When Earl Derr Biggers created Chinese detective Charlie Chan, he had no idea he had created a media sensation. Novels, movies, TV series, radio programs, comic books—Charlie spawned a whole industry. Now all 6 novels are collected in one ebook, along with 16 more novels and short stories by Biggers (many of them mysteries). In this volume are: <p> THE HOUSE WITHOUT A KEY<BR> THE CHINESE PARROT<BR> BEHIND THAT CURTAIN<BR> THE BLACK CAMEL<BR> CHARLIE CHAN CARRIES ON<BR> KEEPER OF THE KEYS<BR> THE AGONY COLUMN<BR> SEVEN KEYS TO BALDPATE<BR> MOONLIGHT AT THE CROSSROADS<BR> SELLING MISS MINERVA<BR> THE HEART OF THE LOAF<BR> POSSESSIONS<BR> THE DOLLAR CHASERS<BR> IDLE HANDS<BR> THE GIRL WHO PAID DIVIDENDS<BR> A LETTER TO AUSTRALIA<BR> NINA AND THE BLEMISH<BR> BROADWAY BROKE<BR> THE EBONY STICK<BR> FIFTY CANDLES<BR> LOVE INSURANCE<BR> INSIDE THE LINES <P> And don't forget to search this ebook store for «Wildside Megapack» to see many more entries in this series, covering westerns, mysteries, science fiction, and much, much more!
Brian McNaughton's masterful «nasty stories» will shock, amaze, and delight you. From twists upon medieval torture chambers to the weirdest Little Red Riding Hood you'll ever meet, Nasty Stories will take your breath away and hold you rapt: a delightful nightmare of terror and humor in equal parts. Once you've read it, you'll know to be afraid!
This volume assembles no less than 40 stories set in H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. Ranging from Lovecraft's own tales (including classics such as the novel At the Mountains of Madness, «The Shadow Over Innsmouth,» and «The Colour Out of Space») to works by his friends and contemporaries (Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, Frank Belknap Long, and Robert Bloch), to later followers (Henry Kuttner, Lin Carter, Brian McNaughton), and contemporary afficianados (Brian Stableford, Mark McLaughlin, Adrian Cole) – and many more. This is one collection no Lovecraft fan can afford to miss! <P> Included are: <P> "At the Mountains of Madness," by H. P. Lovecraft <BR> "The Events at Poroth Farm," by T.E.D. Klein <BR> "The Return of the Sorcerer," by Clark Ashton Smith <BR> "Worms of the Earth," by Robert E. Howard <BR> "Envy, the Gardens of Ynath, and the Sin of Cain," by Darrell Schweitzer <BR> "Drawn from Life," by John Glasby <BR> "In the Haunted Darkness," by Michael R. Collings <BR> "The Innsmouth Heritage," by Brian Stableford <BR> "The Doom That Came to Innsmouth," by Brian McNaughton <BR> "The Shadow Over Innsmouth," by H. P. Lovecraft <BR> "The Nameless Offspring," by Clark Ashton Smith <BR> "The Hounds of Tindalos," by Frank Belknap Long <BR> "The Faceless God," by Robert Bloch <BR> "The Children of Burma," by Stephen Mark Rainey <BR> "The Call of Cthulhu," by H.P. Lovecraft <BR> "The Old One," by John Glasby <BR> "The Holiness of Azédarac," by Clark Ashton Smith <BR> "Those of the Air," by Darrell Schweitzer and Jason Van Hollander <BR> "The Graveyard Rats," by Henry Kuttner <BR> "Toadface," by Mark McLaughlin <BR> "The Whisperer in Darkness," by H. P. Lovecraft <BR> "The Eater of Hours," by Darrell Schweitzer <BR> "Ubbo-Sathla," by Clark Ashton Smith <BR> "The Space-Eaters," by Frank Belknap Long <BR> "The Fire of Asshurbanipal," by Robert E. Howard <BR> "Beyond the Wall of Sleep," by H.P. Lovecraft <BR> "Something in the Moonlight," by Lin Carter <BR> "The Salem Horror," by Henry Kuttner <BR> "Down in Limbo," by Robert M. Price <BR> "The Dweller in the Gulf," by Clark Ashton Smith <BR> "Azathoth," by H.P. Lovecraft <BR> "Pickman’s Modem," by Lawrence Watt-Evans <BR> "The Hunters from Beyond," by Clark Ashton Smith <BR> "Ghoulmaster," by Brian McNaughton <BR> "The Spawn of Dagon," by Henry Kuttner <BR> "Dark Destroyer," by Adrian Cole <BR> "The Dunwich Horror," by H. P. Lovecraft <BR> "The Dark Boatman," by John Glasby <BR> "Dagon and Jill," by John P. McCann <P> And don't forget to search this ebook store for more entries in the Megapack series – collections covering Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction, Mystery, Adventure … and many more!
This volume assembles 15 complete novels by Mildred A. Wirt (writing as Mildred Benson). A rival to the Nancy Drew series (and created by one of the primary Nancy Drew writers), Penny is a plucky girl reporter whose nose for trouble always leads to a new mystery. Included in this volume are:<P> DANGER AT THE DRAWBRIDGE<BR> BEHIND THE GREEN DOOR<BR> CLUE OF THE SILKEN LADDER<BR> THE SECRET PACT<BR> THE CLOCK STRIKES THIRTEEN<BR> THE WISHING WELL<BR> SABOTEURS ON THE RIVER<BR> GHOST BEYOND THE GATE<BR> HOOFBEATS ON THE TURNPIKE<BR> VOICE FROM THE CAVE<BR> GUILT OF THE BRASS THIEVES<BR> SIGNAL IN THE DARK<BR> WHISPERING WALLS<BR> SWAMP ISLAND<BR> THE CRY AT MIDNIGHT
Ripped from the pages of the October, 1937 issue of Secret Agent "X" magazines comes this sensational novel, The Assassins' League! When a wealthy arms manufacturer and a powerful gang lord both kill themselves – when each had the world by the tail – Secret Agent X looks into the suicides. What is the baffling, contradictory cause of their enigmatic deaths? Worse yet, through the course of his investigation, X's amazing disguises fail him at every turn. A strange, beautiful girl posses the power to see through his perfect impersonizations. Has the Man of a Thousand Faces finally met his match?
Unknown Cause Episode 1 its a fictional story & it is the first chapter of many stories coming about a man who faces the strangest turn of events in his life, his time dimensions changed, he faced unseen before creature with indescribable looks & aura.
Sheriff Mat Scott admitted to himself he was just a Hick Cop, but sometimes a hicktown lawman picks out some clues that the city cops overlook . . . and gets his man for murder!
As consciousness returned to him, Thane fought to push aside the thick curtain of nausea and pain which blanketed his mind. Somewhere in the distance a telephone was ringing with evenly spaced insistence, and Thane tried to struggle to his feet to answer it.<P> “A minute…jus’ minute,” Thane mumbled thickly.<P> He managed somehow to push himself upward on his elbows. Pain lanced molten shafts of agony into his temples and he groaned, clutching tightly to the cool, hard object in his right hand.<P> The telephone still rang.<P> “A minute—” Thane began. And then he saw the gun. It was the cool, hard object he clutched in his right hand. Instinctively his fingers released it, and it thudded softly to the thick brown carpet.<P> The ringing of the telephone jarred him again, its clamor not to be denied; and Thane released his grasp on the davenport, taking an unsteady step in the direction of the sound. He almost stumbled over the body.<P> The telephone had stopped ringing.<P> Thane’s eyes went to the gun he had dropped. It lay less than a yard from the dead man’s hand. In the terrible silence that was louder than noise, Thane stared ashenly at the body.
Father Brown is a fictional Roman Catholic priest and amateur detective who is featured in 53 short stories published between 1910 and 1936 written by English novelist G. K. Chesterton. Father Brown solves mysteries and crimes using his intuition and keen understanding of human nature.<P> Chesterton loosely based the character on the Rt Rev. Msgr. John O'Connor (1870–1952), a parish priest in Bradford, who was involved in Chesterton's conversion to Catholicism in 1922.<P> Includes a biographical introduction by Karl Wurf.
Father Brown is a fictional Roman Catholic priest and amateur detective who is featured in 53 short stories published between 1910 and 1936 written by English novelist G. K. Chesterton. Father Brown solves mysteries and crimes using his intuition and keen understanding of human nature.<P> Chesterton loosely based the character on the Rt Rev. Msgr. John O'Connor (1870–1952), a parish priest in Bradford, who was involved in Chesterton's conversion to Catholicism in 1922.<P> Includes a biographical introduction by Karl Wurf.