In a sensational breach of promise suit, two wealthy social climbers are suing on behalf of their beautiful daughter, Zillah. The defendant is Zillah's alleged fiancé, brilliant young architect Killian Melville, who adamantly declares that...
The Twenty Third Chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew
In 1360 a deputation from Cambridge ventures to the Suffolk town of Clare in the hope that the wealthy Elizabeth de Burgh has left a legacy to Michaelhouse. Yet when they arrive they discover...
Steeplechase jockeys, like all other professional sportsmen, have to find a second career for themselves as the years go by. Jonah Dereham, retiring from the saddle at thirty-two, chose to become a bloodstock agent and spent his life travelling...
THE FOUR SIGNETS was originally published in the January 1, 1935 issue of The Shadow Magazine.
The Four Signets hold some hidden message which spreads the path of crime and death in their wake. Millions at stake — to be distributed by four...
THE DEATH GIVER was originally published in the May 15, 1933 issue of The Shadow Magazine.
What was the meaning of the sudden, mysterious deaths that were striking ordinary citizens in New York's public places? No doubt they were the first...
The second book in the Sean Denton series. A young woman is trying to rebuild her life after prison, but someone is out there who won't let her forget what she's done. Racial tension is bubbling up on the Chasebridge Estate and Sean is drawn back...