Siblings Julian, Dick, and Anne have come to Kirrin to spend the remainder of a school holiday with their tomboy cousin, George, and her dog, Timmy. When a mysterious girl arrives at Kirrin Cottage in the middle of the night, George and her cousins are thrilled. Berta is an American girl trying to elude kidnappers, and the Kirrin Household has been asked to protect and disguise her. Berta cuts her hair, dons boys' clothes, and is transforme ...
When Danny sees Red, a beautiful Irish setter, he knows this is the only dog for him. Their adventures will bring them up against one of the kings of the wilderness – a killer bear named Old Majesty. ...
Put death to the weird music of insanity. Take murder in the madhouse. Add a perfect wife about to lose her husband because his first wife may return from a living grave. Mix seven strangely assorted lives weaving dark patterns of political intrigue and violence – and let a young doctor, with a reputation to clear, uncover the sequence of events behind the too sudden madness of a beautiful woman. <P> Acclaimed as one of the «Ten Best» by ...
Ferry Diamond is a mobster with his fingers in nearly every pie: illegal betting, horse racing, stolen cars. When one of his mechanics decides to quit the racket, he finds it isn't so easy to escape… ...
When Jim comes home early, he finds a man sneaking out the back door of his house. Of course, being the jealous type, he can't help but take his revenge, and in typical Gil Brewer style, things spiral out of control from there. ...
Zelda’s Tavern was at the crossroads, and most of the local boys, farmers’ sons and youngsters from the tiny town of Liggon’s Falls, congregated there for a cold beer about eight o’clock each night. Sometimes they brought dates, but that was a rarity since the area was notoriously short of eligible females. That didn’t include the summer vacationists from New York City, of course… And that's where the trouble started. ...
When the police arrested Harry Sauer, a hitch-hiker carrying a knife and a briefcase full of loot, they got out their rubber hoses and went to work on a deep mystery. A classic pulp story from Detective Story Classics, January 6, 1934. ...
Originally published April 22, 1911, here is issue #743 of the New Nick Carter Weekly. This ebook contains the complete novel originally published in the Nickel Weekly, entitled THE CAVERN MYSTERY. ...
The Lawrence twins, Steve and Tony, found this summer at Pirate's Point quite different from the usual even dullness. First they had new neighbors – Professor Hillyard and his daughter, Pat. Then motorboats sped into the Cove mysteriously at night, without running lights. And Steve broke his leg, so Tony had to print his brother's weekly newspaper, though he had little interest in it.<P> The annual calm is broken by a burglary, ...
