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Shannon's Imperial Circus was a jinxed space-carny leased for a mysterious tour of the inner worlds. It made a one-night pitch on a Venusian swamp-town—to find that death stalked it from the jungle in a tiny ball of flame! Classic science fiction. ...
Cecil Jonathan Amherst – who goes by the handle Leavenworth Louis – is a master forger with a heart. One day in Miami Beach, he spots a young woman who is crying. Leavenworth Louis slipps a twenty into her purse—and that's when the trouble starts… ...
It’s 1855, and with a war over slavery looming on the horizon, all bachelor Clark Shellcross wants to do is get married. But when his hopes are dashed he succumbs to temptation and takes a weird drug that claims it will change his life. And it does! He wakes up the next morning with black skin! It doesn’t take long for him to realize that 1855 is not a good time to have darkly hued skin, even in the northern city of Boston.<P> The story o ...
Irresponsible spender (and bank robber) Michael decides to pull an insurance scam on his car. He has certain debts to pay off to a gang boss. It’s easy to organize the scam with the help of a chop shop owner and an insurance man, but it turns out they have plans of their own… ...
And in a copse close by to where the body of the murdered man was found had been discovered a thick bludgeon of a stick, broken it would seem by some violent act, into two halves. On the top half was rudely cut with a pen-knife M. ASSHE . . . What was puzzling, however, was the apparent motive of robbery about the crime. ...
Freeman Wills Crofts (1879-1957) was one of Canada's formost mystery authors. The Ponson Case, which features Inspector Tanner, is a complex mystery sure to appeal to fans of J.S. Fletcher and other Golden Age authors. ...
Jimmy Lee dreams of replacing rhino horn with a cheaper ingredient in old Liu Kam Fan's secret formula for Heavenly Heavenly Happiness Salt. It will make millions. But Liu Kam Fan doesn't want to listen to reason. The old ways are good enough… ...
