When Richard Ulrome is offered the chance to work for billionaire oilman Simon Miaolo, Anne Blackwell is pleased for her fiancé’s career. But as time goes by, Richard almost becomes a prisoner at Monteine Castle, Miaolo’s feudal headquarters. Slowly, Anne begins to realize that Richard–and she–are being manipulated by a master of Evil in a hideous satanic ritual of sacrifice and renewal as old as time. Like others before her, she finally turns to Ruane the Witchfinder, a defrocked priest who...
Alice Whelan isn't imagining the horrors that she finds on Falcon Island, home of her retired movie star mother, Diana Hamilton, and her sixth husband, Leland Braddock. Who's the mysterious girl named Sarah who's locked away in the mansion tower? What connection does the captive have with the elaborate greenhouse that Leland and his brother Justin are maintaining in the nearby woods? And what strange and unholy experiments are the two men conducting with their…FATAL FLOWERS? ...
When rising young artist Clive Hexley, R.A., vanishes, his friends suspect foul play. Chief-Inspector Calthorp of Scotland Yard is called upon to look into the disappearance, and his investigations lead him to question Hexley’s ex-fiancée, Elsa Farraday. Farraday writes horror-tinged mysteries under a pseudonym, and lives by herself in an old house in the English countryside. She eventually confesses that she murdered the artist and threw his body into a swamp. But the girl’s odd, even peculiar...
The sixth issue of ADVENTURE TALES includes 3 stories by H. Bedford-Jones («Mustered Out,» «The Badman's Brand,» and «Surprise in Sulphur Springs») plus «The Fugitive Statue,» by Vincent Starrett (featuring detective Jimmy Lavender), «Miracle,» by John D. Swain, «The Devil's Heirloom,» by Anthony M. Rud, «The Tapir,» by Arthur O. Friel, «Thubway Tham's Dog,» by Johnston McCulley, «Lancelot Biggs Cooks a Pirate,» by Nelson S. Bond, and «Payable to Bearer,» a crime novelet by Talbot...
The plan was watertight. They were both sure of that. After all, the Gensui was long dead, the war was almost forgotten and the treasure was securely hidden in the jungles of Malaya. But was it ……?<br />The young Yoshiro had supposed that his journey to Malaysia was to honour his father’s last wishes which was to bury his ashes in the grave of his beloved though secret first wife. Meeting his father’s friend Mac for the first time opens a shameful history of murder and bloodshed, money and...
Maria Black, the woman's school headmistress who doubles as a detective, is invited to attend the engagement celebrations of an ex-pupil of her college. There she finds herself involved in the mysterious suicide of the prospective bridegroom, Keith Robinson. All the circumstances–death by hanging in a locked cellar–support the idea that Keith took his own life. The coroner, too, is satisfied that such was the case–but certain peculiar factors of the death lead «Black Maria» to think...
Here are five funny, entertaining, delectable mystery stories featuring Peter «Pit Bull» Geller, who may be a bit damaged physically (in an auto accident), but has lost neither his biting wit nor his keen sense of how the upper crust manages their criminal ways. Included are: «Pit and the Pendulum,» «Pit on the Road to Hell,» «A Christmas Pit,» «Dog Pit,» and «Horse Pit» (winner of the Black Orchid Award from the Nero Wolfe Society and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine). Great reading...
His name is Winston Spencer Leonard Hargreaves, but Detective Inspector Hargreaves of Wiltshire Police is ‘Spence’, even to the Chief Constable. Spence loves his daughter, his work and his solitude. For decades he had worshipped the god of the blues and prayed in the church of St Eric of Clapton the divine. However, his world is rocked by the murder of a local school Deputy Headmaster. Is it sex, professional jealousy, is it the vengeance of a wronged wife, a gay lover spurned or nothing more...
The midnight moon rode high in the sky above the storm clouds sweeping in from the west, and the house seemed to transmute the moonlight into something terrible and evil. The broken chimneys stretched up like hands to the heavens, the eyeless sockets of the windows staring intently along the twisting drive. There were eldritch shadows in the house. On the floor of the library at the rear of the house, the strange cabalistic designs glowed with an eerie, devilish light. There was a flickering...
A young man, relatively new to Fox Creek and living with his elderly grandmother, is discovered dead in his bed after having been severely beaten. Unfortunately, the first person to see the body is Carver Ellis; and the first police officer on the scene is already convinced that young Ellis not only found the body but murdered the victim. It’s up to Victoria Sears and her new best friend from down-mountain, Lynn Hanson, to work hand-in-hand with Chief Deputy Richard Wroten not only to clear...
The seventh issue of «Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine» is another fine selection of tales about Sherlock Holmes, or in the Sherlockian spirit. <P> Fiction:<P> The Dead House, by Bruce Kilstein<BR> A Letter from Legrand, by David Ellis<BR> An Old-Fashioned Villain, by Nick Andreychuk<BR> The Premature Murder, by Michael Mallory<BR> The Double, by Janice Law<BR> The Way It Is (novel excerpt), by Carole Buggé<BR> A House Divided, by Marc...