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A policeman tasked with keeping order in a seedy section of town learns he's to have a partner. They get along famously, and as the months pass they seem like a proper crime-fighting duo. Then one night they encounter the policeman's old high school rival-turned-criminal in the process of escaping a robbery…
Nick Carter #741 - The Green Scarab
Originally published March 11, 1911, here is issue #741 of the famous Nickel Weekly, Nick Carter Stories. This ebook contains the Nick Carter novel THE GREEN SCARAB.
Gator Bait
When Chat, a boy living in the Bayou,, goes out «Gator Baiting» with his stepfather, he is reluctant, but his abusive «Pa» steamrolls over him.
Coffee And—
The detective “team” in this story, Tommy Twotoes and Terry Bob Rooke, known as “Soldier,” were introduced in my first two mystery novels, Most Men Don’t Kill and Murder in Black and White, both published by Random House in 1951. The main character, Tommy Twotoes, was (aside from his 300-pound avoir-dupois) based upon my great good friend, the late “Sunny Jim” Coffroth. Coffroth was without question the greatest sports promoter of all time, and I’m not forgetting Rickard or any of the others. He was also one of the zaniest and most completely lovable human beings I have ever known. Twotoes was criticized in some quarters as being on the fantastic side. The answer to that is that I had to tone the real Coffroth down when I depicted him as the fictional Twotoes, for I knew no editor of fiction would accept the true-life article as being remotely possible. As for Rooke, Tommy was crippled from alcoholic neuritis and needed a pair of legs. I invented the Soldier to supply my hefty hero with a means of locomotion. Rooke, I think, derived mainly out of the nowhere into the here. He was depicted in my early novels as being a veteran of the iron coffins (tanks) in War Number Two and as liking his likker. In those two small respects, at least, he resembled his creator.
The Hong Kong Airbase Murders
In Hong Kong, a company has developed a fuel additive that increases mileage markedly. All the world powers want it. But when the formula is stolen from the company safe, only Hugh North can find it—if he lives long enough!
No One Noticed the Cat
After the death of wise old Mangan, the Regent of Esphania, many of the regent's skills and qualities seem to have been transferred to his beautiful and intelligent cat, Niffy, who at once attaches herself to the new ruler, Prince Jamas. When the king of a neighboring kingdom seems keen to forge an alliance with Jamas by allowing the prince to marry his niece, the real danger is Yasmin, the wicked queen wife, who poisons everyone she dislikes or suspects of interfering with her ambitions. Now, Niffy must guide Jamas through a thicket of difficulties to save the Prince Jamas from a horrible fate!
The Case of the Late Pig (Albert Campion #8)
A highly unpleasant old schoolfellow of Albert Campion's manages to get himself murdered—twice.
Flowers for the Judge (Campion #7)
Scandal hits the prestigious publishing house of Barnabas when one of the directors is found dead in a locked cellar.<P> All eyes are on the other partners at the firm – cousins of the dead man with much to gain from his demise – and all rumours hint at a connection to the disappearance of another director decades earlier.<P> Desperate to salvage their reputation, the cousins turn to Albert Campion – but will his investigations clear the Barnabas family name, or besmirch it forever?
Black Plumes
The slashing of a valuable painting at the renowned Ivory Gallery in London, followed by the murder of the proprietor's son-in-law, sets the stage for another fine Allingham mystery.