Monday, December 28, 2020

Bat Man by Lew Merrill


This is not the character of the same name from the comic books.  This is a horror and suspense tale of a man who becomes a bat --- or is it the other way around?

Basil by Wilkie Collins


In Basil's secret and unconsummated marriage to the linen-draper's sexually precocious daughter, and the shocking betrayal, insanity, and death that follow, Wilkie Collins reveals the bustling, commercial London of the 19th century wreaking its vengeance on a still powerful aristocratic world.  This is a mystery and a novel of sexual suspense and experimentation, early for its time.

Ambrose Lavendale, Diplomat by E. Phillips Oppenheim


Mr Ambrose Lavendale. a young English-American diplomat, leaves the Embassy service to work as a secret agent in London during World War One. He meets Mlle. Suzanne de Frayne, who is similarly employed by the French, while he is shadowing a scientist who has developed a formula for a lethal gas explosive. In a series of connected stories, the pair uncover German spies, foil plots to divert munitions from the Allies, steal secret weapons, and fall in love.