This volume collects all three Amelia Butterworth novels by Anna Katharine Green: «That Affair Next Door,» «Lost Man's Lane» and «The Circular Study.» If you are not yet familiar with Green's work, you will soon be a fan – she was a major influence on the development of the modern mystery story and a strong influence on Agatha Christie. (Miss Marple was modelled after Amelia Butterworth.) ...
The first in the classic series featuring Chief Inspector Damiot of the Paris police.<P> "Chief Inspector Damiot of the Paris police, recuperating from a bullet wound, seeks sun and rest in Courville, his boyhood village in Provence. But Courville is lately in a ferment about the unsolved murders of two young girls–one a promiscuous villager, the other still unidentified. And there are also rumors of a monster seen at the supposedly- ...
Edgar Hoffmann Price (1898 – 1988) was an American writer of popular fiction (he was a self-titled 'fictioneer') for the pulp magazine marketplace. He is probably most famous for his collaboration with H. P. Lovecraft, «Through the Gates of the Silver Key,» though he published hundreds of other works. This volume collects 19 of his two-fisted detective tales. Included are:<P> INTRODUCTION, by Shawn Garrett<BR> SPIRIT MURD ...
The Second Boy Detectives MEGAPACK® presents 6 more novels featuring young sleuths – tales of the Banner Boy Scouts, Skippy Dare, the Mystery Boys, and more! Included are:<P> THE BANNER BOY SCOUTS MYSTERY, by George A. Warren<BR> YOUNG ATOM DETECTIVE, by Charles Coombs<BR> THE MYSTERY OF THE FIFTEEN SOUNDS, by Van Powell<BR> THE GHOST OF MYSTERY AIRPORT, by Van Powell<BR> THE MYSTERY BOYS AND CAPTAIN KIDD' ...
The Mercer Boys head to Southern California to search for buried Spanish gold. The Mercer Boys on a Treasure Hunt is the third book in the popular boys' mystery-adventure series by Capwell Wyckoff, originally published between 1929 and 1933. ...
Decades in the desert have made reporter Michael Callan hard as a sun-bleached skull. But mutilated migrants and his ex-flame keep causing Callan trouble … even if they're six feet under. Mix an innocent beauty with a savage one, add an assembly of killers, thugs, and a surgeon. Stir vigorously, and you've got a bloody cocktail-lethal for an Irishman who doesn't drink. This is the first novel by Charles Kelly, an award-winning rep ...
Welcome to The Fourth Mystery MEGAPACK®! This time we have a stellar lineup for your reading pleasure, drawing stories from a wide variety of sources – including not only the traditional mystery magazines (such as Ellery Queen's and Alfred Hitchcock's), but also their less-well-known rivals (remember The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Magazine? Keyhole Detective?). Some are from science fiction magazines (mysteries can appear anywhere!) and some ...
The pulp fiction magazines of the early to mid 20th century featured just about every subject imaginable, from fringe titles (yes, there really was a Civil War Stories, a Submarine Stories, and even a Suicide Stories) to mainstream (Argosy, Adventure, Blue Book) to genre titles (Weird Tales, Detective Stories, Ranch Romances) and everything in between. “In Between” includes the “hero” pulps, of which there were dozens…Doc Savage, Operator #5, Th ...
The summer camp of Woodcrest Military Institute was always an exciting event to the Mercer boys and Terry Mackson. But when the cadets camped near Rustling Ridge, the boys ran into a series of startling occurrences: a horse stampede, a mysterious fire, the disappearance of a little girl, and most frightening of all, the Ghost of Rustling Ridge, who seemed determined to drive the cadets away. Don and Jim, along with Terry, were appointed to the c ...
