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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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  • 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

    $5.39 CAD

  • In Winter's Eye

    Reflections in Winter

    by Wallace Collins ...
    My endeavor here is to validate and document In Winters Eye what causes me to reflect, and try to recapture, in retrospect, my experiences--events propelled then by my pervasive apprehension of frost. This symbolic cold weather chills me to the bone In Winters Eye, which has now resurfaced in this brooding, but stark and detail reality. Yet, though the metaphorical winter weather doesnt bother me ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • 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

  • In a Mellow Tone

    by Wallace Collins ...
    In a Mellow Tone is a book about my recollections of times past and my reflections of such. The book highlights some short fiction that I included and of which emerge as scintillating. Some of the entries in the book is based on my entries in a journal I kept over the years. I was also cognizant in my observation of events going on around me. ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD

  • 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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  • Jamaican Migrant

    by Wallace Collins ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Immigration and Migration
    Jamaican Migrant (1965) is the honest and moving recollection of a Jamaican cabinet-maker who emigrated to a new life in Britain. This is the book of a man who has been through the whole story in his own life – childhood in a large and humble Jamaican family, apprenticeship there, the journey to Britain as a stowaway, years in London as a Jamaican immigrant. The author takes us from Jamaica’s ... Read more

    $63.20 CAD

  • Love Is a Drum

    Fiction Notes

    by Wallace Collins ...
    THE EXIT INTERVIEW is a story about the competitiveness between two business, oriented buddies whose friendship became marred by jealousy and envy, ended in tragic circumstances, or at best, melodramatically.In LOVE IS A DRUM, Pops is a senior citizen who shares the spotlight with Malcolm, a young romantic who projects himself years ahead of his time to emphasize with the old man.THE EMPTY STAGE ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD

  • British Mysteries Boxed Set: 560+ Thriller Classics, Detective Stories & True Crime Stories

    Complete Sherlock Holmes, Father Brown Mysteries, Four Just Men, Dr. Thorndyke Stories…

    by Edgar Wallace, Arthur Conan Doyle, 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 ...
    The 'British Mysteries Boxed Set: 560+ Thriller Classics, Detective Stories & True Crime Stories' is a monumental collection that weaves together the intricately plotted worlds of mystery and suspense from the golden age of British literature. This anthology spans a wide array of literary styles—from tightly knitted detective stories to sprawling true crime narratives, offering readers an ... 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

  • 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

    $5.39 CAD