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Jennie must surely regret her impersonation of the Princess von Steinheimer at the Duchess of Chiselhurst’s Ball. Detectives know it wasn't the real Princess and are pressing her for more information. And, in the meantime, she received a letter from her Highness: "My dear Jennie,” her Highness wrote, “I am sure the detectives are after you, and so I thought it best to send you a word of warning. Of course it is only surmise on my part, but for days there has been a woman hovering about the castle, trying to get information from my servants. My maid came directly to me and told me what she knew. The woman detective had spoken to her. This inquisitive person, who had come from Paris, wished particularly to know whether I had been seen about the castle during the week in which the Duchess of Chiselhurst’s ball took place; and so this leads me to suppose that some one is making inquiries for you. It must be either Lord Donal Stirling or the Duke of Chiselhurst, but I rather think it is the former. I have written an indignant letter to Lord Donal, accusing him of having caused detectives to haunt the castle. I have not yet received a reply, but Lord Donal is a truthful person, and in a day or two I expect to find out whether or not he has a hand in this business. Meanwhile, Jennie, be on your guard, and I will write you again as soon as I have something further to tell.” Ominous developments, indeed! And how does the Prime Minister fit into all this?

Kedrick and his mad band of gangsters seize Dr. Morgan and force him to reveal a great scientific secret that the criminal plans to use to bring horrible death to his enemies! Teague, the reporter, is about to inform the authorities and thus save a city from disaster—but Kedrick is too quick!

The Thrillogy series presents 3 works by a single author—in this case, one of the legends of horror pulp fiction. Seabury Quinn (1889–1969) was an American government lawyer, journalist, and pulp magazine author, most famous for his stories of the occult detective Jules de Grandin, published in Weird Tales. Included are: "The Last Man," "Glamour," and "Birthright"—all from Weird Tales magazine.

Fallout continues from Jennie's impersonation of the Princess von Steinheimer at the Duchess of Chiselhurst’s Ball—with a detective now on the trail of the impersonator! Fourth in the Jennie Baxter series. Includes an introduction by John Betancourt.

This volume of the best-selling MEGAPACK series presents 5 classic Nick Carter stories. Included are: The Man Without a ConscienceThe Crime of the French Café Nick Carter's Ghost StoryThe Mystery of St. Agnes HospitalSnarled IdentitiesA Broken Bond If you enjoy this ebook, check out the more than 400 more titles in the MEGAPADCK® series, showcasing huge collections of science fiction, mystery, adventure, ghost stories—and much, much more. Search your favorite ebook stores for "Wildside Press MEGAPACK" to see all the available titles.

"The Teacher from Mars" became an instant classic when it was published in the February 1941 issue of the classic pulp magazine, Thrilling Wonder Stories. It concerns a Martian who comes to Earth as a teacher, experiencing—in the wake of a devastating war—racism and intolerance. Told from the first person viewpoint of an alien, it was unusual for its time, and Eando Binder (the pseudonym of Otto O. Binder) selected it as his best work for the 1954 anthology, My Best Scieince Fiction Story.

“The Wentworth Letter,” which won the Robert L. Fish Memorial Award for best first published mystery story, is about a college professor who attempts to buy a stolen letter by Jane Austen and sell it to a wealthy Austen fanatic—his mother. He discovers that such scams, much like Jane Austen’s novels, are not nearly so easy to pull off as they appear. The Barb Goffman Presents series showcases modern masterpieces of mystery, crime, and suspense selected by acclaimed mystery author and editor Barb Goffman.

Joseph J. Millard's great reputation to pulp science fiction fans rests largely on two works—his short novels The Gods Hate Kansas and Thunder to Venus. Thunder to Venus is a rip-roaring adventure set in space, as Titus Conway, a ruthless business tycoon, blacklists Lane Shannon and tries to banish him from the space-ways. There's a bitter showdown coming in the trackless void, pitting one determined man against the vast resources of an interstallar company!

John Lux was an electronic scientist, a level-headed industrialist, an ordinary twentieth-century man—at least he thought he was an ordinary man...until he discovered he could teleport himself! ...Until he discovered that forces 200,000 years beyond his time were trying to destroy him! Until he discovered that civilization of the future was being pampered into extinction in a kindergarten world -- and he was the only man in all eternity who could save it!

Being caught, bloody gun in hand, leaning over the body of the man he had threatened to kill forces bronc-buster Glenn Crawford to turn up at the Big O ranch, a weary, footsore fugitive with more than one score to settle.Even the murder of the ranch owner in San Antonio had not prepared Crawford for the state of affairs he finds at the ranch. His sudden presence there seems to scare some of the crew half to death and lead others to try to kill him every chance they get. For the moment, however, Crawford is more interested in the state of affairs in his own body than in those of the Big O and the murderer he is sure the ranch harbors. A veteran of the saddle, Crawford discovers that since an accident which he suspects was planned, he goes into a frenzy of pain and trembling panic whenever he gets near a horse. But in spite of the torture it costs him, Crawford stays on at the ranch. He knows he cannot be a free man until he finds the murderer of Otis Rockland. Nor can he be a whole man until he conquers the black devil of a killer horse, Africano. After he meets Merida Lopez, an exotic beauty whose presence at the Big O is surrounded by mystery, he has a third motive for staying around, although he stands to lose his reason if not his life. Trapped by forces which he cannot understand, and half-crazed by the torturing pain and panic which he tries desperately both to overcome and to hide, Crawford gets himself more and more hopelessly entangled in what, as old Delcazar points out, looks like the most dangerous thing that ever hit the wild brush country. Crawford is offered a strange proposition by sinister Dr. Huerta; he listens to Merida's spellbinding tale of Santa Anna's chests—and as he listens, the jagged third of a map he possesses, plus a dying man's painfully gasped out words, take on a new and important meaning; he waits, trapped, weaponless, for a killer to come nearer, nearer—And he delivers to his other pursuers the body of one sent out to kill him—only to become more deeply enmeshed in new and still more terrifying trouble. Crawford's irritation at being stirred by Merida, whom he alternately respects and suspects of playing him for a fool, doesn't prevent him from riding secretly with her in the night in search of a place so malicious few men have ever stepped foot in it. Nor does it later prevent him from risking an agonizing death to follow her into it. Before the true murderer reveals himself, and before Crawford can again call himself a whole man, much violent action takes place. Set against the exciting background of the untamed Texas border country, this is a thrilling brew of suspense, quick death, adventure, and love.

This classic interview with George R.R. Martin, conducted by World Fantasy Award-winning editor Darrell Schweitzer, originally appeared in Science Fiction Review #17, May 1976.

The old battle between East and West is heating up again, after a hundred years of uneasy peace, and robots may hold the key to victory. Only the other side is ten years ahead in research...

The ship suddenly jolted slightly and became still. The throbbing of the tremendous rocket engines ceased; the vessel lay in the half-shade of towering trees that stretched upwards to surprising heights against the slight gravity. The multiple lights of Saturn and the moons filled the outside jungle with a curiously ghostly white tinge, not unlike indirect floodlighting.

Something was desperately wrong out in the void of space, and Gregg had the unfortunate assignment to track it down—and fix the problem, whatever it might be!

Psychologists said that James Forrest Carroll had lost his mind—but they were forced to admit that he alone could save the Solar System from a fearsome menace from the outer reaches! A classic pulp science fiction novel, first published in Startling Stories (July, 1947). Introduction by John Betancourt.

From the time he could toddle, Rawley had been taught that he must not go near the west wing of the house or approach the brooding old man in the wheelchair. There had been vague hints that Grandfather King was not quite right in his mind; that a brooding melancholy held him, and that he would suffer no one but his servant near him. Now, after nearly thirty years of studied aloofness, his grandfather had summoned him.So began the greatest adventure of his life...