James Holding: 33 books

We present for your reading pleasure a selection of 25 stories by prolific crime & mystery author James Holding. We have named this collection "Conmen & Cutthroats" because Mr. Holding had a penchant for sharp tales involving smart criminals who use their wits to succeed, as well as those whose schemes...

Welcome to the third volume of The Black Cat Mystery Community’s THRILLOGY series, celebrating classic mystery short stories. Included this time are three classic tales by James Holding: "Career Man," "The Tahitian Powder Box Mystery," and "A Deal in Rubies."

James Holding enjoys a reputation as one of the more prolific contributors to the mystery magazines of the 1960s and 1970s. (Our bibliography shows nearly 200 stories published in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Magazine, etc.) He had...

Murder -- it's one of the staples of mystery fiction. One of the unwritten rules of the mystery novel is to start your murder in the first chapter...and on the first page, if possible! Collected here are 22 tales of murder. Some are fiendish. ("The Doorbell" is especially chilling.) Some...

Die Anthologie Korrosion - zusammengestellt und herausgegeben von Christian Dörge - enthält fünfundzwanzig ebenso erstklassige wie spannende Crime-Erzählungen internationaler Spitzenautoren des Genres: Storys von James Holding, Donald Honig, Borden Deal, Bob Bristow, Dion Henderson, Arthur Porges,...

Two high school boys are exposed to danger when they set out to solve the theft from a local museum of five ceremonial Egyptian fingertips. This book is one of two original Young Adult novels written by James Holding (the other being The Mystery of Dolphin Inlet). In addition, Holding wrote the Ellery...

Pete Hobbs, a fisherman's son in the Florida Keys, and Susan Frost, a go-getter from Tallahassee, join forces one summer to investigate strange happenings in Dolphin Inlet. Their quest will ultimately lead them into danger -- with a sunken treasure as the ultimate reward...if they can find it -- and...

The Third Mystery MEGAPACK® collects 26 modern and classic mysteries. Here are: THE AFRICAN FISH MYSTERY, by James Holding THE EBONY STICK, by Earl Derr Biggers CHICKENS FOR CHARLIE, by Arlette Lees DOUBLE DOUBLE-CROSS, by Jack London Berkebile THE DOOMDORF MYSTERY, by Melville Davisson Post CAPTAIN...

James Holding (1907-1997) was a prolific short story author in the mystery field. (He also wrote children's books -- including the Ellery Queen Jr. series -- but short stories were his true domain.) Among the many series he created, the "Library Fuzz" stories, about detective Hal Johnson who tracks...

The Second Adventure MEGAPACK® assembles 23 tales (and a poem) of grand adventure. We’ve plundered a wide variety of sources to bring you an assortment of rip-roaring action tales, exotic locales, and even a little romance—spanning many continents and time periods. So hold onto your hat (if you’re...

The fifth installment in James Holding's classic "The Photographer" series about a professional assassin. One of his best series.

The first installment in James Holding's classic "The Photographer" series about a professional assassin. One of his best.

The fourth installment in James Holding's classic "The Photographer" series about a professional assassin. One of his best series.

The sixth installment in James Holding's classic "The Photographer" series about a professional assassin. One of his best series.