Black Cat THRILLOGY #5: 3 Classic Stories by Fletcher Flora

Black Cat THRILLOGY #5: 3 Classic Stories by Fletcher Flora PDF Author: Fletcher Flora
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1479436119
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 45

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Fletcher Flora (1914-1968) wrote or co-wrote sixteen novels under his own name plus ghost-wrote three as Ellery Queen. He penned many short stories for a variety of mystery magazines and anthologies in the 1950s and 1960s. This volume includes: I’ll Kill for You I’ll Race You In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree

Black Cat THRILLOGY #5: 3 Classic Stories by Fletcher Flora

Black Cat THRILLOGY #5: 3 Classic Stories by Fletcher Flora PDF Author: Fletcher Flora
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1479436119
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 45

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Book Description
Fletcher Flora (1914-1968) wrote or co-wrote sixteen novels under his own name plus ghost-wrote three as Ellery Queen. He penned many short stories for a variety of mystery magazines and anthologies in the 1950s and 1960s. This volume includes: I’ll Kill for You I’ll Race You In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree

Black Cat Thrillogy #3: 3 Classic Mysteries by James Holding

Black Cat Thrillogy #3: 3 Classic Mysteries by James Holding PDF Author: James Holding
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1479436100
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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Welcome to the third volume of The Black Cat Mystery Community’s THRILLOGY series, celebrating classic mystery short stories. Included this time are three classic tales by James Holding: "Career Man," "The Tahitian Powder Box Mystery," and "A Deal in Rubies."

Black Cat Thrillogy #11: 3 Great Tales by Kaye George

Black Cat Thrillogy #11: 3 Great Tales by Kaye George PDF Author: Kaye George
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1479441724
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28

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Kaye George, an Agatha nominated short story writer, is the author of Choke: An Imogene Duckworthy Mystery (Mainly Murder Press), as well as A Patchwork of Stories, a collection of her previously published stories, and The Bavarian Krisp Caper, available at Untreed Reads. Fish Tales: The Guppy Anthology contains her story, “The Truck Contest”. She reviews for Suspense Magazine, and writes for several newsletters and blogs. This volume collects 3 of her Imogene Duckworthy mysteries: "Immy Goes to the Dogs" "Snatched Potatoes" "As the Screw Turns"

Black Cat Thrillogy #10: 3 Great Tales by Jack Halliday

Black Cat Thrillogy #10: 3 Great Tales by Jack Halliday PDF Author: Jack Halliday
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1479449040
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 75

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Jack Halliday is an author, award-winning screenwriter and consulting producer whose work has appeared in numerous digital and print publications. His first fiction collection, "Kawanga/Swan Song and Other Mystery Stories," was published by Wildside Press as their 12th Mystery Double. This volume collects 3 of his great stories: FINDING PHYLLIS IN THE BLOOD THE WOMAN IN THE ELEVATOR

Black Cat Thrillogy #9: 3 Historical Mysteries by Edith Maxwell

Black Cat Thrillogy #9: 3 Historical Mysteries by Edith Maxwell PDF Author: Edith Maxwell
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1479419559
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 45

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Edith Maxwell writes the historical Quaker Midwife Mysteries—two of which appear in this collection, as well as a related story. Included are: A Questionable Death The Mayor and the Midwife Adam and Eva Edith Maxwell's latest novel, Turning the Tide, appeared from Midnight Ink in April, 2018.

Black Cat Thrillogy #2: 3 Classic Mysteries by Talmage Powell

Black Cat Thrillogy #2: 3 Classic Mysteries by Talmage Powell PDF Author: Talmage Powell
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1479439738
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 29

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Welcome to the second volume of The Black Cat Mystery Community’s "Thrillogy" series, celebrating classic mystery short stories. This time we focus on the work of Talmage Powell (1920-2000). Included are: EASY MARK LIFE SENTENCE REWARD FOR GENIUS At the beginning of his career, Powell published, under his name and many pseudonyms, more than 200 stories in top crime and mystery pulp magaziness like Dime Mystery and Black Mask Mystery Magazine. After the collapse of the pulps, he continued penning new tales for their digest-sized replacement, writing more than 300+ tales for magazines such as Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Manhunt, and many more. He wrote his first novel, The Smasher, in 1959. Other notable works include the novel The Killer is Mine, a number of Ellery Queen novels he ghost-wrote, novelizations of the TV series Mission: Impossible and scenarios for the TV series Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

Black Cat Thrillogy #6: Thomas Thursday

Black Cat Thrillogy #6: Thomas Thursday PDF Author: Thomas Thursday
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1479436232
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 42

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Thomas Thursday (1894–1974) was a lesser-known pulp writer who ended up having one of the longest careers writing for the pulp magazines. His first published short story, “A Stroke of Genius,” appeared in Top-Notch (April 1, 1918 issue). He submitted the story to them after finding an old issue in the subway. He used the penname “Thursday” after glancing at a calendar. His real name remains a mystery. He was still appearing in the pulps in the late 1950s, after which the magazine format all but disappeared from the newsstands. Thursday was primarily a humorist, one of the few in the pulps. He appeared regularly in Top-Notch through the mid-20s, then transitioned to Argosy. Many of his story titles featured wordplay, e.g. “Illiterature” (People’s Favorite Magazine, April 10, 1919), “Young Mild West” (Argosy All-Story Weekly, February 28, 1925), or “Of Lice and Men” (The Phantom Detective, September 1940). Many of his stories centered on circuses and sideshows. Thursday had worked for numerous circuses in his youth. Swindles and scams were a frequent theme. This volume includes 3 classic stories: “Dead Men Don’t Move” “License for Theft” “Attention to Trifles”

Black Cat Thrillogy #8: Alan Orloff

Black Cat Thrillogy #8: Alan Orloff PDF Author: Alan Orloff
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1479417645
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Alan Orloff is one of the most popular emerging mystery writers. His work has been nominated for Derringer and Agatha Awards, and one of his stories was selected for The Best American Mystery Stories (2018). For his debut appearance in the Black Cat THRILLOGY series, he has selected three of his best short stories: "House Call" "Stormy, With a Chance of Murder" "The Last Loose End" Previous volumes of the Black Cat THROLLOGY series included work by Reginald Bretnor, Talmage Powell, Fletcher Flora, Stephen Wasylyk, and Thomas Thursday (among others). Collect them all!

Killing Cousins

Killing Cousins PDF Author: Fletcher Flora
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1440536899
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 183

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Willie is an alluring woman. She’s the kind of wife that other men lust for. But when she decides her husband, Larry, had ought to be murdered, the stunning beauty turns deadly. The killer? The man who agrees to help her carry out the devious plot? Larry’s cousin Quincy. Quincy plans how to get rid of the body - how to make it look like Larry had run off and left his wife behind. It’s a grand plan. But will it hold together?

Black Cat Thrillogy #1: 3 Classic Mysteries by Reginald Bretnor

Black Cat Thrillogy #1: 3 Classic Mysteries by Reginald Bretnor PDF Author: Reginald Bretnor
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1479439754
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50

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Welcome to the first volume of The Black Cat Mystery Community’s "Thrillogy" series, celebrating classic mystery short stories. This time we focus on the work of Reginald Bretnor (1911-1992). Included are: PAPER TIGER THE MURDERERS' CIRCLE THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF THE DEAREST DEFUNCT Reg was born Alfred Reginald Kahn in Vladivostok, Siberia. He was the son of a Latvian Jewish banker and an English governess. The family moved to Japan in 1917, then to San Diego, California, in 1920. Bretnor, whose name was taken from the maiden name of his maternal grandmother and who many acquaintances thought to be the perfect English gentleman, never left the United States in the 72 years he lived here and did not once set foot in Great Britain. He is most widely known in the science fiction field for his humorous "Feghoot" pun stories featuring time-traveler Ferdinand Feghoot. He also published a handful of science fiction novels and a single mystery novel (A Killing in Swords) in addition to more than a hundred short stories in both the mystery and science fiction genres. In addition to fiction, he wrote extensively on cats and swords (he was an expert on Japanese swords), and both elements feature in many of his works.