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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 |
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...
| Автор | John Glasby |
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...
| Автор | Michael R. Collings |
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...
| Автор | Артур Конан Дойл |
In the small town of Ewerton, Wisconsin, the murders just keep piling up, and Anna suspects that her warped grandmother is somehow to blame. Only she can find a solution–if the horror doesn't get her first!<P> "In the tradition of Stephen King's Castle Rock, Ewerton has become another classic locus of evil, a place that you never want to visit. First-rate characterization drives the stake of horror right through the center of your quivering heart!"–Robert...
| Автор | A.R. Morlan |
The happy camaraderie of the Porthcove Studios holiday hotel is shattered by the arrival of the misanthropic George Bullard. The unpleasant Bullard goes out of his way to taunt and annoy both staff and fellow artist guests. So when he's found brutally murdered, everyone in the hotel comes under suspicion as having a motive to kill him. And when a second guest is pushed down the stairs leading to the beach, the police are baffled–and it falls to the unorthodox lady detective Miss Isabelle...
| Автор | Sydney J. Bounds |
Welcome to the Best Little Witch-House in Arkham! In this midnight den of dread and desire, you will find twenty-five rooms, each with a story of its own to tell. Here you will enjoy a delectable variety of otherworldly horrors and delights…enough to satisfy even your most eldritch desires. You will find evil pop-stars longing to devour their fans. You will find a sophisticated secret agent in search of supernatural super-villains. You will find a futuristic restaurant for alien connoisseurs,...
| Автор | Mark McLaughlin |
On a train trip to Scotland with his chief clerk Martin Lee, London financier Morgan Dale is suddenly confronted by his embittered ex-Secretary, whom he's recently sacked. Janice Elton had once been obsessed with him, but the happily married Dale had spurned her romantic advances. Now, Janice wants her revenge. Returning to their carriage, Lee finds Dale alone with the dead body of Janice, whom Dale claims has committed suicide by taking strychnine. With the situation incriminating Dale,...
| Автор | John Russell Fearn |
“My home is nowhere, as is yours,” the old Cajun woman said. “Bloodstone is a place to forget.” “Forget? Never,” Vanessa said. “We came from Bloodstone. We will return to it. Why prevent me from going where happiness waits for me?” “You do not belong at Bloodstone. It is dead, and if you return you too will be dead....” A crumbling castle, a haunted village–and a love that would fulfill her destiny. But first, she must overcome…The Curse of Bloodstone! A riveting tale of gothic romantic suspense...
| Автор | V. J. Banis |
Dick opened the door again swiftly, Vera clinging to him–and they were so astounded at what they saw that he forgot for the moment to slam the door shut again. For the phantom was there–clearly visible in the sunlight, which now blazed across the upper half of the great window. A strange, incredible caricature of a being hung in the dusty air, a haze of blurry light surrounding it from the back. There was the pointed tail, the simian ears, the long needle-chinned face, bent arms flexed as though...
| Автор | John Russell Fearn |
Blackmail babes, dangerous dames, femme fatales, manic minxes, saucy strumpets, torrid trollops, vivacious vixens, and white trash wantons–men fall for them, men love them, men hate them, men wish they had never met these bombastic broads! Here are a novella and four short stories about such dudes, fellows, gentlemen, heels, husbands, killers, and patsies that wind up in trouble when they put their business where their business doesn't belong. See them as they try to squirm out of the...
| Автор | Michael Hemmingson |