After a thousand pages and more sidetrips through the backwoods of Chicago than you can imagine, the story of the man standing on the corner with the crimson hatbox is completed. Finally we find out why the defendant, when asked by the archbishop what was in the box, replied «Wah Lee's skull. I cracked Vann’s pete.» But not without some of the most incredible courtroom hijinks in the history of jurisprudence. And it's told as only Harr ...
The scene of this story is a fascinating one: the Connecticut workshop of the country's foremost stained-glass window artist. This eccentric man, Frederick Ullathorne, has fled New York to escape reporters, friends, scandal and interruptions of all kinds while he finishes his life work, a magnificent rose window for St. John's Cathedral. This is harshly interrupted early one morning when bones are found in the furnace of the workshop c ...
James Michael Ullman (1925-1997) was an American novelist and newspaper writer/editor known for his work in and about the Chicago area. Ullman served in World War II and the U.S. Navy for two and a half years, and also served as an Air Force civilian employee on Guam. He was educated at Chicago's Wright Junior College and De Paul University, eventually receiving a Masters in Journalism from Northwestern University in 1954. He became a newsp ...
The masked woman called herself Madame Madcap, and she gathered a gang of cutthroats determined to loot high society of all its riches . . . starting with the notorious womanizer Hamilton Brone. She worked her criminal magic . . . and grew rich as millionaires swooned at her feet. Members of her gang worshipped her. She could do no wrong. And yet a curious pattern began to emerge, and a strange vengeance took shape – not just against the men of ...
"A beautiful blonde with something to hide… A youthful and puzzled doctor… A pretty – and frightened – teenager… A very rich, very angry young man… Each set out that night, unaware that at least one of them had a bizarre date with death. Once you start, you won't be able to stop reading this irresistible mystery by «„that consummate artist LESLIE FORD.“» (Philadephia Bulletin). ""High quality." – Los Angeles ...
Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine #23 features the best in contemporary and classic mystery fiction, with a great linup of crimes and columns. Here are:<p> Features:<BR> From Watson's Notebook, by John H. Watson, M. D.<BR> Ask Mrs Hudson, by (Mrs) Martha Hudson<p> Non Fiction:<BR> Screen of the Crime, by Kim Newman<BR> Sherlock Holmes – in the Cards, by Gary Lovisi<p> Fiction:<BR> THE B ...
A man standing in a darkened room notices that someone is breaking in via the window. He waits until the intruder is inside then holds him at gunpoint. The two then embark on the most audacious conversation any author has ever had the nerve to write. By the end of the book you'll be exhausted by the tales each man tells, each more unbelievable than the last. The climax will leave you gasping! ...
It's 1935. Ace daredevil pilot «Lucky» James is murdered moments after landing in New York following a record-breaking, nonstop solo flight from Egypt, it's up to Detective-Captain McCord to solve the case. A classic pulp novelet from the September, 1935 issue of Popular Detective! ...
