diamonds—the desperate search for both!
| Автор | James Michael Ullman |
He was free now. But his wife was gone. Somewhere the con men were using her as bait–to force him back into their criminal syndicate. And in his violent search through the flea-bitten jungle of hoods and vice dolls he met the beautiful nymphomaniac who swore to help him. Then he learned her awful price– He had to yield to her naked savagery or be framed for a brutal killing!
| Автор | Stuart Friedman |
Almost everyone likes dogs, even those who prefer cats as pets. So it's not surprising that writers have devoted a great deal of verbiage indeed to describe their ongoing love affair with the canine breed. You'll find herein all kinds of tales focusing on dogs: science fiction stories, mysteries, horror tales, westerns, memoirs, humorous accounts, and first-person doggie narratives. There are well-known pieces by writers such as Jack London, James Oliver Curwood, Washington Irving,...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
"The Dashiell Hammett Megapack" collects 20 early and rare stories by the famous mystery writer, plus one poem. Included in this volume are:<P> AFRAID OF A GUN<BR> ARSON PLUS<BR> THE NEW RACKET<BR> BODIES PILED UP<BR> DEATH ON PINE STREET<BR> THE MAN WHO KILLED DAN ODAMS<BR> MIKE, ALEC, OR RUFUS<BR> NIGHT SHOTS<BR> NIGHTMARE TOWN<BR> ONE HOUR<BR> THE ROAD HOME<BR> RUFFIAN’S WIFE<BR> THE SECOND-STORY...
| Автор | Dashiell Hammett |
The Second R. Austin Freeman Megapack collects 19 mystery tales featuring the forensic sleuth Dr. Thorndyke (and others) plus a bonus essay by the author. Included in this volume are:<P> INTRODUCTION: MEET DR. THORNDYKE, by R. Austin Freeman<BR> THE BLUE SCARAB (1923)<BR> THE NEW JERSEY SPHINX (1923)<BR> THE TOUCHSTONE (1923)<BR> A FISHER OF MEN (1923)<BR> THE STOLEN INGOTS (1923)<BR> THE FUNERAL PYRE (1923)<BR> THE CAT’S EYE...
| Автор | R. Austin Freeman |
When struggling actor Glenn Harley helps starlet Nancy Rhymer cover up the death of another actor, he finds himself caught in a web of blackmail, murder, and betrayal.
| Автор | Robert Colby |
Mack Reynolds skillfully blends elements of pop sci-fi culture, mystery and the detective genre in his 1951 mystery, as a detective encounters organized science fiction fandom. Anyone up on science fiction author of the 1950s will recognize a lot of names!
| Автор | Mack Reynolds |
Strange doings on an ore boat! Ted and Nelson to go undercover as unskilled deck hands on the S.S. Shamrock unravel the truth. Is it just bad luck, or is something more nefarious afoot? Stir in a stowaway, a realistic shipping setting, and a series of puzzling events and you get a classic entry in the Ted Wilford series.
| Автор | Norvin Pallas |
Lieutenant Hornblower (first published in 1952) is the second book in the series chronologically, but the seventh by order of publication. The book is unique in the series in being told not from Horatio Hornblower's point of view, but rather from Bush's. This helped Forester to explain Hornblower's unsuitable first marriage besides giving an objective view of Hornblower himself.[1] This unusual narrative perspective also allows Forester to sustain a mystery, advanced hint by hint...
| Автор | C.S. Forester |
Doc Savage is a fictional character originally published in American pulp magazines during the 1930s and 1940s. He was created by publisher Henry W. Ralston and editor John L. Nanovic at Street & Smith Publications, with additional material contributed by the series' main writer, Lester Dent.<P> The heroic-adventure character would go on to appear in other media, including radio, film, and comic books, with his adventures reprinted for modern-day audiences in a series of...
| Автор | Kenneth Robeson |
Talmage Powell (1920-2000) was one of the all-time great mystery writers of the pulp magazines (and later the digest mystery magazines). He claimed to have written more than 500 short stories, and we have no reason to doubt him – we are working on a bibliography of his work and have documented 373 magazine stories so far…and who knows how many are out there under pseudonyms or buried in obscure magazines? He wrote his first novel, The Smasher, in 1959. He went on to pen 11 more novels under his...
| Автор | Talmage Powell |
Welcome to the second volume of The Black Cat Mystery Community’s «Thrillogy» series, celebrating classic mystery short stories. This time we focus on the work of Talmage Powell (1920-2000). Included are:<P> EASY MARK<BR> LIFE SENTENCE<BR> REWARD FOR GENIUS<P> At the beginning of his career, Powell published, under his name and many pseudonyms, more than 200 stories in top crime and mystery pulp magaziness like Dime Mystery and Black Mask Mystery Magazine. After the...
| Автор | Talmage Powell |