A SUMMER OF MYSTERY!<P> This is the story of young Steve and Linda and their exciting vacation in a Maine seacoast town. Into their days of summer fun came a number of interesting characters and the strange story of the past of Graveyard Head…<P> What were the weird, moving lights out on the ocean? Who had stolen Linda's painting of the «Dead Ship» from the summer art show? What was behind the mysterious Wiggins and his cunnin ...
Take a nice guy with healthy instincts…put a dead man's eyes in his head…and you have the recipe for a nightmare!<P> Zachary Anders meant no harm. He was a blinded veteran who had been willed the eyes of an executed murderer. But with Zachary's regained sight came an obsession – he had the clear the name of the dead man who had allowed him to see again.<P> When Zachary began to look around, trouble started. He saw a foul ...
Fletcher Flora (1914-1968) wrote or co-wrote sixteen novels under his own name plus ghost-wrote three as Ellery Queen. He penned many short stories for a variety of mystery magazines and anthologies in the 1950s and 1960s. This volume includes:<P> I’ll Kill for You<br> I’ll Race You<br> In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree ...
Welcome to the third volume of The Black Cat Mystery Community’s THRILLOGY series, celebrating classic mystery short stories. Included this time are three classic tales by James Holding: «Career Man,» «The Tahitian Powder Box Mystery,» and «A Deal in Rubies.» ...
The Suicide Hour. Four A.M., when resistance is lowest. For one particular young woman, the hour has a special meaning…and she often wakes a night, terrified…and unsure exactly why. <P>The puzzle unravels slowly. What happened to her father? Did he really abandon his wife and children, as everyone thinks? Or did something more sinister occur? Her mother and brother can offer little help or information. Mr. White, her father's busines ...
From the Edgar Award-winning author of They Buried a Man comes a novel of strangling horror! <P> "As a thriller or serious novel, powerful and rewarding." – Anthony Boucher, New York Times<P> Mildred B. Davis is an American novelist whose books generally fall into the suspense/mystery genre. Katherine (Davis) Roome, her daughter, and a published author herself, helped Mildred break a 30-year publishing silence by working with ...
This volume collects both of Sasscer Hill's Janet Simpson stories, featuring the amateur detective in the world of horse racing: PRETTY FRAUDULENT and VENEMOUS. Both stories appeared previously in separate volumes of the Chesapeake Crimes anthology series. <P> “If you miss the late Dick Francis’s racetrack thrillers, you’ll be intrigued by Sasscer Hill’s Racing From Death.” —The Washington Post, August 29, 2012 ...
Thomas Thursday (1894–1974) was a lesser-known pulp writer who ended up having one of the longest careers writing for the pulp magazines. His first published short story, “A Stroke of Genius,” appeared in Top-Notch (April 1, 1918 issue). He submitted the story to them after finding an old issue in the subway.<P> He used the penname “Thursday” after glancing at a calendar. His real name remains a mystery. He was still appearing in the pulp ...
"When Pyro made his planned escape from the penitentiary, his former criminal associates were waiting for him with a getaway car. The gang had been promised a share of the vast fortune Pyro had hidden away before the law had caught up with him. But instead of taking them straight to his buried cache, Pyro ordered a detour to the small town of Onnaville, where he blackmailed a plastic surgeon into giving him a new face. <P> The Docto ...
