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Book Synopsis Liquid Death and Other Stories by : John Russell Fearn
Download or read book Liquid Death and Other Stories written by John Russell Fearn and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: JOHN RUSSELL FEARN began his writing career as a pioneer in the science fiction field, appearing in all of the American pulp science fiction magazines in the early 1930s. However, many of his fans don't know that Fearn was also a prolific and successful writer in other genres, especially crime and detective fiction. This volume contains some of his best stories from the famous pulp magazine, Thrilling Mystery Stories, plus several others, including two which are previously unpublished.
Book Synopsis The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories: 5 by : Ed Gorman
Download or read book The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories: 5 written by Ed Gorman and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-10 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An annual collection of more than thirty mystery stories from the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Germany includes pieces by such names as Ruth Rendell, Ed McBain, Barbara Hambly, Ian Rankin, and Joyce Carol Oates.
Book Synopsis Death in Silhouette by : John Russell Fearn
Download or read book Death in Silhouette written by John Russell Fearn and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2016-05-20 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maria Black, the woman's school headmistress who doubles as a detective, is invited to attend the engagement celebrations of an ex-pupil of her college. There she finds herself involved in the mysterious suicide of the prospective bridegroom, Keith Robinson. All the circumstances--death by hanging in a locked cellar--support the idea that Keith took his own life. The coroner, too, is satisfied that such was the case--but certain peculiar factors of the death lead "Black Maria" to think otherwise. Aided by her American Bowery companion, "Pulp" Martin, Maria sets out to prove how Keith really died--and in doing so uncovers an ingenious plan of cold-blooded murder. But who is the killer--and why was Keith murdered? This fifth--and final--novel in the Black Maria series is a classic "locked-room" crime novel, one that will leave the reader guessing right up to the last page!
Book Synopsis Pattern of Murder by : John Russell Fearn
Download or read book Pattern of Murder written by John Russell Fearn and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For cinema projectionist Sid Elbridge, it seems that things can't get much worse. First, circumstantial evidence has made him the prime suspect in the police investigation of a robbery at the cinema where he works. Secondly, his fiancée Vera has been horribly killed in the same theatre, victim of a falling light fixture. Then he discovers strange, intricate patterns traced in the dust on the wooden frame of a still-case. There's something very wrong about this "accident," he now realizes, and begins investigating what actually happened. Slowly he realizes that a ruthless murderer is lurking in the shadows, and only Sid can uncover the PATTERN OF MURDER! Another great mystery story by a British master of intricate plot twists.
Book Synopsis The Tattoo Murders by : John Russell Fearn
Download or read book The Tattoo Murders written by John Russell Fearn and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2001-11-01 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary, Ian, Lil are three rather ordinary names. But when these names are each found tattooed on the backs of three murder victims, they are steppingstones on a murder trail that baffles Scotland Yard investigators. A story that grips from first page to last, Murder's A Must is one of John Russell Fearn's finest detective mysteries
Book Synopsis Charlie Chan in the Pawns of Death by : Bill Pronzini
Download or read book Charlie Chan in the Pawns of Death written by Bill Pronzini and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Checkmate!" That was the last word uttered to Charlie Chan and Prefect of Police Claude DeBevre by a dying reporter. It is the second murder in 24 hours at the Transcontinental Chess Tournament, and Chan has been summoned from a peaceful vacation to help solve the crime before international scandal ruins the tournament's good name.
Book Synopsis Alibi and Dr. Morelle by : Ernest Dudley
Download or read book Alibi and Dr. Morelle written by Ernest Dudley and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 1959-01-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the time that Ted Patrick is planning to pull off his biggest house-breaking job, Dr. Morelle, aided as ever by Miss Frayle, sets up an off-beat criminological experiment, which is destined to have unexpected results. The success of Ted Patrick's coup, achieved with the inside help of a pretty blonde, Myra Campbell, is marred by the killing of a village policeman. Patrick gets away with the loot but runs into trouble when his cleverly planned alibi crumbles dramatically. In a last desperate effort to keep himself in the clear, he deliberately becomes involved in Dr. Morelle's strange scheme. At first it seems that Ted Patrick's luck will hold, but he reckons without Dr. Morelle . . . and without Myra Campbell herself!
Book Synopsis Voice of the Conqueror by : John Russell Fearn
Download or read book Voice of the Conqueror written by John Russell Fearn and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2003-04-01 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: VOICE OF THE CONQUEROR Forsythe reeled back into the missile's instrument room, his skull torn with blinding pain. Sight and hearing had been destroyed in those few seconds. He was only a shell of a man, life deserting him in the half minute that ensued. He did not even detect the further frightful explosions that burst around him, even though his dying body registered their shock. Such were the radiations they generated they pierced right through the insulation of his spacesuit, but they did not affect the missile in which he lay even though it rocked under the soundless impacts. Forsythe died not knowing what had destroyed him... FIRST WORLD BOOK PUBLICATION OF JOHN RUSSELL FEARN'S MOST UNUSUAL SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL!
Book Synopsis Robbery Without Violence by : John Russell Fearn
Download or read book Robbery Without Violence written by John Russell Fearn and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2012-02-21 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "Robbery Without Violence," gold worth fifty million pounds vanishes overnight from an impregnable bank vault, Chief Inspector Hargraves of Scotland Yard finds himself completely baffled. And when the owner of the bank then dies under mysterious circumstances, Hargraves is again spurred to seek outside help from scientist Sawley Garson, a specialist in solving "impossible" crimes. But can even he explain the inexplicable? Also included in this collection is "Death at the Observatory." Two baffling science fiction crime stories by a master of the classic mystery tale.
Book Synopsis Shattering Glass by : John Russell Fearn
Download or read book Shattering Glass written by John Russell Fearn and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2011-11-03 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The girl had been lying dead all night. There'd been a terrible struggle, but in the end, the woman had lost her life to the jagged top of a cologne bottle--her jugular vein severed. Suspicious immediately falls on Richard Lane, who'd planned to meet the deceased at seven o'clock, just before she died. But is Richard really the killer? Only criminal psychologist Dr. Adam Castle can unravel the perplexing mystery. An edge-of-the seat thriller torn from the pages of the 1940s magazines. First of the Dr. Castle series.
Download or read book One Way Out written by John Russell Fearn and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2012-02-09 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a train trip to Scotland with his chief clerk Martin Lee, London financier Morgan Dale is suddenly confronted by his embittered ex-Secretary, whom he's recently sacked. Janice Elton had once been obsessed with him, but the happily married Dale had spurned her romantic advances. Now, Janice wants her revenge. Returning to their carriage, Lee finds Dale alone with the dead body of Janice, whom Dale claims has committed suicide by taking strychnine. With the situation incriminating Dale, Lee advises him to remove any identification and throw the girl's body from the train. But when the police eventually identify her and come to believe she's been murdered, Lee begins to blackmail Dale. And then there's only One Way Out....
Book Synopsis Slaves of Ijax by : John Russell Fearn
Download or read book Slaves of Ijax written by John Russell Fearn and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2012-01-26 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scientist’s vengeance propels Peter Curzon seven hundred years into the future, where he finds himself in a very mysterious world. Science has banished the need to work in order to earn money, and people only pursue activities as a vocation and by choice. But everyone is also engaged on a Great Task--constructing gigantic towers, with no discernible purpose, following the orders given to them in the temples of Ijax, a mysterious Buddha-like entity worshipped as a god. Peter alone seems immune to the influence of Ijax, and unless he can penetrate to the root of the mystery, mankind appears to be doomed. Another grand sci-fi adventure from the golden age.
Book Synopsis The Murdered Schoolgirl: A Classic Crime Novel by : John Russell Fearn
Download or read book The Murdered Schoolgirl: A Classic Crime Novel written by John Russell Fearn and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maria Black, Head of Roseway College for Young Ladies during World War II, and a textbook solver of crimes, finds herself faced with a problem after her own heart when the strange, haughty Frances Hasleigh, daughter of a somewhat mysterious British Major, enrolls in her school. Within a few days the girl is found hanged in a nearby wood, in circumstances that seem devoid of clues and without motive. Scotland Yard is called in to solve the horrifying crime, but Black Maria has her own unique system of finding a culprit. By degrees she follows a trail that leads her through a maze of intrigue. And then a second girl is found hanging in a school room...! The second novel in the classic Black Maria series!
Book Synopsis The Man Who Was Not by : John Russell Fearn
Download or read book The Man Who Was Not written by John Russell Fearn and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2011-11-03 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gerald Dawson was the first to die—in an apparent road accident. But when other members of his family receive mysterious telephone calls informing them of their own imminent demise, and the predictions come true, Scotland Yard soon realizes that a serial killer is at work. Baffled, the police call in Dr. Sawley Garson, a specialist in scientific puzzles. But can even he save the few remaining Dawsons from the cunning killer—a man who appears not to exist? Another classic "impossible crime" novel from a master storyteller.
Book Synopsis Reflected Glory by : John Russell Fearn
Download or read book Reflected Glory written by John Russell Fearn and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2012-05-04 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When rising young artist Clive Hexley, R.A., vanishes, his friends suspect foul play. Chief-Inspector Calthorp of Scotland Yard is called upon to look into the disappearance, and his investigations lead him to question Hexley’s ex-fiancée, Elsa Farraday. Farraday writes horror-tinged mysteries under a pseudonym, and lives by herself in an old house in the English countryside. She eventually confesses that she murdered the artist and threw his body into a swamp. But the girl’s odd, even peculiar mannerisms puzzle Calthorp, and he hesitates to make an arrest when no trace of Hexley's body can be found--or even any proof of his death. Ultimately, he calls in Dr. Adam Castle, the redoubtable psychiatrist and investigator, to help solve the case. Is Elsa a cold-blooded murderer mining her own crimes for her lurid novels? Or is she just an unfortunate "lost soul" who was in the wrong place at the wrong time? An absolutely first-rate psychological thriller!
Book Synopsis Chamber of Centuries by : John Russell Fearn
Download or read book Chamber of Centuries written by John Russell Fearn and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2014-04-07 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After their whirlwind marriage and honeymoon, Jane and Dick went to their new home in rural England...a gloomy place rumored to be haunted. A creepy house, strange neighbors, and newlyweds -- quite a mix! A classic tale by John Russell Fearn, author of the Black Maria series!
Book Synopsis Within That Room! by : John Russell Fearn
Download or read book Within That Room! written by John Russell Fearn and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2012-05-04 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dick opened the door again swiftly, Vera clinging to him--and they were so astounded at what they saw that he forgot for the moment to slam the door shut again. For the phantom was there--clearly visible in the sunlight, which now blazed across the upper half of the great window. A strange, incredible caricature of a being hung in the dusty air, a haze of blurry light surrounding it from the back. There was the pointed tail, the simian ears, the long needle-chinned face, bent arms flexed as though to pounce forward. He seemed to be grinning horribly. Yet he was in mid-air and through him the ancient stone wall could be distinctly seen. This was the ghost--the horror--that everyone knows haunts Sunny Acres Castle, the house that Vera Grantham has just inherited from her late uncle. Together with her boyfriend, Dick Wilmott, she must uncover the secret behind the mansion--a secret worth killing for! A great mystery in the classic British tradition.
