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A Gentleman of Leisure
The action begins with bachelor Jimmy Pitt in New York; having fallen in love on a transatlantic liner, he befriends a small-time burglar and breaks into a police captain's house as a result of a bet. The cast of characters head to England, and from there on it is a typically Wodehousean romantic story, set at the stately Dreever Castle, overflowing with imposters, detectives, crooks, scheming lovers and conniving aunts. Great fun!
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By the Light of the Study Lamp
Jean and Louise Dana are given a valuable study lamp by their Uncle Ned. The girls plan to place it in their study room at Starhurst when they return for their sophomore year. But before the girls leave, the lamp is stolen! After the sisters return to Starhurst, they discover the lamp in a secondhand shop and buy it back. Unwittingly, the girls make an enemy of their classmate, Lettie Briggs, not only because the girl had planned to buy the lamp but because the Danas' room is the one Lettie wanted to have at Starhurst.
The Danas are overjoyed when they discover that their friend Evelyn Starr has returned to Starhurst. Evelyn's family once owned Starhurst, but Evelyn and her brother now have very little money, and Evelyn is unsure that she can pay for the tuition. The Danas hope that they can find a way to help Evelyn stay at Starhurst, little realizing that the solution to Evelyn's problem is held within the antique study lamp.
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Crooked Souls
When the daughter of San Francisco industrialist Harvey Gatewood is kidnapped, the Continental Op and local police are brought in to try to get her back.
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Dead Man's Hat
When New York's most powerful criminal gang plans to get control of the largest city bank, Dave Westover, a clerk, found himself inextricably involved in the maelstrom of events.
First, lovely Paula Wrenn's appeal for help sent him riding around New York in a taxicab with a dead man at his feet. Then, accused of two more murders, he spent days and nights avoiding both the police and the underworld, his face on the front page of every paper, his life constantly in danger.
Checked at almost every turn, he managed to get enough evidence to convict the man whose unscrupulous use of his power was threatening the safety of the city's banks—the man responsible for scores of hitherto unsolved murders!
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Desert Bound
Cowboy John Curry had sworn to protect Mary Newton from her shiftless, drunken husband. And when he learned that Wilbur Newton was involved in treacherous activities that would doom the desert Indians, his determination hardened to steel.
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Morgue Ship
This was Burnett's last trip. Three more shelves to fill with space-slain warriors—and he would be among the living again.
Ray Bradbury's classic science fiction story was first published in Planet Stories, a famous pulp fiction magazine, in the Summer 1944 issue.
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No More Parades
The second of the Parade's End novels, set behind the front lines in France in 1915. Christopher Tietjens is now a Captain in charge of some major logistics operations. These operations include moving a group of railway workers, volunteers from Canada! Captain Tietjens is more of an idealist at the novel's start than at its end.
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The Almost Perfect Murder
A collection of crime fiction short stories featuring Madame Rosika Storey and her resourceful assistant Bella Brickley. Mme. Storey unravels complex cases with thorough investigation and an understanding of human nature.
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The Bowl of Brass
Paul Wellman knows his Kansas and gives the reader the feel of the plains, of the sky “the bowl of brass”, of the loneliness outside the tiny communities, and the bitter core within the communities themselves. This has the quality of catching the feel of the opening West... it has no specific characters or incidents associated with history, and yet there is a note of authority in his background of political shenanigans as the tiny town of Jericho through its “boss” makes a bid for county seat, for state official recognition, for railroad right of way. The story centers on an odd triangle situation,—there’s a lovely girl married to an old man, a skinflint who grinds every ounce possible out of his hired man—and eventually loses all in the process. A moving story with a somewhat sensational finale, but a good picture of the opening west ’round about 1880.
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The Case of the Invisible Circle
A beautiful coed is raped and murdered. Only one clue is found, so small that it is invisible to the naked eye. Can such a tiny lead bring a murderer to justice?
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The Crystal Cup
Drawing her title from George Sterling's poem "Into a crystal cup the dusky wine I pour" Atherton begins her exploration of Freudian theories, disecting contemporary morals and inhibitions.
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The Secret at Lone Tree Cottage
Miss Tisdale, Jean and Louise Dana's favorite teacher, disappears mysteriously one afternoon. The Danas search for clues and discover her car abandoned on a nearby road. The key is still in the ignition, and there are signs of a struggle. Miss Tisdale has been abducted!
Jean and Louise learn that Miss Tisdale has been supporting her widowed twin sister, who has been disowned by their parents ever since she married. Mrs. Brixton is being threatened by her husband's former partner, and the Danas suspect that this man is responsible for Miss Tisdale's strange disappearance.
The police cannot be contacted, because Miss Tisdale's father is in frail health and the shock of her disappearance could kill him. The Danas seek Uncle Ned Dana's help in tracking down Miss Tisdale, and the three Danas undertake their difficult mission without assistance.
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The Under Dogs
"The pursuit by a super-woman detective, Madame Rosika Storey, of a strongly organized band of criminals whose speciality is jewel robbery on a gigantic scale. Rosika, in disguise, first has herself sent to prison, then is helped to escape by the organization, who thereupon accept her into their midst as a probationary, apprentice member. The directing genius of the group does not appear in person till the end, when Rosika traps him, but oversees from afar the undertakings of his 'operatives.' These latter he entrusts to the care of a fearful female Fagin who keeps house for them in a Greenwich Village den." —The Saturday Review
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The Velvet Hand
"Madame Rosika Storey is a beautiful detecative who solves four cases for you in a manner most effecative, arriving at conclusions by processes subliminal, since intuition is her guide in locating the criminal. And since her intuition is so perfectly reliable, and backed up by ingenious proof whose force is undeniable—all of which of course is written in a manner most enj’yable—we’re sure that you’ll agree no crook could ever catch Rosika out, and if you ever need a dick we hope that you will seek her out." —The Outlook
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The White Cheyenne
Terence Oliver Paul Rivers was named after the three black sheep of his aristocratic Southern family. Perhaps it was perverse, but he grew up the wildest, craziest bucko of them all. Charleston couldn't hold him. A well-placed bullet between the eyes of a dueling opponent took care of that. So Terence headed west to Zander City. There he met the legendary Lost Wolf, a white man who'd been raised by the savage Cheyennes.
Lost Wolf had turned out so crazy that the Cheyennes wouldn't make him a chief even though he was their best fighter. Between this untamed white Indian and the runaway Southern aristocrat developed the strangest friendship in the history of the West!
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Tigre
Pepe, the young Mexican goatherd, has many battles to fight—against the ominous superstitions of Uncle Ruiz; in defense of his American friend, Sam; and hardest of all, against the killer tigre or jaguar which took the life of Pepe's father and threatened to destroy the family herd of goats, their very livelihood.
In the Mexican wilds, Pepe found that a staunch friend and inherent courage may mean more than a costly rifle, even in meeting the vicious fury of a wounded tigre!
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