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Ruth Fenisong
THE BUTLER DIED IN BROOKLYN
Shepard had been a loyal family butler, but when Marianne finds him that evening, he is a very dead butler. Someone had staged his exit…
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GRIM REHEARSAL
Press agent Pierce Kirby is thrilled when his Uncle Doc visits, and takes him that night to a Manhattan play. They all know Pierce at the theater, so…
Mary Fitt
Sweet Poison takes its title from a line in King John: "Sweet, sweet, sweet poison for the age's tooth". It refers not only to the fact that the central character…
James Gunn
DEADLIER THAN THE MALE
Helen is in Reno for her second divorce and staying with Mrs. Krantz and her daughter Rachel at their boarding house. Mrs. Krantz's drinking companion, Laura…
Elizabeth Fenwick
Poor Harriet originally published in 1957. The silent cousin originally published in 1962.
Q. Patrick
It's homicide on the high seas in this "A 1 mystery" by the Edgar Award-winning author Q. Patrick (Kirkus Reviews).
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Curtis J. Evans
"This book examines the FCC's anti-racist religious projects and pronouncements from the 1920s to 1950 and demonstrates that ecumenical Protestants exercised significant cultural capital and legitimacy in the political, social…
Gerald Butler
KISS THE BLOOD OFF MY HANDS
Bill is just off the boat in England and already he's killed someone. The bouncer had it coming, but still, Bill knows he's got…
Curtis Evans
That British mysteries from the Golden Age of detective fiction (customarily defined as the period between the First and Second World Wars) were not only aesthetically but ideologically conservative has…
In honor of the 70th birthday of Professor Douglas G. Greene, mystery genre scholar and publisher, this book offers 24 new essays and two reprinted classics on detective fiction by…
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Analysis of LGBTQ life before the Stonewall Riots of 1969 traditionally has been dominated by the powerful negative image of the closet, the metaphorical space where that which was deemed…
Yunhua Zhang
This book uses simple economic theories to explain how China’s agricultural economic phenomena exists in reality. This is a unique book on agricultural science that fills an important gap in…
Marty Holland
FALLEN ANGEL
Eric Stanton is a drifter and a con artist. After he gets kicked off a bus from L.A., he finds himself in the small coastal town of Walton…
Bernice Carey
Two socially conscious mysteries from the late 40s and early 50s set in the San Francisco area.
Jean Potts
DEATH OF A STRAY CAT
Marcella is a born victim. She brings out the worst in men. But someone has taken it too far and murdered the poor girl. Alex…
Edna Sherry
SUDDEN FEAR
Myra Hudson is the last in the long line of the Hudsons, and her fame, wealth and power are legendary. She has written seven plays in the last…
Clues and Corpses investigates the life and genre writing of Oklahoma Choctaw detective novelist Todd Downing (1902-1974). Included in this volume are nearly 300 annotated mystery book reviews from the…
Todd Downing
The sounding of the last trumpet in the bullring that shimmering hot day in Matamoras, Mexico was meant to signal the kill of the bull by the bullfighter. Instead it…
Hugh Rennert, now retired from the U. S. customs service and cultivating a citrus grove in Cameron County, Texas, again finds himself south of the border, motoring through the mountains…
A blood donor is killed, and Sheriff Peter Bounty must figure out why in order to find the murderer. Does someone have a grudge against the sick man’s family? Is…
The ex-Governor of Texas is traveling with family in preparation for an inadvisable wedding when he is suddenly murdered. His old friend Sheriff Peter Bounty is on hand to try…
Willoughby Sharp
Murder at the New York Stock Exchange! And not just one dead stockbroker but two! Both men, it is soon learned, were mysteriously poisoned, much to the irritation of the…
Alfred Meyers
Who stuck the steel knitting needle through the neck of the frayed canary? If you have ever yearned for the chance to still the notes of a coloratura soprano, your…
Clifford Orr
The Dartmouth Murders: The Dartmouth Hall clock strikes a cold, damp six as student Ken Harris awakens to the ominous sound of muffled rhythmic raps against a dormitory window. Upon…
Anita Boutell
Death Brings a Storke: In not at the birth but not long after the death is Dr. Archibald Archie Storke, when during a pleasant breakfast one morning with his wife…
Tyline Perry
A body is found after a disastrous fire at Haunted Mine, but it was clear case of murder. How could the murderer have escaped the heat and poisonous air?
Amen Dell
Johnny Angel, hard-working mechanic, was eager to aid the war effort, but company management wouldn’t work with the union to streamline efficiency. A strange encounter and a mysterious code thrust…
Kenneth Whipple
Deadly fires break out at a New England summer home, as an eccentric and elderly New York millionaire claims that there is a plot to murder him.
Roger Scarlett
Inspector Norton Kane encounters two more puzzling mysteries. First, a wealthy man has teased his relatives with his wealth for years, and now he’s dead. Then, two aged brothers live…
Inspector Norton Kane of the Boston police has taken time off to recover from a nasty bout of influenza, but is enticed into personally investigating a strange household, where an…
Addison Simmons
A professor races to find the real killer when an academic colleague is found murdered, and suspicion points to the father of the woman he loves …
Samuel Rogers
Two classic mystery thrillers are reprinted here. In ‘You’ll Be Sorry!’ a young woman is threatened with anonymous notes, and ignores them to her peril. In ‘You Leave Me Cold!’…
Robert a Simon
A young man with an aching heart finds solace in detective stories, but before long, becomes caught up in a real-life murder mystery. Can he put what he has learned…
Laverne Rice
A scholarly bachelor from an old-money Hudson Valley family brings home a much younger, revue star bride who turns the household upside down, until a house party ends in murder…
Sally Wood
Murder of a Novelist: New England spinster Ann Thorne’s quiet life with her well-appointed home suffers the intrusion of murder when the body of her obnoxious neighbor, a writer, is…
Edith Howie
On a cold snowy night when the church choir met for practice, young organist Carol Tolliver didn’t show up. That’s when Tess King dropped her music behind the choir pew…
Mary Thorpe does her part for the war effort in the bustling little city of Nashiona (now bursting at the seams with trainees from the army school), mostly aiding her…
Howie Edith
Connie Waring didn’t want to sing with a band; she wanted to be a concert pianist. But a spot on a home-talent radio program wasn’t likely to get her there…
MURDER NEEDS A NAME
The radio show has ended for the day, and the actors and writers are out for dinner, including their sponsor, Abner Ridenour. After the dinner breaks…
Ed MacIntyre was due for a nervous breakdown, induced by the grind of pounding out radio soap opera scripts. So he bade farewell to the show, and joined his collaborator…
Mary Collins
ONLY THE GOOD
Susan Brooks loves her great-aunt Ella, whose kindly nature is constantly put to the test by the rest of the family. But now matriarchal Aunt Ella lies…
THE BEAUTIFUL STRANGER
When Jim McGowan brings his new bride home to his small mill town, no one knows what to make of her. With her dark hair and flawless…
Helen Nielsen
SING ME A MURDER
Ty Leander stages his suicide in the same apartment where young Mary Brownlee was found murdered. It’s not that he harbors any desire for self-destruction. He’s…
NO QUESTIONS ASKED
Steve Lake is the homicide captain, but that doesn't mean Lieutenant Rand has to like it. That job should have been his. Then there is another murder…
Dolores Hitchens
THE ABDUCTOR
It begins with a name whispered to a teacher in the schoolyard… Marion….Marion. Someone is lurking in the bushes, but they run off before Miss Moynton can confront…
Two small town California mysteries from the early 1950s, the first which explores a 20-year-old murder that comes back to haunt the present, the second involving an amateur sleuth who…
Two mysteries featuring Lt. Gridley Nelson and originally published in 1962 and 1952. Dead Weight concerns the murder of a member of an exclusive weight loss salon, and Deadlock asks…
