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"If you want a feel for the real Fifties in the form of a grim caper novel, this is your book. It's tight, deftly plotted and one of those hardboiled novels that is genuinely tough without showing off." – Ed Gorman<P> Greg Driscoll, a wealthy and respected businessman, has two cars, an upscale suburban home, a ten-year-old son off at summer camp, and a beautiful wife. And three ex-G.I.s recently released from Leavenworth want him dead. <P>Driscoll has been stockpiling cash...
| Автор | Robert Colby |
FOR THE UNIQUE PROBLEMS OF TAHITI…YOU NEED A UNIQUE DETECTIVE: JOE CANEILI!<P> What's a nice farmboy from Bookbinder, Kansas, tough but fair, doing as the only Private Eye in the South Pacific? A minor disagreement with the fine Police Officers of Cologne, Germany… 23 years as a Sergeant-Major in the French Foreign Legion… A sardonic eye for the vagaries of human nature… Nothing in Tahiti is too strange for Caneili!<P> Included in this volume are:<P> THE STOLEN...
| Автор | Hayford Peirce |
After a thousand pages and more sidetrips through the backwoods of Chicago than you can imagine, the story of the man standing on the corner with the crimson hatbox is completed. Finally we find out why the defendant, when asked by the archbishop what was in the box, replied «Wah Lee's skull. I cracked Vann’s pete.» But not without some of the most incredible courtroom hijinks in the history of jurisprudence. And it's told as only Harry Stephen Keeler could tell it – in four long...
| Автор | Harry Stephen Keeler |
Night Music: Eight homicides in one night couldn’t have come at a worse possible time for already-overworked Detectives Frank Vandegraf, Jilly Garvey and Dan Lee of the Personal Crimes Unit. The night began with the audacious shooting of a shady and reviled investigator, and proceeded to get nonstop crazier. They can’t rely on the over-strained resources of their department, and as the cases compound and unexpected connections emerge, they’re on their own against the clock, fatigue, and mounting...
| Автор | Tony Gleeson |
At exactly 9:14 A.M. Joyce was driving along the deserted avenue. Just ahead on a side street, Cribbins checked the second hand of his watch for the last time. He swung the heavy Cadillac around the corner. He had a rendezvous with an armored car and a quarter of a million dollars; he had a tommy gun to make sure it all went off smoothly. Everything was timed, everything was planned down to the most insignificant detail – except for Joyce Sherwood and her eight-year-old Chevy, which crashed deep...
| Автор | Lionel White |
“Beans to YOU, sonnyboy, as per my will!”<P> So read the wishes of rich old Balhatchet Barkstone, uncle of young Boyce. Why would he deny Boyce his proper inheritance by leaving him a paltry 16 beans instead of millions of dollars? Could it have been a big mistake? Or an imagined insult? Only Harry Stephen Keeler could have concocted such a plot<P> A note to the sensitive: As with many novels written in the first half of the 20th century, this book contains elements which may be...
| Автор | Harry Stephen Keeler |
Ted Wilford, as editor of his high school paper and school correspondent for the local weekly, is eager for a scoop on the story of who took $13,000 from the school safe after the money had been raised for charity by a carnival. How could the money have been stolen from a locked safe whose combination was known only to three reputable school officials? <P> Ted works hard for his scoops and comes up with some very surprising leads. The working of a school newspaper office provides a...
| Автор | Norvin Pallas |
This is a tale of tragedy and terror invading the pleasant life of a big coeducational medical college. It is exactly what the title says – murder among friends. For they were all friends, a little group of intimates who were drawn to lovely, sparkling Garnet Dillon, secretary to the Dean. Then disaster struck – struck like a great tidal wave of horror, leaving five murders and a gripping fear in its wake. But Detective Tuck knew that in this seething maze of clues and circumstances there must...
| Автор | Lange Lewis |
Drop into The Bone-God’s Lair and take a walk on the Wild Side! Here is premier horror-sci-fi writer A. R. Morlan's introduction to some of Pop Culture's most famous (and infamous) practitioners, from Marilyn Monroe’s poignant farewell in «The Sweet End of the Lollipop,» to Andy Warhol’s wandering spirit in Norm Littman's 15 Minutes, and Jim Morrison's incorruptible presence in «He's Hot, He's Sexy, He's…» Morlan captures the essence of each cause celebre,...
| Автор | A.R. Morlan |
Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine #23 features the best in contemporary and classic mystery fiction, with a great linup of crimes and columns. Here are:<p> Features:<BR> From Watson's Notebook, by John H. Watson, M. D.<BR> Ask Mrs Hudson, by (Mrs) Martha Hudson<p> Non Fiction:<BR> Screen of the Crime, by Kim Newman<BR> Sherlock Holmes – in the Cards, by Gary Lovisi<p> Fiction:<BR> THE BABIES IN THE BLIZZARD, by Archie Goodwin<BR> ...
| Автор | Laird Long |
Bart Hardin trails a mad butcher – a killer who hates the pretty girls of the Great White Way!<P> With this taut and chilling tale, David Alexander, author of «Murder Points a Finger,» introduces Bart Hardin, sardonic, Broadway-wise editor of «The Broadway Times,» a racing and sports newspaper . . . Hardin of the fancy vests, with the rococo apartment over a flea circus, with a handout for every stumblebum around the Garden, with an impact on dames and an affinity for violence.<P> ...
| Автор | David Alexander |
Cheops' daughter, the story goes, earned the money for her pyramid by practicing what was even then the Oldest Profession. Her price had been one stone per man. She built a pretty big pyramid.<P> Many centuries later, beautiful Greta Brandt also made some fancy burial plans – but they were for her husband Farley, who wasn't dead yet. And until he was, Greta intended to leave no stone unturned.<P> Then she met Dave Ferris, a young an not-too-scrupulous archaeologist, who...
| Автор | Robert Edmond Alter |
She had the kind of beauty no man could resist, even an ecy-veined private eye. Trouble was, Juanita Toy gave Peter Hunter more than her warm, exotic flesh. Her gifts included money – and a murder rap!<P> Maybe Pete should have stuck to less dangerous women, like gorgeous Pat Laine, so big and so willing, so blonde all over. That way he would only have had to lick the gangster Moretti, the copper Hogan, the killer old Phineas and his hatchetman, Ramon…<P> But Pete's stake in...
| Автор | A.A. Marcus |
Now you see them, now you don’t … Where is the missing mother? And the omnibus with nine occupants? In Strange Events, Sherlock Holmes and John Watson return in two bizarre and chilling tales by the ingenious Lyn McConchie. <P> How can an omnibus with eight passengers and a driver simply vanish into thin air? The newspapers are full of speculation, and the police are clueless. Maurice Jepson’s wife Thelma was on the missing omnibus, and in desperation, he turns to Holmes and Watson....
| Автор | Lyn McConchie |
Quiribus Brown, probably the only 7-and-a-half-foot-tall mathematical detective in the Midwest, has got to solve the mystery of who killed Professor Munstergale, or he’ll never get his rightful inheritance. Luckily, Munstergale lived long enough to draw on a blackboard two diagrams, one pointing to his killer, and the other pointing to where he knew the killer from. There are two theories, both involving prominent citizens as suspects, and Inspector Clarvoe’s job is depending on Quiribus’...
| Автор | Harry Stephen Keeler |
