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Lynn Trevor, president of Cedarcliff's bank, has disappeared, and his father hires Tam O'Brien (professionally known as Tam o' Shanter) to investigate. She goes undercover as a nurse, and soon finds...

Sandra Cassells, a rich widow, has set up a home for ex-convicts, but her good intentions create a boiling cauldron of trouble, as passion, jealousy, and manipulation lead to murder. Amos Lee Mappin...

Originally published in 1960 in "The World Around Us" series, The Illustrated Story of Magic delves into the history of stage magic and early performers, as well as the folkloric roots of the magical...

In The Inferno of Checkers, W. R. Fraser discusses how to play in "Two-Move," "Three-Move" and "Go As You Please" checkers. The former involve pre-arranged (but randomly assigned) moves for the first...

A beautiful society woman is found dead, covered only in gauze, her body staged and lit up in a macabre tableau, in a beachfront summer house as a country club dance is in progress. Two young men...

Sitting Bull was a fascinating, but controversial figure in the political history of relationships between the First Nations and the U.S. Government. Author Usher L. Burdick illuminates the human...

Sam Ward was yearning for adventure when a Cherokee man arrived from a distant village with a tale of a monstrous hairy creature threatening his land. The formerly peaceful beast went rogue upon the...

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 was the bullfighter, Carlos...

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 and solve the case. The...

The Legal Exploits of Randolph Mason collects all three short story anthologies of the amoral lawyer who extricates his clients from legal difficulties. Randolph Mason views Fate and Destiny with...

The Loot of Cities is made up of six adventures of a bored millionaire who plays the rogue, traveling Europe as he tweaks scoundrels, probes mysteries, and finds romance. Arnold Bennett was a popular...

Anthropologist and folklorist Katharine Luomala's (1907-1992) "The Menehune of Polynesia ..." was published as a bulletin of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum in 1951. This paper examined the stories and...

The Commemoration Night ball at Beaufort College, Oxford, is disturbed first by a strange prank with a professor's mummy, then by a tragic fire that kills the professor-or did it? If he died in the...

Ren? Doria disappears just as he is to marry into wealthy society. Amos Lee Mappin is engaged by the hysterical bride-to-be, and soon stumbles into a murder case with puzzling ties to the past. There...

Duddington Pell Chalmers is a young man of taste, class, and girth. As trustee for a local art museum, he is called in by police when the troublesome curator is murdered and soon finds himself at...

When a famous art-loving millionaire disappeared from a Bohemian party in the artist quarters of Montparnasse, a number of colorful Parisians began to devote themselves to suspicious actions of one...

Wang Foo, "Prince of Chinese Detectives," is an educated, well-traveled Confucian scholar who has dedicated himself to unraveling mysteries on behalf of the Chinese people and their Western allies...

Fin Corveth's friend Nick is robbed, and an emerald locket is stolen. Murder soon follows, and the only clue to motive is a folded piece of blank paper. Dark clouds are gathering and threaten to...

Sheik Ahmed bin Said arrives in the United States with his British bride-to-be and her overbearing mother, amid political machinations between France and Britain as they jostle for control of his...

"The revolver as a factor in the development of America has never received serious consideration, either from the historian or the literary man. The former has neglected it entirely, while the latter...

A young man dies with a peculiar scent on his lips, drawing Inspector Fisk into an investigation into a strange series of murders with no apparent motive and the same lingering perfume. When Fisk's...

Robert Cornua is a philosopher of human nature, working on his magnum opus, when his goddaughter Julia arrives breathlessly with the news that her genial philanthropist uncle, Cornua's best friend,...

Thornley Colton, Problemist, is a "blind detective" from the golden age of mystery fiction. Relying on his keen senses and intelligence, he only takes the most puzzling cases, strictly for the...

The inimitable Quinny Hite is on the case-tough, cocky Quinny who invariably ends up in deeper waters of detection than he bargained for. Chinese Red: A wealthy playboy disappears from a dinner party...

The inimitable Quinny Hite is on the case-tough, cocky Quinny who invariably ends up in deeper waters of detection than he bargained for. The Fourth Star: Quinny investigates the mysterious death of...

Theodore Stern's ethnological monograph details the various rubber-ball games from South America, Central America, Mexico, and the southwestern United States, with discussion of equipment, game play,...

A facsimile reprint of E. O. Randall's classic investigation of the mysterious Great Serpent Mound, of southern Ohio.Author: E. O. RandallPublisher: Coachwhip PublicationsPublication Date: Feb 04,...

The Seven Black ChessmenAuthor: John HuntingdonPublisher: Coachwhip PublicationsPublication Date: Jan 13, 2025Number of Pages: 232 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1616465972ISBN-13:...

The Sleeping Cat is a thrilling story in Isabel Ostrander's best manner. Olive Mercer invites her old schoolmate, the beautiful Gloria Warrender, to her home. A murder in the garden in open daylight,...

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...