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The Book with the Orange Leaves (Wa...

Harry Stephen Keeler

The Book with the Orange Leaves (Way Out #3)

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.

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Harry Stephen Keeler

The Circus Stealers

Harry Stephen Keeler

The Circus Stealers

"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 There's nothing new under the sun in Idiots' Valley, home of Harry Stephen Keeler's Screwball Circus. Angus MacWhorter's circus has made it across Old Twistibus – the windingest road in the world – but...

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Harry Stephen Keeler

The Case of the Crazy Corpse

Harry Stephen Keeler

The Case of the Crazy Corpse

"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 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...

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Harry Stephen Keeler

The Portrait of Jirjohn Cobb

Harry Stephen Keeler

The Portrait of Jirjohn Cobb

The worst flood in decades has isolated an island in the middle of Big River and there’s no telling when the dam upriver is going to give. On the island are four men and three lifejackets. The sheriff’s got the rifle and knows one of the other three men is a brutal and ruthless killer. Each man has his own story and if you don’t think this is a situation ripe for the webwork machinations of Harry Stephen Keeler, you haven’t been reading one of the most original mystery writers of the 20th...

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Harry Stephen Keeler

The Five Silver Buddhas

Harry Stephen Keeler

The Five Silver Buddhas

From 1935 comes this thrilling novel about five odd people who happen to buy tiny jade figurines of a non-smiling Buddha. Only Harry Stephen Keeler could have come up with this plot!

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Harry Stephen Keeler

Finger, Finger!

Harry Stephen Keeler

Finger, Finger!

If only Japan could lay her hands on the Thirteenth Coin of Confuscius, which was floating around somewhere in the United States, she could thwart a certain Chinese ambition. The Japanese Secret Service in New York had a clue and immediately a Japanese Secret Service Agent boarded the Chicago Flyer and never took his eyes of a white passenter with a short gray beard. It was the passenger's raincoat that the Secret Agent had his eyes on, and at the first opportunity he grabbed it and...

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Harry Stephen Keeler

The Case of the Jeweled Ragpicker

Harry Stephen Keeler

The Case of the Jeweled Ragpicker

"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 In December of 1946 Harry Stephen Keeler wrote a huge novel he called THE ACE OF SPADES MURDER. No publisher would tackle a novel so big so he split it up, eventually making five new novels from it. THE CASE OF THE JEWELED...

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Harry Stephen Keeler

Stand By -- London Calling!

Harry Stephen Keeler

Stand By -- London Calling!

"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 An unholy love! That's what young Erlys Janway found herself in the throes of as she awaits word from her brother, Pell Barneyfield, as to whether they are truly blood-related. If he can come up with the proof...

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Harry Stephen Keeler

The Ace of Spades Murder

Harry Stephen Keeler

The Ace of Spades Murder

"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 all started with a murder 20 years earlier. A ragpicker was found in a closet, stabbed in the back with a jewelled dagger—through an ace of spades! There’s a reward for the solution to this old murder and Bill Chattuck,...

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Harry Stephen Keeler

The Vanishing Gold Truck

Harry Stephen Keeler

The Vanishing Gold Truck

"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 GaimanWhen the Cedarville bank is robbed of a gold shipment, Sheriff Bucyrus Duckhouse of Willis Creek was just where he wants to be – waiting at the end of the Smoky Ridge Tunnel where any minute the robbers have just got to...

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Harry Stephen Keeler

The Case of the Murdered Mathematic...

Harry Stephen Keeler

The Case of the Murdered Mathematician

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’...

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Harry Stephen Keeler

The Man with the Crimson Box

Harry Stephen Keeler

The Man with the Crimson Box

A man stood on a streetcorner with a crimson hatbox in his hand. An archbishop approached him and asked what was in the box."Wah Lee's skull. I cracked Vann's pete," is the enigmatic reply. From this simple encounter stems the trial of the century. The crimson box does indeed hold the skull of a long-dead Chinaman (or is it?), and the man did break into D.A. Vann's safe (or did he?) One thing is certain: a man died when the safe was cracked, and now somebody has to...

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Harry Stephen Keeler

The Box from Japan

Harry Stephen Keeler

The Box from Japan

At the time of its publication, 1932, this was the longest mystery ever written. Would you believe, 313,000 words – many of them in a strange Hispano-German dialect. It's a simple story about world war in 1942 between an alliance between Germany, Japan, and Mexico against the US and the rest of the world. 3D TV figures prominently, as well as a cactus that proves to be the world's most perfect food source. A remarkable novel, far ahead of its time!

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Harry Stephen Keeler

Find the Clock

Harry Stephen Keeler

Find the Clock

Originally written in 1921 (but not published until 1927), this newspaper thriller pits a young Chicago reporter against the fiend known as the Blond Beast of Bremen.

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Harry Stephen Keeler

I, Chameleon ("The Mysterious Mr. I...

Harry Stephen Keeler

I, Chameleon ("The Mysterious Mr. I" and "The Chameleon")

In 1936 Harry Stephen Keeler wrote a huge novel featuring the most unreliable narrator in literary history. His publishers forced him to split the books into two volumes, The Mysterious Mr. I and The Chameleon.Now, Ramble House has put the two novels together in one volume so you can read the whole story without changing books. Together, they are one of the most unusual books ever written.

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Harry Stephen Keeler

The Riddle of the Yellow Zuri

Harry Stephen Keeler

The Riddle of the Yellow Zuri

In the open market in Chicago, a tiger snake could have been bought by a circus for $10. But the particular snake for which Jake Jennings was willing to pay a small fortune was the key to a great mystery. The grand climax is an absolute surprise, and no reader will be able to say, «I knew it from the beginning.» Here is fiction that is stranger than truth. It contains one of the most perplexing and labyrinthine mysteries ever conceived by the human mind.

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Harry Stephen Keeler

The Case of the 16 Beans

Harry Stephen Keeler

The Case of the 16 Beans

“Beans to YOU, sonnyboy, as per my will!” 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 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...

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Harry Stephen Keeler

The Case of the Lavender Gripsack

Harry Stephen Keeler

The Case of the Lavender Gripsack

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...

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Harry Stephen Keeler

The Man with the Magic Eardrums

Harry Stephen Keeler

The Man with the Magic Eardrums

A man standing in a darkened room notices that someone is breaking in via the window. He waits until the intruder is inside then holds him at gunpoint. The two then embark on the most audacious conversation any author has ever had the nerve to write. By the end of the book you'll be exhausted by the tales each man tells, each more unbelievable than the last. The climax will leave you gasping!

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Harry Stephen Keeler

Cleopatra's Tears

Harry Stephen Keeler

Cleopatra's Tears

Several men find themselves stranded by a flooding river on Bleeker’s Island. The jewels known as Cleopatra’s Tears are missing, and one of the men is believed to be Actor Hart, notorious killer and thief – maybe even the one who stole the jewels. Can the sheriff figure out which one is Hart – and make sure he’s the one without a life jacket when the dam upriver gives way?

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Harry Stephen Keeler

The Case of the Two Strange Ladies...

Harry Stephen Keeler

The Case of the Two Strange Ladies (Way Out #4)

It's tough being a damn'd Yankee reporter in Southern City, but life just gets worse when the nude bodies of two women – one white, one black – are found dead in Cattail Swamp with their heads cut off and swapped. Of course the only way to identify them is to have the bodies on display so every person in Southern City can see them. With such an organized ritual, how can ace reporter Tommy Skirmont ever hope to solve the mystery and keep his job?

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Harry Stephen Keeler

The Bottle with the Green Wax Seal

Harry Stephen Keeler

The Bottle with the Green Wax Seal

The poor souls who spent the first two books of the Big River Trilogy stranded on a small island waiting for the dam upriver to break are still there, but this time there are more than four. And you can bet that each man has a convincing story why he’s not Actor Hart, the ruthless killer. There are not enough life jackets to go around and the Sheriff must figure out which is the criminal so that Hart is the one left to die when the waters begin to rise. Vintage Keeler,...

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Harry Stephen Keeler

The Green Jade Hand

Harry Stephen Keeler

The Green Jade Hand

“Exhibition Extraordinary!” So began the poster advertising the professional debut of Simon Grundt, formerly of the Lincoln School for the Feeble-minded. How the police could choose Simon to solve the murder of Casimer Jech, rare bookdealer, is a tale only Harry Stephen Keeler could have chronicled. Before it’s done you’ll meet ex-con Luke McCracken, ’bo Tom Steever, landlady Sadie Hippolyte, inventor Dirk Mattox and his fiancée Iolanthe Silverthorne, and wealthy gad-about-town Oliver Oliver....

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Harry Stephen Keeler

The Straw Hat Murders

Harry Stephen Keeler

The Straw Hat Murders

It’s tough being being Chief of Homicide when there have been four murders of piano students—all in the same studio apartment! So Huntoon Cambourne knows his job is on the line as he tries to prevent a fifth murder. He’s not lacking for clues because there is a cheap straw hat found at the scene of all four murders. And then there’s the matter of the killer leaving a $20 gold piece in the alms bucket of a deaf and blind mendicant down on the street near the apartment house. But how does the...

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Harry Stephen Keeler

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