Author: John Gregory Betancourt
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1434417735
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 154
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This issue of ADVENTURE TALES includes 3 stories by H. Bedford-Jones ("Mustered Out," "The Badman's Brand," and "Surprise in Sulphur Springs") plus "The Fugitive Statue," by Vincent Starrett (featuring detective Jimmy Lavender), "Miracle," by John D. Swain, "The Devil's Heirloom," by Anthony M. Rud, "The Tapir," by Arthur O. Friel," "Thubway Tham's Dog," by Johnston McCulley, "Lancelot Biggs Cooks a Pirate," by Nelson S. Bond, and "Payable to Bearer," a crime novelet by Talbot Mundy. Poetry by Avram Davidson, Poul Anderson, Clark Ashton Smith, and Fritz Leiber.
Author: Johnston McCulley
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781986247276
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 206
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Thubway Tham -- A lisping pickpocket harboring delusions of grandeur; The Crimson Clown -- A "gentleman thief" justifying his crimes with charitable donations; Baron Bleud -- His legitimate business fronts hide the revenue from his criminal enterprises. With the police dogging his every step, Thubway Tham decides to lay low - but The Crimson Clown has other plans. Tham will aid him in lifting priceless jewels from The Baron ... or die! This Bold Venture edition collects the complete text of Johnston McCulley's novel for the first time! Originally presented in Detective Story Magazine, this story was an unusual for its time -- two popular characters joining forces in one story. Such "crossovers" are commonplace today in comic books, but Thubway Tham Meets the Crimson Clown no doubt made McCulley's fans sit up and take notice!
Author: Maurice Leblanc
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 147940456X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 2158
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Sure, you can root for Sherlock Holmes or Charlie Chan or Hugh Drummond. But I'll take a good old-fashioned rogue over the lot of 'em any day. Boston Blackie, A.J. Raffles, the Lone Wolf, Thubway Tham, Mr. Clackworthy, Arsene Lupin -- they all hold a curious fascination, dabbling as they do in crime and punishment! So take a walk on the seamy side of the Victorian era. (And yes, we are cheating with the dates a little bit. But we wanted to include a few latter-day rogues whose adventures are in the spirit of their Victorian compatriots.) All told, it's more than 1,900 pages of great reading! Included are: The Adventures of Colonel Clay, by Grant Allen THE EPISODE OF THE MEXICAN SEER THE EPISODE OF THE DIAMOND LINKS THE EPISODE OF THE OLD MASTER THE EPISODE OF THE TYROLEAN CASTLE THE EPISODE OF THE DRAWN GAME THE EPISODE OF THE GERMAN PROFESSOR THE EPISODE OF THE ARREST OF THE COLONEL THE EPISODE OF THE SELDON GOLD-MINE THE EPISODE OF THE JAPANNED DISPATCH-BOX THE EPISODE OF THE GAME OF POKER THE EPISODE OF THE BERTILLON METHOD THE EPISODE OF THE OLD BAILEY THE COUNT'S CHAUFFEUR, by William Le Queux BOSTON BLACKIE, by Jack Boyle THE CHAIR OF PHILANTHROMATHEMATICS, by O. Henry THUBWAY THAM, by Johnston McCulley THE EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURES OF ARSÈNE LUPIN, GENTLEMAN-BURGLAR, by Maurice Leblanc THE LONE WOLF, by Louis Joseph Vance ALIAS THE LONE WOLF, by Louis Joseph Vance A ROGUE'S LIFE, by Wilkie Collins THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND SWAG, by Robert Barr JEFF PETERS AS A PERSONAL MAGNET, by O. Henry THE ASSASSINS' CLUB, by Gelett Burgess MR. CLACKWORTHY TELLS THE TRUTH, by Christopher B. Booth THE CLUE OF THE SILVER SPOONS, by Robert Barr JEM BINNEY AND THE SAFE AT LOCKWOOD HALL, by William Hope Hodgson A COSTUME PIECE, by E.W. Hornung CONSTANCE DUNLAP, by Arthur B. Reeve If you enjoy this book, search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see the 170+ entries in the MEGAPACKTM series, covering science fiction, fantasy, horror, mysteries, westerns, classics, adventure stories, and much, much more!
Author: Johnston McCulley
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1479404497
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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Thubway Tham is a small, short-tempered gnome of a man, a professional pickpocket with an annoying lisp. But he is no mere thief...he is the king of his chosen profession, a master "dip" who works only in the subways of New York City. Like all such villains, he faces a cunning adversary in Police Detective Craddock, who is always half a pace behind. Craddock has sworn to put Tham behind bars, where he belongs. But Tham is clever enough to always remain one step ahead of Craddock -- and everyone else. Despite being a criminal, Tham always comes off well: the people whom he relieves of their wallets are often deserving of it, and he has a tendency to take on other, much worse crooks to give them their just desserts. And, of course, there are scoundrels aplenty in his world: a rival pickpocket who moves in on his turf in "Thubway Tham's Baggage Check;" Shifty Shane, the holdup man, who calls Tham a coward because he doesn't use a gun; and Mr. Clackworthy, a slick grifter from Chicago, who looks down on "dips" as the lowest of thieves. Call him an early antihero. Tham endears himself to readers because he has a moral compass. He knows his place is in the gutter of the world, but that doesn't mean he can't strive to better himself -- or others. Included are: Introduction, by John Gregory Betancourt Thubway Tham's Inthane Moment Thubway Tham's Thanksgiving Dinner Thubway Tham's Understudy Thubway Tham's Baggage Check Thubway Tham, Philanthropist Thubway Tham's Chrithtmath Thubway Tham's Glorious Fourth Thubway Tham's Holdup Thubway Tham Meets Mr. Clackworthy Thubway Tham's Inthult All stories originally appeared in Detective Story Magazine.
Author: Christopher B. Booth
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1434446166
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 173
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The Adventures of Mr. Clackworthy presents 8 tales of Christopher Booth's antihero -- Amos Clackworthy, swindler extraordinaire. Together with his henchman The Early Bird, Mr. Clackworthy pursues a life of crime, preying on those who deserve to be conned. Included in this volume are: MR. CLACKWORTHY: AN INTRODUCTION, by Steve Lewis MR. CLACKWORTHY TELLS THE TRUTH MR. CLACKWORTHY WITHIN THE LAW MR. CLACKWORTHY’S PIPE DREAM MR. CLACKWORTHY TURNS CHEMIST MR. CLACKWORTHY DIGS A HOLE MR. CLACKWORTHY REVIVES A TOWN MR. CLACKWORTHY SELLS SHORT MR. CLACKWORTHY’S POT OF GOLD
Author: Christopher B. Booth
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1557425272
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174
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Eight short stories featuring Amos Clackworthy and The Early Bird, two Chicago conmen, taken from the pages of the classic pulp fiction magazine, Detective Story Magazine. Introduction by Steve Lewis. Part of the Wildside Pulp Classics series.
Author: Esther Friesner
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1479470724
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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Welcome to Black Cat Weekly #17—another fun issue, with great mystery and science fiction short stories, classic novels, and more! The lineup this time: Mysteries / Suspense: “Smart Cookie,” by Hal Charles [Solve-It-Yourself Mystery] “Shanks Gets Mugged,” by Robert Lopresti [short story] “Thubway Tham Reforms,” by Johnston McCulley [short story] “The Man in the Dick Tracy Hat” by Elizabeth Zelvin [Barb Goffman Presents short story] The Seal of Gijon, by Nicholas Carter [novel] Science Fiction & Fantasy: “The Hour of Their Need,” by Amy Wolf [Cynthia Ward Presents short story] “Dragonet,” by Esther Friesner [Darrell Schweitzer Presents short story] “Vengeance in Her Bones,” by Malcolm Jameson [short story] “Taste Taste,” by Larry Tritten [short story] Secret of the Martians, by Paul W. Fairman [novel]
Author: de Vere H. Stacpoole
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 0809511479
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 202
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Stacpoole, author of the classic novel The Blue Lagoon, weaves his special magic throughout this collection of shorter works from the pulp magazines of the early 20th century. Here are tales full of the languor of the tropics, the hypnotism of the "meadows of gold," and the "eternal song" of the Southern Seas -- combined with mystery, romance, adventure, and the lyrical prose of a master storyteller!
Author: Robert Reginald
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 0941028534
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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Ghostly novellas by Granville Barker, Maris Herrington Billings, Blarence B. Kelland, Paul Lafargue, and John Oxenham.
Author: Jean Webster
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1434400913
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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It was through the Patterson-Pratt forgery case that I first made the acquaintance of Terry Patten, and at the time I should have been more than willing to forego the pleasure. Our firm rarely dealt with criminal cases, but the Patterson family were long standing clients, and they naturally turned to us when the trouble came. Ordinarily, so important a matter would have been put in the hands of one of the older men, but it happened that I was the one who had drawn up the will for Patterson Senior the night before his suicide, therefore the brunt of the work devolved upon me. The most unpleasant part of the whole affair was the notoriety. Could we have kept it from the papers, it would not have been so bad, but that was a physical impossibility; Terry Patten was on our track, and within a week he had brought down upon us every newspaper in New York.
