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School for Sleuths

Dan Andriacco

School for Sleuths

Francis Aloysius Finn, owner of the A-Plus Detectives Agency & Famous Detectives School, gets more than he bargained for when Norris Beamer asks Finn to investigate his father’s death. Is Viola, Beamer’s new step-mother, really a black widow, or did her four elderly husbands die of natural causes? Is one of her neighbors involved? Or her boss? Or someone else… With the help of his Famous Detectives School students and Hilary Kendrake, his temporary secretary, Finn uncovers a deadly...

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Dan Andriacco

The Case of the Two-Headed Idiot

Harry Stephen Keeler

The Case of the Two-Headed Idiot

"My guiltiest pleasure is Harry Stephen Keeler. He may been the greatest bad writer America has ever produced. Or perhaps the worst great writer. I do not know. There are few faults you can accuse him of that he is not guilty of. But I love him." – Neil Gaiman What would you do if you were Angus MacWhorter, owner of the Biggest Little Circus on Earth, and you’d been offered $3000 for just ten minutes alone with the two-headed child who at one time was the star feature of the...

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Harry Stephen Keeler

The Companion: A Miss Marple Short...

Агата Кристи

The Companion: A Miss Marple Short Story

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.When Miss Marple dines at the Bantrys the conversation always turns to murder. Whilst Dr Lloyd was in the Canary Islands, a woman drowned in the sea. To all it seems an accident, but one eyewitness says her paid companion deliberately drowned her…

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Агата Кристи

The Herb of Death: A Miss Marple Sh...

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The Herb of Death: A Miss Marple Short Story

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.Around the dinner table, Mrs Bantry recounts the tale of a dinner where everyone became ill and one young lady died from poisoning, after foxglove leaves had been mixed in with the sage and fed to everyone. The group decide that this mixed up stuffing was no accident and play twenty questions to deduce the killer…

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The Plunge: An Aggie Mundeen Lake M...

Nancy G. West

The Plunge: An Aggie Mundeen Lake Mystery

When Aggie Mundeen accompanies San Antonio Detective Sam Vanderhoven on a weekend getaway to Lake Placid, she thinks it’s going to be fun in the sun. What could be better than caretaking a friend’s cottage on the Guadalupe River in Central Texas? Never mind that Sam intends to discretely investigate the theft of that friend’s boat… Unfortunately, the weather has plans of its own. Buckets of rain and gusting winds roil the lake, turning the peaceful Guadalupe into an angry, raging...

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Nancy G. West

The Case of the Barking Clock

Harry Stephen Keeler

The Case of the Barking Clock

"My guiltiest pleasure is Harry Stephen Keeler. He may been the greatest bad writer America has ever produced. Or perhaps the worst great writer. I do not know. There are few faults you can accuse him of that he is not guilty of. But I love him." – Neil Gaiman It wasn’t fair! Just because Joe «Zicky» Czeszczicki had the misfortune to hire as his lawyer, 'Golden-Tongue' Winfrock, who died right before the trial, Joe was slated to die in 48 hours! There's no way a man...

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Harry Stephen Keeler

The Trap

Harry Stephen Keeler

The Trap

"My guiltiest pleasure is Harry Stephen Keeler. He may been the greatest bad writer America has ever produced. Or perhaps the worst great writer. I do not know. There are few faults you can accuse him of that he is not guilty of. But I love him." – Neil Gaiman Sheriff Lafe Whitecotton has a problem: sleepwalking Whisperwell Jenkins has stolen and burned some important evidence – as well as $500 in cold cash! – from his office and now everyone blames him for just about...

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Harry Stephen Keeler

The Corpse That Spoke

Robert H. Leitfred

The Corpse That Spoke

This fast detective story gives a well-rounded picture of small town in the grip of a political boss who rules, plunders, and murders. A series of crimes surrounding and deriving from a bank robbery that offered a juicy opportunity for the boss comprises the case that must be cracked in this mystery. Its intricate coalition between crime and politics is a miniature of large scale metropolitan evil. The only opposition not cowed by the power of the boss is a lone private detective. He had...

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Robert H. Leitfred

The Adventure of the Clapham Cook:...

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The Adventure of the Clapham Cook: A Hercule Poirot Short Story

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.Hercule Poirot refuses to work on anything that isn’t a matter of national security. Instead he ends up on a case looking for a missing cook who left abruptly. As the mystery of the cook unravels, a clue for another crime catches Poirot’s attention…

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S.O.S: An Agatha Christie Short Sto...

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S.O.S: An Agatha Christie Short Story

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.Broken down in the middle of nowhere Mortimer Cleveland, a psychic researcher, seeks shelter in an isolated home. From the moment he steps foot into the house he is struck by a sense of tension. Finding ‘SOS’ scratched into the dust of a table he wonders who wrote it and is compelled to answer the call for help…

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The Edge: An Agatha Christie Short...

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The Edge: An Agatha Christie Short Story

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.A dowdy lover is cast aside by a shallow man in favour of a beautiful young woman in this gripping tale of jealousy and infidelity…

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The Affair of the Pink Pearl: An Ag...

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The Affair of the Pink Pearl: An Agatha Christie Short Story

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.While staying at the Laurels with the Kingston Bruce family, Mrs Hamilton Betts discovers that her valuable pink pearl is missing. Presumed to have been stolen by another houseguest, the concerned host contacts the Beresford’s for help.

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The Street of One Thousand Eyes (Ho...

Harry Stephen Keeler

The Street of One Thousand Eyes (Hong Lei Chung #2)

Joseph Fairweather languishes in a mental institution because he has a theory about time and space that’s just plain crazy. Across the ocean in an abandoned warehouse by the River Thames, Eadgyth Whitchurch lies bound hand and foot, soon to be thrown into the river by the London branch of the Tong of the Lean Grey Rats That Swarm the World, just because she overheard a phone conversation she shouldn’t have. Meanwhile, back in the States there’s a slab of ancient stone that seems to disappear...

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Harry Stephen Keeler

Into Thin Air

Jack Iams

Into Thin Air

"The Voice of America and Ed Tremont, of the English Language Unit, involved in the disappearance of Courtney Templeton, one of their difficult broadcasters. Templeton is responsible for a missing directive; Tremont finds a dead man and is fired; the FBI moves in as Tremont's fiances moves out and Tremont finds solace in Templeton's daughter. Abduction, the Russians and a photo-finish chase put Tremont in the clear – with Templeton, his daughter and the right girl – safe. Lots of...

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Jack Iams

The Hollow Man

John Roeburt

The Hollow Man

She kissed him – and there was flame on his lips. Could Johnny Devereaux find his old self in the soft and willing arms of this woman? Or would he lose himself utterly, as had her husband – the man Johnny desperately hunted. A tough cop moving through his toughest case, Johnny could not afford mistakes. He would have to bypass beatings and bullets – and a tomb in a marsh – to reach the fantastic end of this search. Then at last, remembering a torn woman, he would stand face to face...

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John Roeburt

The Wonderful Scheme of Mr. Christo...

Harry Stephen Keeler

The Wonderful Scheme of Mr. Christopher Thorne

When Kwan Yung, Chinese inventor, gets cheated out of $32,000, it sets off a whirlwind set of circumstances that will affect financier Christopher Thorne, his beautiful daughter, Alicia, and his loyal employee, Philip Erskine – for better or for worse! Throw in a brain-teaser and you’ve got the makings for one of the most complex webwork mysteries to escape the mind of Harry Stephen Keeler. You also get a third solution to the Marceau Case, which has baffled Scotland Yard. The action ranges from...

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Harry Stephen Keeler

The Case of the Mysterious Moll

Harry Stephen Keeler

The Case of the Mysterious Moll

Margaret Annister is slated to die in Nevada City’s gas chamber but she’s not too worried. She’s been given a drug by the police matron that takes away all cares and concerns. Also, she knows that her good friend Yerxa Indergaard is due to appeal directly to the Governor in her behalf. Throw in local attorney Croxson Kalver who knows she’s been set up and you have the makings of a webwork mystery only Harry Stephen Keeler could have penned.

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Harry Stephen Keeler

The Girl in Murder Flat

Mel Heimer

The Girl in Murder Flat

Somewhere in the elegance of Beekman Place, the stone refuge of the very rich, she lay naked and sprawled across an heirloom of a bed in the grotesque position of sudden and violent death. She was beautiful Patsy Burton Lonergan, 22- year-old wife, mother—and sole heiress to seven million dollars. She had been bludgeoned to death with a heavy brass.candlestick handsomely inlaid with green glass. The room was a shambles. The following dawn Toronto police took...

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Mel Heimer

The Tuesday Night Club: A Miss Marp...

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The Tuesday Night Club: A Miss Marple Short Story

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.After a supper of canned lobster and a dessert of canned trifle, three people become ill and Mrs Jones is found dead. Although a bought of botulism is suspected, the Tuesday Night Club is keen to investigate further…

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The Dressmaker’s Doll: An Agatha Ch...

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The Dressmaker’s Doll: An Agatha Christie Short Story

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.What is the mystery of the velvet-suited doll that appears to move from place to place? Is someone responsible, or can it be possible that it possesses its own sinister qualities?

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The Case of the Discontented Husban...

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The Case of the Discontented Husband: An Agatha Christie Short Story

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.A man struggles to regain the love of his wife before she leaves him. He asks for Parker Pyne’s help to save his marriage, but when dealing with matters of the heart they do not always follow a plan…

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Dracula Transformed & Other Bloodth...

Mark McLaughlin

Dracula Transformed & Other Bloodthirsty Tales

Throughout history, people have been fascinated by the seductive allure of vampires. We read about them in books, watch stories about them on television and in movies – but do we know all there is to know about them? Of course not. These creatures of the shadows have kept their most shocking secrets hidden . . . until now. "Dracula Transformed & Other Bloodthirsty Tales" features eleven vampire stories by Bram Stoker Award-winning author Mark McLaughlin and Bram Stoker Award...

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Mark McLaughlin

Mystery Off Pirate's Point

L. A. Wadsworth

Mystery Off Pirate's Point

The Lawrence twins, Steve and Tony, found this summer at Pirate's Point quite different from the usual even dullness. First they had new neighbors – Professor Hillyard and his daughter, Pat. Then motorboats sped into the Cove mysteriously at night, without running lights. And Steve broke his leg, so Tony had to print his brother's weekly newspaper, though he had little interest in it. The annual calm is broken by a burglary, a theft, a series of perculiar advertisements and...

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L. A. Wadsworth

Claude Mercoeur’s Reflection and Ot...

Frédéric Boutet

Claude Mercoeur’s Reflection and Other Strange Stories

This volume is the third of a set of three showcasing the work of Frédéric Boutet, the other two volumes being The Antisocial Man and Other Strange Stories and The Voyage of Julius Pingouin and Other Strange Stories. Viewed as an ensemble, the collections illustrate the range and development of Boutet's early work, and provide a few representative samples of its later evolution. Here are a baker's dozen of supernatural, horror, and fantasy tales from the early twentieth century, edited...

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Frédéric Boutet

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