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Y. Cheung, Business Detective

Harry Stephen Keeler

Y. Cheung, Business Detective

Young Y. Cheung is in a pickle! In order to receive a $100,000 inheritance from his grandfather’s estate, he must get his name mentioned in 1000 U.S. newspapers, “in an honorable fashion” before midnight of the day before the estate is settled. On top of that, his family doesn’t consider his one-of-a-kind profession, business detective, “honorable”. How Y. Cheung uses his inscrutable wiles to gain happiness and the inheritance is a tale only Harry Stephen Keeler could spin. "It...

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Harry Stephen Keeler

X. Jones—Of Scotland Yard

Harry Stephen Keeler

X. Jones—Of Scotland Yard

One of Keeler's best, this is the second half of the notorious Marceau case, where a strangler baby dangling from an autogyro may have done the deed. Written in 1935 at the peak of Keeler's powers. Xenius Jones, Chief Inspector of Scotland Yard, gave the exact date he would reveal the details of the infamous André Marceau murder. Then Alec Snide, an American reporter, broke the case before he did! But Jones insists that Snide is 100% wrong—and he’s got the 4-dimensional...

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Harry Stephen Keeler

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 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 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 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

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

The Six from Nowhere

Harry Stephen Keeler

The Six from Nowhere

"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 Who are those six mysterious figures that are looming outside the owner's trailer of Angus MacWhorter's Mammoth Motorized Shows? And why would they want the copy of a pulp magazine that he bought for ten cents? The...

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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 Riddle of the Wooden Parrakeet

Harry Stephen Keeler

The Riddle of the Wooden Parrakeet

The condemned man asked for three things before he climbed the thirteen steps to the gallows: a glass eye, a champagne cork and a wooden parrakeet. Can any mystery writer—other than Chicago paper blackener Harry Stephen Keeler—have proposed such a scenario? And then written a huge meganovel filled with celestials and tong lore to explain why the condemned man should make such a request?

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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 Mystery of the Fiddling Cracksm...

Harry Stephen Keeler

The Mystery of the Fiddling Cracksman

Wild, fantastic, yet overwhelmingly logical, this yarn could come only from Chicago's own Sherlock Holmes and that favorite of American mystery fans, Harry Stephen Keeler. Here he gives us a brand-new webwork of mysteries – a cracksman who uses not dynamite, but a violin; a second-hand safe with amazing secrets inside; a volcanic island in the Pacific; a fantastic kingdom in Europe; and a pair of lovers caught in the very center of this whirlwind of danger and detection. As usual, this...

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Harry Stephen Keeler

The Matilda Hunter Murder

Harry Stephen Keeler

The Matilda Hunter 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 began with a mysterious black satchel stitched closed with silver wire. Mrs. Matilda Hunter, Jerry Evans’ landlady, finds the satchel and leaves it in his room – and then is heinously murdered. Before long, Jerry...

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Harry Stephen Keeler

The Marceau Case

Harry Stephen Keeler

The Marceau Case

"The Babe from Hell!" gasped Andre Marceau just as the wire rightened around his neck. A second later he lay sprawled on the ground – dead. Close by his body were the tracks of tiny footsteps, beginning nowhere and leading nowhere…the only clues to one of the most shocking crimes of the Twentieth Century! That was the beginning of a mystery that Scotland Yark sleuths worked on frantically for two years and then abandoned in despair, without a solution. Yet it was to be solved, not...

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Harry Stephen Keeler

The Man with the Wooden Spectacles

Harry Stephen Keeler

The Man with the Wooden Spectacles

The trial of the man apprehended with a crimson hatbox containing a skull continues with the shenanigans of the Moffit brothers, Silas and Saul, trying to thwart the efforts of Elsa Colby, the young defense lawyer who must win her first case – or it will be her last! Elsa finds herself visiting the darkest parts of Chicago in her quest to prove that when her client told the archbishop that the box contained «Wah Lee’s skull,» he didn’t know the box actually had a skull...

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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

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 Man Who Changed His Skin

Harry Stephen Keeler

The Man Who Changed His Skin

It’s 1855, and with a war over slavery looming on the horizon, all bachelor Clark Shellcross wants to do is get married. But when his hopes are dashed he succumbs to temptation and takes a weird drug that claims it will change his life. And it does! He wakes up the next morning with black skin! It doesn’t take long for him to realize that 1855 is not a good time to have darkly hued skin, even in the northern city of Boston. The story of his frantic odyssey in search of his former life...

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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 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

The First Mystery Novel MEGAPACK ®:...

Harry Stephen Keeler

The First Mystery Novel MEGAPACK ®: 4 Great Mystery Novels

The First Mystery Novel MEGAPACK™ presents four classic mysteries by top crime writers. Here are: The Red Bishop, by Howard Mason … A wild chase through Europe…a castle on the Rhine…some very fancy corpses…a racing columnist who suddenly finds himself a Peer of the Realm… These are the unlikely ingredients that make this book at once hair-raising and light-hearted! Reclining Figure, by Marco Page … Lucas Edgerton, arbitary and capricious eccentric, brings in Ellis Blaise, a...

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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 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 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

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