Wenzell Brown's true crime expose of teenage juvenile delinquency, originally published in 1958, is a less sensationalistic than its original 1950s cover would suggest. The original cover copy proclaimed: «The inside story of juvenile delinquency told in actual cases of violence and sex.» ...
When a young, cocky Chicago newspaper reporter turns away a woman with a scandal to tell, he ends up fired when she’s murdered before the day is through. Can he put the pieces together? ...
Miss Violet Marsh was orphaned at fourteen years of age, when she went to live with her Uncle Andrew in Devon. Now Uncle Devon has died, leaving a will with a strange clause. Can Poirot unravel the mystery? ...
Poirot and Hastings investigate the death of an Italian count found alone and dead in a locked apartment – his head crushed in by a small marble statue. ...
It's tough being a damn'd Yankee reporter in Southern City, but life just gets worse when the nude bodies of two women – one white, one black – are found dead in Cattail Swamp with their heads cut off and swapped. Of course the only way to identify them is to have the bodies on display so every person in Southern City can see them. With such an organized ritual, how can ace reporter Tommy Skirmont ever hope to solve the mystery and kee ...
What kind of book would be printed on orange leaves? It could only be the one book that contains all of the wisdom of the ancient Chinese, as told in hundreds of aphorisms —The Way Out. Featured in a half dozen webwork mysteries by Harry Stephen Keeler, The Way Out is the only thing keeping one-handed Stefan Czeszcziczki’s wife alive as she awaits an operation. How “Zicky” uses its wisdom to save her life is a tale only America’s most forgotten ...
"One of the beat mysteries of the year." – Providence Journal <P>When an innocent young woman finds herself knee-deep in gambling – and up to her beautiful neck in debts – there's apt to be trouble.... And trouble is what Janey Blake had plenty of. She had written a pile of bad checks. And she was fighting to keep her husband from the arms of another woman.... <P>But other people had trouble too. Doc Wemitz, for example. ...
Isaac Stoltzfuss had seen many changes and put up with much since his boyhood on the Stoltzfuss family farm. But the Russian satellite, as described in the pages of the Lancaster New Era, was just too much. ...
In the first place, Grandfather Rastin never should have bought that house in Wiston. It happened several years ago, when he was only about seventy-eight, but even so he was old enough to know better. He admits that himself. <P> In the second place, he should have asked his tenants for references. <P> He did buy the house, and he didn't ask for references, and that's where the trouble started… <P> Lloyd Biggle, ...
