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  • A Rose in Cement

    Black Book

    by Wallace Collins ...
    Wallace Collins was born in Jamaica, West Indies, and immigrated to London, England as a youth, where he soon married Pauline, shortly after which they moved to Toronto, Canada. He began to write seriously in Toronto before he moved to New York where he has been living now for decades. Mr. Collins is a graduate of Queens College, and has worked most of his life as a Cabinetmaker in the countries ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • The Greatest Murder Mysteries Ever Written

    A Treasury of Victorian Detectives, Locked Rooms, Golden Age Whodunits, and Gothic Crime

    by Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Wallace, Wilkie Collins, Ethel Lina White, Annie Haynes, R. Austin Freeman, H. C. McNeile, G. K. Chesterton, Arthur Morrison, Ernest Bramah, Victor L. Whitechurch, Thomas W. Hanshew, E. W. Hornung, J. S. Fletcher, Rober Barr, Frank Froest, C. N. Williamson, A. M. Williamson, Isabel Ostander, Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur B. Reeve, Marie Belloc Lowndes, Richard Marsh, Émile Gaboriau, Arthur J. Rees, William Le Queux, Carolyn Wells, Frank L. Packard, Fred M. White, Allan Pinkerton, Anna Maynard Barbour, A. E. W. Mason, Louis Tracy, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Cleveland Moffett, Louis Joseph Vance, Jackson Gregory, E. M. Delafield, Anton Chekhov, James Hay, Melville Davisson Post, Anna Katharine Green, Ambrose Bierce, John R. Coryell, Frederic Arnold Kummer, Arthur Cheney Train, S. S. Van Dine ...
    The Greatest Murder Mysteries Ever Written surveys the formative pleasures and formal ingenuity of detective fiction, gathering locked rooms, poisoned clues, country-house crimes, urban conspiracies, and investigations shaped by psychological suspense. Its range extends from Gothic atmosphere and sensational plotting to the brisk procedural, the gentleman-thief adventure, and the modern puzzle ... Read more

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  • Orientation: a Journey

    Trip Through Europe Asia and Africa

    by Wallace B. Collins ...
    Orientation: A Journey is an autobiographical account of a group of African American tourists who traveled on a tour to Europe, Asia and North Africa. The writer inserts fictional situations in the book to enable the reader to view the bareback narrative in relation to, or as a divergence from the autobiographical portions of the book. As a reality, these segments in the book are its core that ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD

  • Shadows and Reflections

    by Wallace B. Collins ...
    Anthony Deazz could not have known that he was the subject of a police car chase--a chase that ended abruptly when his Infiniti motor car stopped mysteriously as if it were in collision with an invisible object. The eerie circumstance of the crash and the frigid temperature the police felt inside the car baffled them. The driver had no pulse, and they assumed that he was dead. Immediately they ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • In a Hallowed Tone

    by Wallace B. Collins ...
    Let verse be free wherever you (be) is the writer's use of (be) as an optional address to champion, and or convey, his free will. It reflects a secular idiom that the writer employs, enabling a grammatical shift that conveys choice, as it is to embrace the good the bad and the ugly to determine as mordant irreligious stance. "The Humbling" as the subtitle suggests, substantiates spirituality in ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD

  • Blood and Wine

    An Anthology

    by Wallace B. Collins ...
    Blood and Wine is complied from a collection of fictional writings, free verse and autobiographical material I wrote and published in several books over the years. I selected segments I thought were essential to the general focus of my book to hone prose and target free verse to signify the creative process within which my book strives. I began the book with a poetic challenge-Intruders, do not ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD

  • Silhouette

    A Play in Two Acts

    by Wallace B. Collins ...
    There is no available information at this time. ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD

  • Ebony Mask / Ebony Gold

    Ebony Mask

    by Wallace B. Collins ...
    Years ago, I met a friend in London I had not seen in many years. He posed a very interesting question to me. He wanted me to give him a statement on Jomo Kenyatta, who was then incarcerated as the leader of the Mau-Mau uprising in Kenya. Though I did not have an answer for my friend, I kept his question in my mind. Then, years later, my wife and I decided to visit Kenya on Safari with friends, ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD

  • Blue and Green

    Poems / Word Images

    by Wallace B. Collins ...
    Poems / Images are a collection of verse, and excerpts from fiction I wrote over the years, with prose narrative honed and targeted to poems to make a connective, and where possible, an explosive imagery. Obviously, the writer believes he has met the goals he sets out for himself in this book, by making an imaginary unity in sound and meaning substantive, confident all along in his credo that he ... Read more

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  • 100 Masterpieces of Mystery

    A Panoramic Anthology of Gothic Terror, Classic Detection, Hard-Boiled Crime, and Psychological Suspense

    by Edgar Allan Poe, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Arthur Conan Doyle, Josephine Tey, Daniel Defoe, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë, Alexandre Dumas, Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, Robert Louis Stevenson, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Jules Verne, Mark Twain, Henry James, Anton Chekhov, Nikolai Gogol, Walter Scott, D. H. Lawrence, Oscar Wilde, H. G. Wells, Edgar Wallace, G. K. Chesterton, Wilkie Collins, R. Austin Freeman, Anna Katharine Green, Mary Roberts Rinehart, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Margery Allingham, Freeman Wills Crofts, Cyril Hare, Shirley Jackson, Ernest Bramah, Sapper, Arthur Morrison, Marie Belloc Lowndes, Dorothy L. Sayers, John Buchan, Robert William Chambers, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Richard Marsh, Annie Haynes, Maurice Leblanc, Gaston Leroux, Émile Gaboriau, John P. Marquand, Patricia Wentworth, Ethel Lina White, Sinclair Lewis, Theodore Dreiser, Bram Stoker, Sheridan Le Fanu, H. P. Lovecraft, William Hope Hodgson, Algernon Blackwood, Washington Irving, Guy de Maupassant, E. C. Bentley, A. A. Milne, Erskine Childers, Earl Derr Biggers ...
    100 Masterpieces of Mystery maps the extraordinary breadth of mystery writing, from Gothic terror, sensation fiction, and locked-room puzzles to espionage, psychological unease, hard-boiled realism, and tales of the uncanny. Its selections place canonical investigations alongside atmospheric narratives of crime, deception, and suspense, revealing how mystery continually borrows from romance, ... Read more

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  • Swell Tide Shimmy

    To Jamaica with Love

    by Wallace Collins ...
    Stanley Dawson is a young Jamaican who volunteers for military service in the Royal Air Force then goes off to Great Britain to fight in World War II. After his arrival in England he becomes a casualty, not from action in combat, but from injuries he sustains during a training exercise. His experience in his weeks of hospitalization, left him determined to overcome the debilitating effects of ... Read more

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  • In a Quiet Voice

    by Wallace Collins ...
    In a Quiet Voice is a collection of essays, free verse and stories the writer presents retrospectively as writings he recorded over time. His essays are historical with short stories buttressed and heightened by free verse. The writer dedicates this Word Imagery to the reader as narrative that flows through the book like red wine into the readers ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD