Taken in by her two great-aunts, Candida Sayle fears she may become the next victim of the Benevent Treasure, which is said to bring death to anyone who touches it, while Miss Silver investigates the death of a former Benevent...
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This novel opens with the death of playboy stockbroker, Alvin Benson, who is found in his brownstone mansion with a bullet through his head. First on the scene is Philo Vance, amateur detective, who is at once intrigued by the absence of Alvin's...
A sporting preparation to the intelligent mystery fan: don't open this door when you want to play fair with the most original pair of detectives of years — and will keep the secret that is going to make detective-story history — the secret of...
Автор: Craigie Hamilton , Harcourt Clinton
Серия: The Black Mask Magazine
Язык: английский
Год: 1920
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The Black Mask (Vol. 2, No. 2 — November...
Автор: Beyers Meredith , Deffenbaugh Walter
Серия: The Black Mask Magazine
Язык: английский
Год: 1921
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The Black Mask (Vol. 4, No. 3 — December...
The bunk’s mattress was soaked wit blood.
The old-fashioned razor was folded shut.
But it had been recently used. It was smeared with blood.
A voice broke the terrible stillness in the stateroom: “The Blind Barber Has Been Here...
Ross Craddock was just the type to be murdered. The new landlord of Craddock house, he begins by giving eviction notice to his aunt Lucy. He threatens the doorman with dismissal. He makes a violent and unwelcome pass to his cousin Mavis. He is...
Erle Stanley Gardner, creator of Perry Mason and the world’s bestselling mystery writer, wrote for the leading magazines such as Argosy and Black Mask alongside Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler.
Following the success of Dead Mens Letters...
A Good Foundation ... For Murder
Pix Miller, Faith Fairchild's next-door neighbor, expects to find more than a hole in the ground when she goes to check on the progress of the summer cottage the Fairchilds are having built on Maine's Sanpere...
"Only the best people go to Hubbard House to die". So Faith Sibley Fairchild, gourmet caterer-turned-amateur sleuth, is told as she begins to investigate some mysterious doings at a retirement community near the village of Aleford, Massachusetts,...