Liquid Death and Other Stories

Liquid Death and Other Stories PDF Author: John Russell Fearn
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1587156334
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230

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JOHN RUSSELL FEARN began his writing career as a pioneer in the science fiction field, appearing in all of the American pulp science fiction magazines in the early 1930s. However, many of his fans don't know that Fearn was also a prolific and successful writer in other genres, especially crime and detective fiction. This volume contains some of his best stories from the famous pulp magazine, Thrilling Mystery Stories, plus several others, including two which are previously unpublished.

Liquid Death and Other Stories

Liquid Death and Other Stories PDF Author: John Russell Fearn
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1587156334
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230

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Book Description
JOHN RUSSELL FEARN began his writing career as a pioneer in the science fiction field, appearing in all of the American pulp science fiction magazines in the early 1930s. However, many of his fans don't know that Fearn was also a prolific and successful writer in other genres, especially crime and detective fiction. This volume contains some of his best stories from the famous pulp magazine, Thrilling Mystery Stories, plus several others, including two which are previously unpublished.

Death in Silhouette

Death in Silhouette PDF Author: John Russell Fearn
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1479409677
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 214

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Maria Black, the woman's school headmistress who doubles as a detective, is invited to attend the engagement celebrations of an ex-pupil of her college. There she finds herself involved in the mysterious suicide of the prospective bridegroom, Keith Robinson. All the circumstances--death by hanging in a locked cellar--support the idea that Keith took his own life. The coroner, too, is satisfied that such was the case--but certain peculiar factors of the death lead "Black Maria" to think otherwise. Aided by her American Bowery companion, "Pulp" Martin, Maria sets out to prove how Keith really died--and in doing so uncovers an ingenious plan of cold-blooded murder. But who is the killer--and why was Keith murdered? This fifth--and final--novel in the Black Maria series is a classic "locked-room" crime novel, one that will leave the reader guessing right up to the last page!

The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories: 5

The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories: 5 PDF Author: Ed Gorman
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 076531147X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 470

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An annual collection of more than thirty mystery stories from the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Germany includes pieces by such names as Ruth Rendell, Ed McBain, Barbara Hambly, Ian Rankin, and Joyce Carol Oates.

Pattern of Murder

Pattern of Murder PDF Author: John Russell Fearn
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1434448363
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 182

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For cinema projectionist Sid Elbridge, it seems that things can't get much worse. First, circumstantial evidence has made him the prime suspect in the police investigation of a robbery at the cinema where he works. Secondly, his fiancée Vera has been horribly killed in the same theatre, victim of a falling light fixture. Then he discovers strange, intricate patterns traced in the dust on the wooden frame of a still-case. There's something very wrong about this "accident," he now realizes, and begins investigating what actually happened. Slowly he realizes that a ruthless murderer is lurking in the shadows, and only Sid can uncover the PATTERN OF MURDER! Another great mystery story by a British master of intricate plot twists.

The Tattoo Murders

The Tattoo Murders PDF Author: John Russell Fearn
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1587155036
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 138

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Mary, Ian, Lil are three rather ordinary names. But when these names are each found tattooed on the backs of three murder victims, they are steppingstones on a murder trail that baffles Scotland Yard investigators. A story that grips from first page to last, Murder's A Must is one of John Russell Fearn's finest detective mysteries

Charlie Chan in the Pawns of Death

Charlie Chan in the Pawns of Death PDF Author: Bill Pronzini
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1592240100
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 110

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"Checkmate!" That was the last word uttered to Charlie Chan and Prefect of Police Claude DeBevre by a dying reporter. It is the second murder in 24 hours at the Transcontinental Chess Tournament, and Chan has been summoned from a peaceful vacation to help solve the crime before international scandal ruins the tournament's good name.

Alibi and Dr. Morelle

Alibi and Dr. Morelle PDF Author: Ernest Dudley
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1587156342
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 166

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At the time that Ted Patrick is planning to pull off his biggest house-breaking job, Dr. Morelle, aided as ever by Miss Frayle, sets up an off-beat criminological experiment, which is destined to have unexpected results. The success of Ted Patrick's coup, achieved with the inside help of a pretty blonde, Myra Campbell, is marred by the killing of a village policeman. Patrick gets away with the loot but runs into trouble when his cleverly planned alibi crumbles dramatically. In a last desperate effort to keep himself in the clear, he deliberately becomes involved in Dr. Morelle's strange scheme. At first it seems that Ted Patrick's luck will hold, but he reckons without Dr. Morelle . . . and without Myra Campbell herself!

Robbery Without Violence

Robbery Without Violence PDF Author: John Russell Fearn
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1434449351
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 183

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In "Robbery Without Violence," gold worth fifty million pounds vanishes overnight from an impregnable bank vault, Chief Inspector Hargraves of Scotland Yard finds himself completely baffled. And when the owner of the bank then dies under mysterious circumstances, Hargraves is again spurred to seek outside help from scientist Sawley Garson, a specialist in solving "impossible" crimes. But can even he explain the inexplicable? Also included in this collection is "Death at the Observatory." Two baffling science fiction crime stories by a master of the classic mystery tale.

Shattering Glass

Shattering Glass PDF Author: John Russell Fearn
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1434437280
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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The girl had been lying dead all night. There'd been a terrible struggle, but in the end, the woman had lost her life to the jagged top of a cologne bottle--her jugular vein severed. Suspicious immediately falls on Richard Lane, who'd planned to meet the deceased at seven o'clock, just before she died. But is Richard really the killer? Only criminal psychologist Dr. Adam Castle can unravel the perplexing mystery. An edge-of-the seat thriller torn from the pages of the 1940s magazines. First of the Dr. Castle series.

One Way Out

One Way Out PDF Author: John Russell Fearn
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1434449513
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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On a train trip to Scotland with his chief clerk Martin Lee, London financier Morgan Dale is suddenly confronted by his embittered ex-Secretary, whom he's recently sacked. Janice Elton had once been obsessed with him, but the happily married Dale had spurned her romantic advances. Now, Janice wants her revenge. Returning to their carriage, Lee finds Dale alone with the dead body of Janice, whom Dale claims has committed suicide by taking strychnine. With the situation incriminating Dale, Lee advises him to remove any identification and throw the girl's body from the train. But when the police eventually identify her and come to believe she's been murdered, Lee begins to blackmail Dale. And then there's only One Way Out....