This is not the character of the same name from the comic books. This is a horror and suspense tale of a man who becomes a bat --- or is it the other way around?
Monday, December 28, 2020
Basil by Wilkie Collins
In Basil's secret and unconsummated marriage to the linen-draper's sexually precocious daughter, and the shocking betrayal, insanity, and death that follow, Wilkie Collins reveals the bustling, commercial London of the 19th century wreaking its vengeance on a still powerful aristocratic world. This is a mystery and a novel of sexual suspense and experimentation, early for its time.
Ambrose Lavendale, Diplomat by E. Phillips Oppenheim
Mr
Ambrose Lavendale. a young English-American diplomat, leaves the
Embassy service to work as a secret agent in London during World War
One. He meets Mlle. Suzanne de Frayne, who is similarly employed by the
French, while he is shadowing a scientist who has developed a formula
for a lethal gas explosive. In a series of connected stories, the pair
uncover German spies, foil plots to divert munitions from the Allies,
steal secret weapons, and fall in love.
Tuesday, December 22, 2020
Alley Girl by Jonathan Craig
Tuesday, December 15, 2020
A Son of Perdition by Fergus Hume
Monday, November 30, 2020
A Rogue by Compulsion by Victor Bridges
Sunday, November 29, 2020
A Creature of the Night by Fergus Hume
Fergus Hume's Gothic mystery
begins one evening in late-nineteenth-century Verona, when a young
Englishman loses his way and finds himself lost in an eerie graveyard.
Seeing a mysterious woman emerge from one of the tombs, he follows her
to a deserted mansion, where he witnesses a murder worthy of the
Borgias. How can such a crime take place undetected in the prosaic
nineteenth century? And is the woman a vampire? a ghoul? or an
altogether more earthly villain...?
A fin-de-siecle crime thriller from the author of The Mystery of a
Hansom Cab, this is a classic Victorian mystery dripping with period
atmosphere and and Italian romance.
A Butterfly on the Wheel by C. Ranger Gull
A Bullet for Cinderella by John D. MacDonald
Her veneer was big city … but one look and you knew that Toni Rassell’s instincts were straight out of the river shack she came from. I watched her as she toyed with the man, laughing, her tumbled hair like raw blue-black silk, her brown shoulders bare. Eyes deep-set, a girl with a gypsy look. So this was the girl I had risked my life to find. This was the girl who was going to lead me to a buried fortune in stolen loot.
A Broken Bond by Nicholas Carter
A Battle for the Right; Or, A Clash of Wits by Nicholas Carter
The blurb says:
Nick Carter stands for an interesting detective story. The fact that the books in this line are so uniformly good is entirely due to the work of a specialist. The man who wrote these stories produced no other type of fiction. His mind was concentrated upon the creation of new plots and situations in which his hero emerged triumphantly from all sorts of trouble, and landed the criminal just where he should be—behind the bars.
The author of these stories knew more about writing detective stories than any other single person.
7 to 12 by Anna Katharine Green
7 to 12 by Anna Katharine Green is a detective novel presented as one of her earlier tales. It is a quick, fast-paced mystery sure to have the reader turning pages.
This EPUB is readable on all devices and on every web browser on every computer and cell phone. Kindle, Nook, Ipod, Ipad, Android, Windows, and Mac all support this format. This EPUB has no encryption, so one can safely and easily move it from one device to another, or share it with others.
Friday, November 27, 2020
42 Days for Murder by Roger Torrey
Lurid, sexy, gritty tale of police, detectives, and sex.
This EPUB is readable on all devices and on every web browser on every computer and cell phone. Kindle, Nook, Ipod, Ipad, Android, Windows, and Mac all support this format. The EPUB has no encryption, so one can safely and easily move it from one device to another, or share it with others.
Tuesday, November 24, 2020
A Son of Perdition by Fergus Hume
Monday, November 23, 2020
The Destroying Angel by Louis Joseph Vance
The Chase of the Golden Plate by Jacques Futrelle
Tuesday, November 17, 2020
Anna the Adventuress by E. Phillips Oppenheim
Annabel Pellissier, for reasons of her own, allows Sir John Ferringhall to believe that she is her sister Anna. Anna lets the deception continue and has to bear the burden of her sister’s reputation which, in Paris at any rate, is that of being a coquette. Endless complications ensue when both sisters return to London.This is one of the late E. Phillips Oppenheim’s most intriguing stories.
Sunday, November 15, 2020
The Woman Chaser by Charles Willeford
Saturday, November 14, 2020
Ambrose Lavendale, Diplomat by E. Phillips Oppenheim
Mr Ambrose Lavendale. a young English-American diplomat, leaves the Embassy service to work as a secret agent in London during World War One. He meets Mlle. Suzanne de Frayne, who is similarly employed by the French, while he is shadowing a scientist who has developed a formula for a lethal gas explosive. In a series of connected stories, the pair uncover German spies, foil plots to divert munitions from the Allies, steal secret weapons, and fall in love.
Friday, November 13, 2020
Alley Girl by Jonathan Craig
Saturday, November 7, 2020
Bat Man by Lew Merrill
Friday, November 6, 2020
Adventures in Bonding #1: Porn Queen by William P. Lazarus
Bold Venture Press
Bond? James Bond? He couldn''t be James Bond, and probably wasn''t. Unfortunately for Police Sgt. McConnell, the mystery man believes he is the legendary secret agent, and he can''t be dismissed with a shaken-not-stirred vodka martini and a pat on the head. He has information regarding a murder, and he won''t reveal anything unless she plays along. But things get serious when "Bond" starts taking chances with their lives - and the culprits are playing for keeps.
Sunday, November 1, 2020
An Eye for an Eye by Clarence Darrow
The story of Jim Jackson, who struggles with poverty and harsh circumstances, before finally murdering his wife in a fit of rage. Faced with the gallows, Jackson confesses: "If ther'd been forty scaffolds right before my eyes, I'd have brought down the poker just the same." This is the only fiction novel written by Clarence Darrow.
Saturday, October 31, 2020
Ambrotx and Limping Dick Mystery and Detective by Oliver Fleming
Oliver Fleming was a pseudonym used by the British authors Ronald MacDonald (1860-1933) and his son Philip MacDonald (1900-1980). Works published under this name include Ambrotox and Limping Dick (1920) and The Spandau Quid (1923). Philip MacDonald also wrote as Anthony Lawless, Martin Porlock, W. J. Stuart and Warren Stuart. His detective novels, particularly those featuring his series detective Anthony Gethryn, are primarily whodunnits with the occasional locked room mystery. His novel X. V. Rex (1933), aka The Mystery of the Dead Police, is an early example of what has become known as a serial killer novel. In later years Philip MacDonald wrote television scripts for Alfred Hitchcock Presents (Malice Domestic, 1957) and Perry Mason (The Case of the Terrified Typist, 1958).
Mr Ambrose Lavendale. a young English-American diplomat, leaves the Embassy service to work as a secret agent in London during World War One. He meets Mlle. Suzanne de Frayne, who is similarly employed by the French, while he is shadowing a scientist who has developed a formula for a lethal gas explosive. In a series of connected stories, the pair uncover German spies, foil plots to divert munitions from the Allies, steal secret weapons, and fall in love.
Friday, October 23, 2020
The Grand Babylon Hotel by Arnold Bennett
The Grand Babylon Hotel is a novel by Arnold Bennett, published in January 1902, about the mysterious disappearance of a German prince. It originally appeared as a serial in the Golden Penny. The titular Grand Babylon was modelled on the Savoy Hotel which Bennett had much later also used as a model for his 1930 novel Imperial Palace.
In Bennett's journal entry on 18 January 1901, he also notes that said his serial was being advertised was the "best thing of this sort" they'd seen since The Mystery of a Hansom Cab by Fergus Hume.
Wednesday, September 23, 2020
Nightmare Town by Dashiell Hammett
"Nightmare Town" is a novella written by Dashiell Hammett short stories published in paperback with illustrations. It appeared again in 1999, the eponymous story of a collection of twenty short stories edited by Kirby McCauley, Martin H Greenberg and Ed Gorman.
Samuel Dashiell Hammett May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961) was an American author of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories. He was also a screenwriter and political activist. Among the enduring characters he created are Sam Spade (The Maltese Falcon), Nick and Nora Charles (The Thin Man), and the Continental Op (Red Harvest and The Dain Curse).
Hammett "is now widely regarded as one of the finest mystery writers of all time".[3] In his obituary in The New York Times, he was described as "the dean of the... 'hard-boiled' school of detective fiction." Time magazine included Hammett's 1929 novel Red Harvest on its list of the 100 best English-language novels published between 1923 and 2005. His novels and stories also had a significant influence on films, including the genres of private-eye/detective fiction, mystery thrillers, and film-noir.
Tuesday, September 22, 2020
The Cryptogram by James De Mille
Wednesday, September 16, 2020
Dark Mirror by Louis Joseph Vance
A psychic tale of dual personality and the underworld, told in Mr. Vance's typical way, which means that each chapter unfolds more suspense, and that excitement vies with love interest for the rule of the reader's imagination.
Louis Joseph Vance was born September 19, 1879, in Washington, D. C., the only child of Wilson J. Vance, a Medal of Honor recipient, and Lillian Beall Vance. He was educated at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. Vance was married to Anne Elizabeth Hodges on February 19, 1898. Their son, Wilson Beall Vance, was born in 1900.[1]
He wrote short stories and verse after 1901, then composed many popular novels. His character Michael Lanyard, known as The Lone Wolf, was featured in eight books and 24 films between 1914 and 1949 and also appeared in radio and television series.
Vance moved to Los Angeles to work with Universal Pictures on films based on his work, including The Trey o' Hearts (1914) and a serial and film series (1914–1916) based on his Terence O'Rourke stories. In 1915, he founded Fiction Pictures, Inc., a motion picture production company whose films were distributed by Paramount Pictures. Its first release was The Spanish Jade (1915), with a screenplay by Vance based on his stage adaptation of a novel by Maurice Hewlett. Vance was president and general manager of the company; other principals were Wilfred Lucas (director-general), Gilbert Warrenton (cinematographer) and Bess Meredyth (scenario editor). Fiction Pictures operated in Glendale until a new studio in Hollywood was completed in April 1915. The studio was sold to Famous Players in June, when Fiction Pictures went out of business.
Vance died alone in his New York City apartment on December 16, 1933, in a fire that resulted from his falling asleep with a lighted cigarette His death was ruled accidental. A simple funeral took place December 20, 1933, at St. George's Protestant Episcopal Church in Brooklyn, with honorary pallbearers including Marc Connelly, Will Irwin and Samuel Merwin Vance's widow received an estate of less than $10,000.
Sunday, August 23, 2020
Murder Rides High A Mystery Ebook by Leonard Finley Hilts
Tight little short story of murder on a US Navy flight base. A quick read with an aerial dog-fight thrown in for good measure
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