"If you want a feel for the real Fifties in the form of a grim caper novel, this is your book. It's tight, deftly plotted and one of those hardboiled novels that is genuinely tough without showing off." – Ed Gorman<P> Greg Driscoll, a wealthy and respected businessman, has two cars, an upscale suburban home, a ten-year-old son off at summer camp, and a beautiful wife. And three ex-G.I.s recently released from Leavenworth want hi ...
Tim and his sister Vicki, along with their new friend Joey, hunt for a meteorite they saw fall from outer space – but run into unexpected complications, including the disappearance of a telescope. And why is someone trespassing on their property and blinking colored lights at night? Something is up, and only the three kids can solve the mystery! Another classic Mary Adrian mystery. ...
"The Babe from Hell!" gasped Andre Marceau just as the wire rightened around his neck. A second later he lay sprawled on the ground – dead. Close by his body were the tracks of tiny footsteps, beginning nowhere and leading nowhere…the only clues to one of the most shocking crimes of the Twentieth Century!<P> That was the beginning of a mystery that Scotland Yark sleuths worked on frantically for two years and then abandoned in despai ...
In one jump, Marty Bowman made it from lifeguard to bodyguard – and what a body! Her name was Kate. She hired him as her protector and/or playmate. She took him to a luxurious desert hideaway. All of which was fine with Marty – until his lucky silver dollar turned up in the fingers of a corpse. One of the guests was out to frame him, maybe murder him!<P> Marty figured he and his gun could make out even against guys as dangerous as Dr. Cro ...
When Con Satterlee picked up the half-intoxicated blonde in the Bamboo Bar, Griselda was annoyed. When he walked out with the blonde, leaving Griselda flat, she was furious. She was frightened, too, returning alone to the isolated, ramshackle beach cottage. And this was to have been their second honeymoon!<P> Con came back rattling a handful of shells which he said he had taken from the blonde’s revolver. But the blonde didn’t come back. ...
Lovely Ann Cramer made a cozy alibi for Jason Broome – and Craddock made his favorite corpse. But when Anne swore to the police that she had spent that whole kiss-and-kill night with him, was she really saving Jason from the hot seat…or luring him into MURDER WITHOUT TEARS! ...
Cleveland Moffett is most famous for his mystery story «The Mysterious Card» ((included in this volume, along with its sequel), but he also wrote true crime and more traditional mysteries. Also included here are the long novel THROUGH THE WALL and a collection of true crime stories, TRUE DETECTIVE STORIES FROM THE ARCHIVES OF THE PINKERTONS. Enjoy!<P> If you enjoy this ebook, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for «Wild ...
If only Japan could lay her hands on the Thirteenth Coin of Confuscius, which was floating around somewhere in the United States, she could thwart a certain Chinese ambition. The Japanese Secret Service in New York had a clue and immediately a Japanese Secret Service Agent boarded the Chicago Flyer and never took his eyes of a white passenter with a short gray beard. It was the passenger's raincoat that the Secret Agent had his eyes on, and ...
