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When Ralph Black, chain store magnate, is found shot by his own gun in his locked library in his palatial home, the New York Police Department pronounces it suicide. However, his family members believe he was murdered. His sister in England, Maria Black, M.A., Headmistress of a girls' school, wants to discover the truth. She travels to America, and with her penchant for solving crimes, sets to work to trace the mysterious plot against Ralph. Can she unmask the amazing truth about her...
| Автор | John Russell Fearn |
The fourth issue of «Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine» features Carla Coupe's new Holmes story, "The Adventure of the Elusive Emeralds,' plus tales by Stan Trybulski, Melville S. Brown, Marc Bilgrey, Hal Charles, William E. Chambers, Jean Paiva, and Roberta Rogow. This issue's classic reprint is «The Adventure of the Resident Patient,» by Arthur Conan Doyle. Plus all the regular features, a look at the new Holmes movie, cartoons, and more.
| Автор | Артур Конан Дойл |
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...
| Автор | Brian Ball |
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? ...
| Автор | V. J. Banis |
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...
| Автор | John Russell Fearn |
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...
| Автор | H. Bedford-Jones |
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...
| Автор | B J Le Chêne |
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...
| Автор | John Russell Fearn |
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...
| Автор | John Gregory Betancourt |
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...
| Автор | K L Harrison |
