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The car was hot, and so was the blonde who drove it. A smart shamus like Rusty Forbes should have known better than to hole up with her in a tourist cabin. By the time that little picnic was over, he found himself custodian of a corpse-and on the trail of enough loot to stock a department store. Too bad for Rusty that some of Chicago's rougher citizens viewed the situation with alarm. It wasn't enough that the corpse brought the cops down on h...

First in the series of Doctor Syn novels, in which we are introduced to the complex Christopher Syn, the kindly vicar of the little town of Dymchurch. Syn seems pleasant, but we soon learn that he has a sinister past. At one time he was the vicious pirate Captain Clegg and he is also the mysterious "Scarecrow of Romney Marsh", masked leader of the local smugglers.

If you're Toussaint Moore, a private investigator from New York City, and a Negro, framed in your own city for a white man's murder, you are going to find it tricky sledding in a small Ohio town, close to the Kentucky border. But the small town was where Moore felt he had to be, to try to find proof for the police that he was innocent of the killing. Moore's problems had started in New York, when the publicity woman from a television show call...

Seventh and last in the series of Doctor Syn novels, set during the events of the French Revolution and part of the action has Syn rescuing people from the Reign of Terror in the style of the Scarlet Pimpernel. The other main plot element is a love story. Syn has fallen in love with young Cicily Cobtree and hopes his actions against Robespierre will earn him a pardon from the King.

A collection of six classic tales featuring hard-boiled ex-cop Donny Donahue, who now works for the Interstate Detective Agency. These stories ran in Black Mask magazine between 1931 and 1932. This collection was originally published in 1950.

From the creator of Charlie Chan! Set in England at the outbreak of WWI, The Agony Column is a murder mystery and romance told mostly through the device of an "Agony Column" in the newspaper (what Americans would call the "Personals").

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Returning home from the funeral of his last, oldest friend, character actor Johannes Fassbinder falls asleep and is awakened by someone he saw at the funeral-- a young woman who handcuffs him, points a gun filled with silver bullets at him, and asks him if he is guilty of murdering her great-grandfather, and if so, why he did it.

A hard-boiled mystery story featuring Stuart Bailey, tougher than a ten-minute egg. Violence, blackmail and a beautiful dame who suddenly turned up very, very dead. The book was the basis of the film entitled "I Love Trouble" with James Carter and Janet Blair. First published in 1946.

The story that follows this introduction is literally true. There died lately, in a Western State prison, a man of the class known as habitual criminals. He was, at the time of his death, serving out a sentence for burglary. For thirty years he had been under the weight of prison discipline, save for short periods of freedom between the end of one term and the beginning of another.

In 1758 in the church of San Lorenzo in Naples where Vincentio di Vivaldi sees the beautiful Ellena di Rosalba with her aunt, Signora Bianchi. Vivaldi is struck with her beauty, and intends to court her, with the hopes that they will end up married. When Vivaldi's mother, the proud Marchesa, hears about his love for a poor orphan, she appeals to her ambitious and cunning confessor, Father Schedoni, to prevent the marriage, with a promise that ...

An expanded version of Doctor Syn Returns, retitled The Scarecrow Rides, published 1935. Third in the series of Doctor Syn novels. Syn, who has tired of piracy, tries to settle down as the vicar of the little town of Dymchurch in Kent, England. Syn's attempt to live an obscure life fails when he is drawn into the local smuggling trade.

Once a happy family man, Kealan now spends his days walking aimlessly and crashing in his friend's spare room. It never seems to matter how much he walks, because his shadow is always there. When he meets younger Valerie, an inquisitive and sensitive soul, a few rays of light begin to penetrate his dark curtains. But what about her jealous ex? How is it that some things inevitably tie together? And where does one's shadow lead to?

Sax Rohmer had written a mystical play titled Wulfheim in the 1920s. In 1950, he rewrote and expanded the play into the novel you now hold in your hands.

One day several years ago, when Mr. Lowes Dickinson's statement that he had found no conversation and-worse still-no conversationalists in America was fresh in our outraged minds, I happened to meet an English woman who had spent approximately the same amount of time in our country as had Mr. Lowes Dickinson. "What has been your experience?" I anxiously asked her. "Is it true that we only 'talk'? Can it really be that we never 'converse'?

Collected here are twenty-four dark, quirky, eccentric stories. Trent Zelazny will surprise you, entertain you, and take you places you've never been before. A new strong, confident voice has arrived. Zelazny could have chosen to make a career of covering the same ground that his father had already plowed. Instead he has chosen to strike out on his own and prove right out of the gate that he is his own man.Trent Zelazny is off and running. I h...

Courageous Exploits of Doctor Syn is the fifth in the series of Doctor Syn novels by Russell Thorndyke. Like the previous volume it is an episodic collection of adventures. It follows Syn's adventures in his guise as the Scarecrow of Romney Marsh as he foils all attempts to catch him and to break up the Dymchurch smugglers. Courageous Exploits of Doctor Syn was published in 1939. It follows the events of Further Adventures of Doctor Syn and is...

Who? Who out of all the men in her past could have hated Frieda enough to kill? With which one had she been the impetuous-and the dangerous-mistress?

Doan, a chubby, wisecracking private eye, and Carstairs, a Great Dane so huge he ought to be considered a new species, follow a trail of mayhem and confusion from Hollywood to the Mojave Desert town of Heliotrope, a place so thoroughly offensive that neither California nor Nevada will admit that it lies within its borders. It's 1943 and Doan is persuaded by government agents to sweet-talk the location of a valuable ore deposit out of an old de...

The Web of the Golden Spider is a truly thrilling adventure. Starting in Boston and plunging through the mountains of South America, we encounter a revolution in a South American state, a buried treasure, a New England maiden with the Sixth Sense, a beautiful Queen who is half Spanish but talks like an American boarding-school girl, a millionaire yacht owner, and a seafaring American Mulvaney.