When a plan to celebrate the town of Dexter, Pennsylvania's Civil War history threatens to derail a Congressman's political career, steps must be taken! A comic tale by short story master Jacob Hay. ...
Vice and murder prowl Chicago–and one man hunts a killer through the glittering Gold Coast and seamy back alleys! Edgar Award Winner for Best First Novel (1948). ...
This collection of six classic stories introduces Reggie Fortune, a country doctor with a passion for sweets – and a lackluster work ethic. But Reggie may have found his true calling when he stumbles into mysteries! ...
The condemned man asked for three things before he climbed the thirteen steps to the gallows: a glass eye, a champagne cork and a wooden parrakeet. Can any mystery writer—other than Chicago paper blackener Harry Stephen Keeler—have proposed such a scenario? And then written a huge meganovel filled with celestials and tong lore to explain why the condemned man should make such a request? ...
Jack Halliday is an author, award-winning screenwriter and consulting producer whose work has appeared in numerous digital and print publications. His first fiction collection, «Kawanga/Swan Song and Other Mystery Stories,» was published by Wildside Press as their 12th Mystery Double. This volume collects 3 of his great stories:<P> FINDING PHYLLIS<BR> IN THE BLOOD<BR> THE WOMAN IN THE ELEVATOR ...
19 essays on Sherlock Holmes and most especially Doctor Watson, written with a doctor's appreciation. Included are:<P> Doctor Watson and the Weather<BR> The Anatomical Sherlock Holmes<BR> “Brain Fever” and Sherlock Holmes<BR> Curare and Sherlock Holmes<BR> Sherlock Holmes and the Portuguese Man-of-War<BR> Doctor Watson and Nervous Maladies<BR> Dogs and Sherlock Holmes<BR> The Botanical ...
