George Barr McCutcheon – author of the classic novel Brewster's Millions, as well as the Graustark series – was a popular American novelist in the early 20th century. This volume assembles no less than 25 of his works, including Brewster's Millions and four Graustark novels–more othan 2,700 pages! <P> Included are: <P> BREWSTER'S MILLIONS<br> GRAUSTARK<br> BEVERLY OF GRAUSTARK<br> TRUXTON KING& ...
Russ Farran has a plush mansion and millions stashed away in the bank, all garnered from his 1950s Los Angeles aeronautics empire. But that empire is teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, due to a series of persistent labor strikes that seem to be provoked by agitators. Then he encounters an old friend, a private investigator, lying next to his desk with a neat, blue-rimmed hole in his head. The cops and the feds both think that Farran did it. T ...
Mike Lantry, the tough, hard-bitten chief of World Wide Investigations, is on his way back to New York after a restful vacation when he gives a ride to a lone girl on an Indiana highway. Lantry's up to his neck in from that moment on, coming into contact with gun-wielding hoodlums and crooked cops and the head of the Mafia in the Midwestern United States. When he joins forces with plucky Joanne Kilvert to pull down a crook's empire, he ...
America’s bloody Civil War is over, leaving a legacy of bitterness, repercussions, intrigues, and many forms of villainy, not all acted out on the American continent. When the last ship of the old Confederacy docks in Liverpool, England, in 1865, the mysterious, humpbacked Mr. Fortune, carrying a burden of secrets, slips ashore and disappears into the fog of winter. And in London, private detective Septimus Dacers finds that helping an American ...
When Fredericka Wing arrives in South Sutton, Massachusetts, a tiny New England town, it seems an ideal place for a working summer vacation. She plans on managing Miss Hartwell's bookstore while working on her own writing. She never dreamed she would find a body in a hammock in her own backyard. Someone brutally murdered Catherine Clay, an heir to the Sutton family fortune. And more violence follows. Together with Peter Mohun, a professor a ...
At the twilight of the British Empire, Dr. Fu Manchu again comes up against Nayland Smith, the one man who can stop his sinister plans to destroy the Western world and remake it in the glorious image of the East, with Fu Manchu as absolute ruler. First appearing in Sax Rohmer's short story «The Zayat Kiss,» the oriental super-villain went on to appear in 14 books between 1913 and 1973. ...
Sherlock Holmes whether he's a grimy student in 1980, a consulting detective in 47BCE, or a smitten neighbour in 1969, will always find his… John Watson whether he is a military doctor in 1917, an angry Saxon with an axe in 1086, or a priest in 1603. A Question of Time is an illustrated journey through the ages told by our heroes, by their friends, and by a scorched manuscript. ...
Melbourne during the depression. A seedy, corrupt city.<br /> <br />Someone has struck at the heart of Australia's soul: they have killed the horse that would have won the Melbourne Cup. For what motive? Profit, blackmail, a betting scam? Only Tom Pink, the rider of the murdered horse can find out.<br /> <br />Tom, born into the underworld he now tries to defeat, exposes graft and blackmail that reaches to the upper ...
A half-naked body of a girl is discovered on a driveway. A young man researching the defection to Australia of the Hungarian Olympic team in 1956 is having trouble with his love life. An old man living alone with his cat discovers hidden clues…<br /> <br />Set in Melbourne in the 1950s and the present, this crime novel was inspired by an unsolved murder in Mt Martha in 1953. Historically accurate in the details, it blends social comm ...
