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Old Slater O'Shea, the golden goose, was ruler of a peculiar roost. A gaggle of free-loading O'Sheas were lazing around the mansion, letting Slater foot the bills, while they waited for him to die and leave them his money. But Uncle Slater was in fine health, and someone got tired of waiting. When Slater went upstairs for a little nip before his nap, his bottle of bourbon was labeled "Rest in Peace." It was up to Cibola City's finest to find out who'd...
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An exciting mystery by the masterly Ellery Queen
Police captain Bartholdi sometimes indulged himself in a harmless fantasy. His thoughts, he would imagine, were irresponsible imps that wriggled out of his head and scampered around with an abandon that was often embarrassing. A woman had been kidnapped. The woman was dead. Bartholdi was convinced that a murderer was at that moment having a grim laugh at his expense. He knew who the murderer was. He...
3) Trespasser
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She was beautiful in black, and she came with a proposal: Pay $50,000. In return for this reasonable sum, she would guarantee her silence regarding a period of his life...
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"Wildside Press is proud to present the second of Fletcher Flora's series featuring police detective Lt. Joseph Marcus, as part of our ongoing effort to make Flora's collected work available again to the public. We plan to release the entire series.
While Flora had a long career writing much crime, mystery, and detective fiction, Marcus seems to be his only attempt to create a series character. Marcus, as a character, is marked by his dogged rationality,...
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Three ambitious men had three things in common. Each was called Curly. Each aimed to marry the town's tempting heiress. Each had made love to Avis Pisano - the wanton whose mangled body was fished out of the swamp. Each one was capable of cold, ruthless action if his plans for the future were threatened...but only one was capable of murder!
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Who doesn't like a good mystery? Here are 25 great noir crime and mystery stories by some of the top fictioneers of the 20th century, ripped from the pages of such magazines as The Black Mask Mystery Magazine, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Secret Agent X, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine - and many more! Hours of great reading await...if you dare proceed!
LET HER KILL HERSELF, by Rufus King
THE SPENT DAYS, by Fletcher Flora
CONSOLATION PRIZE,...
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Wildside Press is proud to present the first of Fletcher Flora's series featuring police detective Lt. Joseph Marcus, as part of our ongoing effort to make Flora's collected work available again to the public. We plan to release the entire series.
While Flora had a long career writing much crime, mystery, and detective fiction, Marcus seems to be his only attempt to create a series character. Marcus, as a character, is marked by his dogged rationality,...
10) Crazy Quilt
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Wildside Press is proud to present the fifthof Fletcher Flora's series featuring police detective Lt. Joseph Marcus, as part of our ongoing effort to make Flora's collected work available again to the public. We plan to release the entire series.
While Flora had a long career writing much crime, mystery, and detective fiction, Marcus seems to be his only attempt to create a series character. Marcus, as a character, is marked by his dogged rationality,...
11) Obituary
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The tragic tale of a grocer who, unsatisfied with his dull wife and enamored with another woman, decides on murder as the only means to achieve his goals...
Originally published in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Magazine, March 1966.
12) Hell Has No Fury
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Lawyer Solomon Burr has a new client...and it's an old friend of his from law school. Can Sol save his old pal from a murder rap?
This tale is ripped from the April 1953 issue of Dime Detective Magazine. A classic!
14) Not Exactly Love
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Lt. Marcus investigates the murder of a young girl in a library.
17) Refuge
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Refuge may be whatever comes to fulfill one's quest... A classic mystery by Fletcher Flora, originally published in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, October 1968.
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Our second volume of Fletcher Flora's crime and mystery stories collects 20 more tales by the classic author. Included this time are:
HELL HAS NO FURY
THE CLOSING TRAP
HELL FOR HANNAH
THE COLLECTOR COMES AFTER PAYDAY
FAIR GAME
MAY I COME IN?
KILL ME TOMORROW
TRESPASSER
MOST AGREEABLY POISONED
SOUNDS AND SMELLS
A COOL SWIM ON A HOT DAY
IQ - 184
SETTLEMENT OUT OF COURT
FOR MONEY RECEIVED
THE CAPSULE
THE TOOL
ONE ENCHANTED EVENING
SOMETHING...
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Wildside Press is proud to present the fourth of Fletcher Flora's series featuring police detective Lt. Joseph Marcus, as part of our ongoing effort to make Flora's collected work available again to the public. We plan to release the entire series.
In this entry, Lt. Marcus and Sgt. Fuller investigate another puzzling murder - in this case, the death of Phil Stein, slain while mowing his lawn....
While Flora had a long career writing much crime,...
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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 published more than 160 short stories in the top mystery magazines. In his day, he was among the top of his field. This volume collects 26 of his classic...
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