Monday, September 30, 2019
Principal Characters
GEORGE JACKSON
Since splitting up with his wife, he had seen her occasionally but then he met Lee—and no other woman would do!
HENRY CONLEY
He came to George with $7,000. When he died George didn't know what to do with the money—or Henry's wife either!
LEE CONLEY
Tall, voluptuous. Next to her Lady Godiva looked like the winner of a baby contest. But no man could unlock the secret she kept from the world!
FRANCIS F. HENDERSON
George's retired neighbor. He played poker to win money and loved to look into his neighbor's windows. He gave his age as reason enough for both forms of indulgence.
JOE COLLINS
Worked for same company as George. A middle-aged Romeo, he got quite a shock when his son came home from overseas and acted just like him!
WALT COLLINS
Joe's son. His father had planned for him to go to college when he was discharged but the Army had taught Walt a lot, and he was changed now, changed into a wise guy—with angles!
FLO JACKSON
George's estranged wife. She saw him every now and then and they tried to start over, but when Lee came into the picture, her chances sank to a new low!
Monday, September 23, 2019
If
you find Holmes and Poirot insufficiently cerebral, a little too
everyday action hero, then Zaleski is the detective for you. Exiled and
lovelorn, he broods alone (but for a black manservant, of whom frankly
the less said the better) in a wing of a ruined abbey set among
cypresses and poplars. We first see him reclining beside a
partially-unwrapped mummy, "discarding his gemmed chibouque and an old
vellum reprint of Anacreon". From the opulent, narcotic haze of this
sanctum he declines to shift for the first two adventures, unravelling
otherwise insoluble mysteries of ancestral curses and ancient gems
simply from what is reported to him by the narrator Shiel, who might
thus be considered a far more poetically-inclined Watson. Shiel
considered himself Doyle's superior, and the solutions are exactly the
sort of thing someone might come up with when they're trying to outdo
Holmes but haven't twigged the very precise - if indefinable - limits of
fairness in a puzzle; everything hinges on word association, dubious
scholarship and the like, such that the reader's reaction is less likely
to be 'Good heavens!' that 'You what?' But in Holmes the intricate
solutions were only ever part of the appeal, and in Zaleski they're
barely even that. It's the atmosphere that matters. And in the last of
these three original stories*, that atmosphere is whipped into such a
ferment that you start to wonder if Shiel (the writer) was receiving
some distorted yet overwhelming vision of the future. True, there is the
line at which one can only respond with a hollow laugh, where Zaleski
tells his friend that war will doubtless be extinct within their
lifetimes. But otherwise...an epidemic of murder and insanity which
begins in Germany. Eugenic tirades. Visions of a future society in which
technological advancement goes hand-in-hand with sacrificial hecatombs
devoted to preserving the purity of the race. And the story is entitled
'The S.S.'.
Sunday, August 18, 2019
Fifty Years A Detective by Thomas Furlong
Thirty five true stories told by a man who was a detective for fifty years. A remarkable book.
This hardcover book is equipped with a colorful dust jacket. It is great for gifts, libraries, and home libraries.
There is a paperback available HERE and an epub available HERE.
Thirty five true stories told by a man who was a detective for fifty years. A remarkable book.
This hardcover book is equipped with a colorful dust jacket. It is great for gifts, libraries, and home libraries.
There is a paperback available HERE and an epub available HERE.
Thursday, July 25, 2019
The Obstinate Murderer by Elizabeth Sanxay Holding
“Elisabeth Sanxay Holding's novel, THE OBSTINATE MURDERER, is decidedly different from the average story of its type. With a beautiful country guest house for background, the author draws the reader into the sinister web of fear and terror which holds the occupants of the house in its grasp. Van Cleef, the detective, becomes one of the central characters in a charming romance which affords him some relief from the horrible chain of events which follows. “As usual, it is just one little stroke, far too clever, which gives the murderer away, but the mystery connoisseur must be wide-awake to discover it.”
This is an epub, suitable for ALL devices and computers. Microsoft Edge and a few other browsers can audibly READ it to you. A quality paperback is available at low cost HERE.
“Elisabeth Sanxay Holding's novel, THE OBSTINATE MURDERER, is decidedly different from the average story of its type. With a beautiful country guest house for background, the author draws the reader into the sinister web of fear and terror which holds the occupants of the house in its grasp. Van Cleef, the detective, becomes one of the central characters in a charming romance which affords him some relief from the horrible chain of events which follows. “As usual, it is just one little stroke, far too clever, which gives the murderer away, but the mystery connoisseur must be wide-awake to discover it.”
This is an epub, suitable for ALL devices and computers. Microsoft Edge and a few other browsers can audibly READ it to you. A quality paperback is available at low cost HERE.
Friday, July 19, 2019
A Traitor in London by Fergus Hume is a British tale of espionage and mystery.
A murder in the quiet English village of Chippingholt is only the first in a series of trials that will shape the lives of Brenda Scarse and her lover Harold Burton. Who is the mysterious stranger, so closely resembling Brenda's father, who was seen near the scene of the crime? And why does the dead man's widow seem so unconcerned?
A murder in the quiet English village of Chippingholt is only the first in a series of trials that will shape the lives of Brenda Scarse and her lover Harold Burton. Who is the mysterious stranger, so closely resembling Brenda's father, who was seen near the scene of the crime? And why does the dead man's widow seem so unconcerned?
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Wednesday, July 17, 2019
Doorway to Death by Dan Marlowe
On the streets of a big city people smile and the lights are bright. But there is an alley world of darkness, double-dealing and death; in this world you need muscles and brains to take a step--and only the lucky ones live long. These two worlds meet in Hotel Duarte. Johnny Killain had a fistful of experience with both worlds--and with Hotel Duarte. Lurid and sexy, this is a thrilling tale.
Dan J. Marlowe was a middle-aged businessman who, in the personal turmoil after the death of his wife of many years, decided to abandon his old life. He started writing, and his first novel was published when he was 45.
Marlowe's most famous book and his best-known character arrived from Fawcett Gold Medal Books in 1962 ("The Name of the Game Is Death").
On the streets of a big city people smile and the lights are bright. But there is an alley world of darkness, double-dealing and death; in this world you need muscles and brains to take a step--and only the lucky ones live long. These two worlds meet in Hotel Duarte. Johnny Killain had a fistful of experience with both worlds--and with Hotel Duarte. Lurid and sexy, this is a thrilling tale.
Dan J. Marlowe was a middle-aged businessman who, in the personal turmoil after the death of his wife of many years, decided to abandon his old life. He started writing, and his first novel was published when he was 45.
Marlowe's most famous book and his best-known character arrived from Fawcett Gold Medal Books in 1962 ("The Name of the Game Is Death").
Monday, June 24, 2019
Alley Girl by Jonathan Craig
Alley Girl is a hard book, cold and cruel, peopled with toughs and alcoholics, a nymphomaniac and an unfaithful wife, a savage cop and a young pervert. It is also a fine novel, written with rare and stark simplicity by the talented young author, Jonathan Craig.
Alley Girl is a hard book, cold and cruel, peopled with toughs and alcoholics, a nymphomaniac and an unfaithful wife, a savage cop and a young pervert. It is also a fine novel, written with rare and stark simplicity by the talented young author, Jonathan Craig.
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