Move over, Jessica Fletcher and Miss Marple!
Make room for another aging woman amateur sleuth--Carolyne Santire, plant-hunter extraordinaire! Carolyne's search for the next major botanical find takes her to Brazil in South America, where she encounters political machinations, mayhem, and...murder. The suspect list is long--fellow scientists, Brazilian land barons, prospectors, a cuckolded video director,... [click here for more]
The original 1939 blurb for this story reads: "Molding corpses stalk darkness as fate cuts a grim, macabre jigsaw of death!" Today you would accept a zombie story, as with the hit TV show "The Walking Dead," but in the original pages of the pulp magazine Thrilling Mystery, you get the opposite — a classic crime story by one of the best pulp writers of the era. The dead may walk, but there... [click here for more]
Originally published under the pseudonym "Harrington Strong" in DETECTIVE STORY WEEKLY (June 18, 1921 issue), this short mystery novel by the creator of Zorro has never been reprinted.
Note: This digital edition includes the PDF, ePub and Mobi (Kindle) versions of the book. ... [click here for more]
The Hardboiled Mystery MEGAPACK presents 4 classic crime novels from the era when hardboiled detectives ruled the American newsstands. Included are:
The Hollow Man, by John Roeburt (1954) Model for Murder, by Stephen Marlowe (1955) Blonde Bait, by Ed Lacy (1959) Beauty Can Kill, by Michael McCretton (1962)
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The Johnston McCulley MegapackTM collects 15 tales of mystery, detection, and adventure by the creator of Zorro -- more than 500 pages of great reading. Included are: THE MAN WHO CHANGED ROOMS DIAMONDS, DIRT, AND DUTY A CROOK WITHOUT HONOR PODDIN'S MISTAKE INITIATING NOGGINS ETERNAL ASSETS SLAVE OF MYSTERY THE OBVIOUS CLUE RUN TO GROUND THE ONLY WAY THE GREAT GREEN... [click here for more]