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What kind of book would be printed on orange leaves? It could only be the one book that contains all of the wisdom of the ancient Chinese, as told in hundreds of aphorisms —The Way Out. Featured in a half dozen webwork mysteries by Harry Stephen Keeler, The Way Out is the only thing keeping one-handed Stefan Czeszcziczki’s wife alive as she awaits an operation. How “Zicky” uses its wisdom to save her life is a tale only America’s most forgotten author could have written.
| Автор | Harry Stephen Keeler |
"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<P> Ho hum. Another day; another corpse dredged up from the depths of Lake Michigan. This time it’s a body having the bottom half of a negro man and the top half of a Chinese woman joined together at the waist by some kind of...
| Автор | Harry Stephen Keeler |
The wayward beauty who comes back to her old hometown to titillate her ex-boyfriend (now a married lawyer) and to blackmail her ex-husband is ripe bait for murder. And murder is just what she gets. Suspicion falls heaviest on the old flame and not on the discarded husband – for very obvious reasons. At the time of the lady's demise, the lawyer was out of his legal mind, befuddled by a number of those potent concoctions known around the cocktail table as gimlets. In the second place, he was...
| Автор | Fletcher Flora |
19 essays on Sherlock Holmes and most especially Doctor Watson, written with a doctor's appreciation. Included are:<P> Doctor Watson and the Weather<BR> The Anatomical Sherlock Holmes<BR> “Brain Fever” and Sherlock Holmes<BR> Curare and Sherlock Holmes<BR> Sherlock Holmes and the Portuguese Man-of-War<BR> Doctor Watson and Nervous Maladies<BR> Dogs and Sherlock Holmes<BR> The Botanical Doctor Watson<BR> The Surgical Doctor...
| Автор | Edward J. Van Liere |
"The Empty House Mystery combines a real puzzle with the story of Ted Wilford’s strenuous efforts to get out the bi-weekly Town Crier while the editor is ill. Ted and his friend, Nelson, who have just graduated from high school, devote part of their pre-college summer to finding the thief of a set of plans for the new state thruway.<P> It all began for Ted one day in the office of The Town Crier when a man came in to advertise in the “Lost and Found” column for a missing folder with...
| Автор | Norvin Pallas |
Love…or murder – all it takes is two…<P> "Bob Colby was more than just a 'one-hit wonder.' He wrote several other respected novels in the 1950s and '60s, including The Deadly Desire and The Secret of the Second Door (both Gold Medal, 1959) and dozens of short stories for Alfred Hitchcock and Mike Shayne… Do me a favor: hunt down one of his novels and give it a try." – Peter Enfantino <P> "He had a journalist's eye for his times. This was especially...
| Автор | Robert Colby |
Stewart Sterling (1895-1976) was the pseudonym of Prentice Winchell, who also wrote under the names of Spencer Dean and Jay de Bekker. Winchell was born in Illinois and worked as a journalist. He preferred to write about non-typical investigative bodies; such as the Fire Brigade, for instance. He was also a screenwriter and writer of radio scripts, as well as many magazine stories. His series characters were Fire Marshal Ben Pedley and PI Gil Vine. Spencer Dean’s primary character was Don Cadee,...
| Автор | Stewart Sterling |
The MacNair of MacNair, conman extraordinaire, pulled into a parallel universe by desperate revolutionaries … finds his life endangered by madmen of every stripe … desperately jumping from universe to universe and century to century, on the run from berserk Emperors, secret policemen, vengeful wives, and maddened doppelgangers, the supremely unruffled MacNair still finds time to save an empire, marry an heiress, and invent the two hallmarks of modern civilization, the indoor flush toilet and...
| Автор | Hayford Peirce |
‘Highly recommend for any cozy mystery fans.’ – Holly (Goodreads)Looking for a new fun cozy crime series? Then spend some time at the coast with Vicky Simmons amateur sleuth!Coming home can be murderVicky Simmons is looking for the simple life. She’s ready to trade in London for a slower pace by opening a British Country Gift Shop in her old hometown on the coast of Maine. Little does she know a few old faces are back in Glen Cove, including unrequited teenage crush Michael Danning—having taken...
| Автор | Vivian Conroy |
A darkly compelling psychological thriller, full of twists and turns, perfect for fans of Louise Jensen, Cass Green and Alex Lake.Secrets lie beneath the surface…Two men, seemingly unconnected, are discovered dead in a holiday boat on the Norfolk Broads, having apparently committed suicide together.Local journalist Alex Devlin, planning an article on the dangers of internet suicide forums, starts digging into their backgrounds.But Alex’s investigation soon leads her to a much darker mystery –...
| Автор | Mary-Jane Riley |