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William P. McGivern, a popular and prolific fantasy and science fiction writer in the 1940s and 1950s (under his own name as well as the pseudonyms Gerald Vance and P.F. Costello), later achieved fame as a noir and hardboiled mystery author of such classics as "The Big Heat." The William P. McGivern...

The pulp magazines of the early to mid 20th Century are often "politically incorrect" by modern standards. However, the "Spicy" magazines -- Spicy-Adventure Stories, Spicy Mystery, Spicy Western, etc. -- were politically incorrect by their own contemporary standards as well. With...

This volume collects 4 classic Nick Carter novels: Nick Carter at Headquarters Scylla, the Sea Robber Nick Carter and the Marixburg Affair The Plot of the Poisoner If you enjoy this ebook, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see...

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...

The Crime and Corruption Novel MEGAPACK® presents 4 great books by two different authors: Thomas B. Dewey and Burt Arthur. Included are: A Season for Violence, by Thomas B. Dewey Run, Brother, Run!, by Thomas B. Dewey Empty Saddles, by Burt Arthur. Kiss Me Hard is copyright © 1953 by Thomas B. Dewey....

We are delighted to present our second collection of Talmage Powell mystery short stories! Powell (1920-2000) was one of the all-time great mystery writers of the pulp magazines (and later the digest mystery magazines). He claimed to have written more than 500 short stories, and we have no reason to...

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...

The Horatio Alger MEGAPACK® presents 70 Classic Works by the great 19th century author. Here are: ADVENTURES OF A TELEGRAPH BOY DIGGING FOR GOLD MARK THE MATCH BOY BOB BURTON ANDY GORDON THE BACKWOODS BOY A BOY'S FORTUNE A DEBT OF HONOR BERNARD BROOKS' ADVENTURES WAIT AND HOPE MARK MASON'S VICTORY ROBERT...

Here are 4 classic mysteries for younger readers: Sea View Secret, by Elizabeth Kinsey When the Bowmans moved to the suburbs, Peter and Jane discovered there weren't any kids their own age in the neighborhood...except at Sea View, a crumbling old mansion with a secret all its own! The Mystery of Morgan...

The Golden Age of Mystery & Crime MEGAPACK™ series focuses on unjustly forgotten mystery writers from the 1960s and before. Fletcher Flora is a perfect example. Beginning in the 1950s, Flora wrote a string of 20 great novels -- mysteries, suspense, plus three pseudonymously as "Ellery Queen." He also...

Stephen Wasylyk (1922-1996) was a prolific author for both Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine and Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, penning more than 175 mysteries. He only published short stories during a career than spanned four decades. CONSOLATION PRIZE LESSON FOR A PRO TEN DOLLAR$...

This is one of our smaller MEGAPACKs in that it only has two novels—but it collects the complete “Flash Evans” series, by Mildred Wirt. If you don’t recognize her name, it’s because she primarily worked behind pseudonyms. Most famously, she was the writer behind the original Nancy Drew novels,...

Cleveland Moffett is most famous for his mystery story "The Mysterious Card" ((included in this volume, along with its sequel), but he also wrote true crime and more traditional mysteries. Also included here are the long novel THROUGH THE WALL and a collection of true crime stories, TRUE...

The Suspense Novel MEGAPACK ™ is the first in what we hope will become a long-running series collecting (obviously enough) novels of suspense. To kick things off, we have selected 4 books we hope you will find interesting and entertaning: CAN A MERMAID KILL? by Thomas B. Dewey An exciting...