In the dark days of the 1930s Depression, veteran detective Jack Dunning loses both his wife and his position with the Boston Police Department because he can't keep the cork in the bottle. He hops a bus to California and signs on with the Santa Paulina Police Department as a consultant. On a dark, stormy night he finds salvation and a fresh beginning in the arms of a beautiful, young, dime-a-dance girl, Angel Doll. When she vanishes after ...
The commemorative brass plate in the abandoned Derbyshire village church showed Sir Humphrey and Lady Sybil de Latours standing together. At the side of the man is a lion, and beside Sybil a fanged dog. <P> Strangely, the face of Sybil has been obliterated, despite the clear detail elsewhere. But young artist Sally Fenton takes a rubbing nonetheless, to sell to tourists from the shop that she and her paramour, Andrew Thomas, share. She ...
The Second E.F. Benson Megapack collects 11 more short stories and 11 novels by E.F. Benson, spanning horror, mystery, suspense, and historical subjects, including such classics as Miss Mapp and Queen Lucia. <P> Included are: <P> THE OUTCAST<BR> THE COUNTESS OF LOWNDES SQUARE<BR> THE BLACKMAILER OF PARK LANE<BR> THE DANCE ON THE BEEFSTEAK<BR> THE ORIOLISTS<BR> IN THE DARK<BR> THE FALSE ST ...
Dr. Brutus Lloyd is no more than four feet ten inches tall, an amazingly gnome-like man. He's not a dwarf, simply vest-pocket size. His head has a brow like a baby cliff, capped by a tuft of jet-black hair that curled down the immense forehead. His face, though overbalanced by the brow, is powerful for all its smallness. The most surprising thing about him is his deep bass voice. A brilliant scientist and criminologist, his unorthodox metho ...
Maria Black, M.A., Principal of Roseway College for Young Ladies, does not expect to come face to face with murder in her favorite cinema, when a stranger seated in Number 11 on Row A is found to be dead–shot through the head with a copper bullet! The baffling crime enables her to take on her role of detective and become, once again, Black Maria–the tireless crime solver. Determined to get to the root of the mystery, she works side by side with ...
"The E.F. Benson Megapack" collects 36 of Benson's horror stories, including such classics as «The Bus-Conductor,» «The Room in the Tower,» and «The Thing in the Hall.» Included are: <P> AT ABDUL ALI’S GRAVE<BR> THE MAN WHO WENT TOO FAR<BR> THE CAT<BR> GAVON’S EVE<BR> THE DUST-CLOUD<BR> THE SHOOTINGS AT ACHNALEISH<BR> THE BUS-CONDUCTOR<BR> THE HOUSE WITH THE BRICK-KILN<BR> ...
THE MAN WHO LOST HIMSELF tells the story of Michel Bedee, a brilliant scientist whose work on the new element that he's discovered–sirium–has alienated him from his mother, his sister, and his wife. He cannot bear the fact that, although he loves his wife dearly, he cannot make her happy. Unfortunately, when she finds an alternative route to happiness, he cannot bear that either. Forced into isolation, he completes the formulation of the th ...
Sherlock Holmes! That magical name conjures up all that is thrilling and exciting about the classic mystery short story. The Great Detective, created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is without doubt the most well-known and popular fictional character ever created–and with good reason. Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories are fascinating excursions into scientific detection with interesting, well-formed characters, offering intelligent, thoughtful mysterie ...
"The Werewolf Megapack" collects 22 classic and modern tales of shape-shifters (and not just wolves!) – including works by Jay Lake, Jack Williamson, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, John Gregory Betancourt, Rudyard Kipling, Saki, and many more. Included are: <P> LEOPARD, by Jay Lake<BR> GABRIEL-ERNEST, by Saki<BR> SYMPATHY FOR WOLVES, by John Gregory Betancourt<BR> THE DRONE, by Abraham Merritt<BR> THE WERE-WOLF, by ...
