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  • Obelists Fly High

    by C. Daly King ...
    Series series American Mystery Classics
    A surgeon is murdered in mid-air with only his fellow airplane passengers as possible suspects in this classic closed circle mystery set in the age of early aviation.1935: A surgeon, the appropriately named Dr. Cutter, is preparing to fly cross-country in a two-propeller plane to perform a life-and-death surgery on his brother, the Secretary of State. Just before boarding, he receives an anonymous ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Obelists En Route

    by C. Daly King ...
    Series series American Mystery Classics
    The discovery of a corpse turns a cross-country train journey into a closed-circle hunt for a killer.The magnificent Transcontinental Express, showcasing the cutting edge of mid-1930s luxury train travel, is making its first trip from New York to San Francisco. For its record-breaking maiden voyage—coast to coast in three days with no passenger stops—the express carries only invited guests, among ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Obelists at Sea

    by C. Daly King, Martin Edwards ...
    Series series American Mystery Classics
    C. Daly King's debut mystery is a tale of murder, travel, and psychiatry set aboard a luxury transatlantic liner.The smoking room on a transatlantic cruise ship is bound to be a hotbed of activity — but it’s less common for it to be the site of a murder. Yet, when the lights flicker aboard the luxury Meganaut, making its way from New York to Paris, this is precisely what happens; in the darkness, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Psychology Of Consciousness

    by C Daly King ...
    This is Volume XVI of thirty-eight in the General Psychology series. First published in 1932 this study explores the fact that consciousness is not merely an accidental by-product of human life but rather constitutes the chief goal of living. ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Obelists Fly High

    by C. Daly King ...
    Series series Dover Mystery Classics
    "A very thrilling story … [with] a real surprise midway in the book, and a double-barreled shock at the end … the reader's interest is never allowed to flag." ― The New York Times.Captain Michael Lord of the New York City Police is the target of desperate shots fired on board a twin-engine plane, where a premeditated murder has already taken place. Will the dashing detective survive the assault? ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Miraculous Mysteries

    Locked-Room Murders and Impossible Crimes

    Edited by Martin Edwards ...
    Series series British Library Crime Classics
    Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder, featuring stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, G. K. Chesterton, Dorothy L. Sayers, and more."Readers who appreciate careful plot development, slightly unusual detectives, and logical denouements will relish this volume." — Library JournalImpossible crime stories have been relished by puzzle-lovers ever since the invention of detective fiction. ... Read more

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  • The Craig Kennedy Scientific Detective MEGAPACK ®

    25 Classic Tales of Detection

    by Arthur B. Reeve, R. Austin Freeman, John Russell Fearn, Cleveland Moffett, Samuel Hopkins Adams, Brander Matthews, Stacy Aumonier, C.J. Cutcliffe Hyne, L. T. Meade, Robert Eustace, Clifford Halifax ...
    The Craig Kennedy Scientific Detective Megapack collects 25 novels and stories. 14 are Craig Kennedy tales, plus there is 1 additional story from the same author and 10 by contemporaries of Arthur B. Reeve. They all share the same spirit of detection.Included are:INTRODUCTION: ABOUT ARTHUR B. REEVE AND HIS CRAIG KENNEDY STORIESTHE SILENT BULLET, by Arthur B. ReeveTHE WAR TERROR, by Arthur B. ... Read more

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  • The Secret of Chimneys

    by Agatha Christie ...
    The Secret of Chimneys is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by The Bodley Head in June 1925. and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. It introduces the characters of Superintendent Battle and Lady Eileen "Bundle" Brent. At the request of George Lomax, Lord Caterham reluctantly agrees to host a weekend party at his home, ... Read more

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  • The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories

    by Malcolm Bradbury ...
    This anthology is in many was a ‘best of the best’, containing gems from thirty-four of Britain's outstanding contemporary writers. It is a book to dip into, to read from cover to cover, to lend to friends and read again. It includes stories of love and crime, stories touched with comedy and the supernatural, stories set in London, Los Angeles, Bucharest and Tokyo. Above all, as you will discover, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Plymouth Express Affair

    by Agatha Christie ...
    "The Plymouth Express Affair" is indeed a short story written by Agatha Christie, featuring her famous detective Hercule Poirot. It was first published in the collection "Murder in the Calais Coach" in the United States and later in the UK under the title "Murder on the Orient Express."In "The Plymouth Express Affair," Poirot investigates the murder of a wealthy American heiress named Ruth ... Read more

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  • The Case of the Baker Street Irregulars

    by Anthony Boucher ...
    A Sherlock Holmes script sparks controversy and murder in Hollywood in a "most engrossing mystery" from the author of Nine Times Nine ( The New Yorker).Anthony Boucher was a literary renaissance man: an Edgar Award–winning mystery reviewer, an esteemed editor of the Hugo Award–winning Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, a prolific scriptwriter of radio mystery programs, and an accomplished ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Poisoned Pen

    by Arthur Benjamin Reeve ...
    Kennedy's suit-case was lying open on the bed, and he was literally throwing things into it from his chiffonier, as I entered after a hurried trip up-town from the Star office in response to an urgent message from him. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD