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Tag Archives: 1930s

Mystery in White – J. Jefferson Farjeon

2015-12-12

A group of travelers seek shelter from a blizzard at a country home—they find the fire roaring, the tea boiling, but nobody home. A crime is afoot, and there’s a murderer in their midst…

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The Z Murders – J. Jefferson Farjeon

2015-08-31

Richard Temperley finds his erstwhile travel companion—a disagreeable fellow passenger—dead, with a mysterious woman and a crimson metal “Z” the only clues to the murderer…

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Dividend on Death – Brett Halliday

2015-07-11

When Phyllis Brighton begs Mike Shayne to keep her from killing her mother, Shayne takes the job—only for the mother to end up dead, with Phyllis as prime suspect.

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Antidote to Venom – Freeman Wills Crofts

2015-06-26

Desperate for enough money to buy his perfect life, zoo director George Surridge is sucked into a web of murder—how will Inspector French unravel this one?

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The Complete Crime Stories – James M. Cain

2015-06-10

A new work collecting seventeen of James M. Cain’s short stories, including “The Baby in the Icebox,” “Brush Fire,” “Coal Black,” “Career in C Major,” and “The Embezzler.”

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The Feminine Future – ed. Mike Ashley

2015-04-03

A collection of fourteen early science fiction stories, all written by female authors, originally published between 1873 and 1930.

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Murder in Piccadilly – Charles Kingston

2015-03-18

The only thing between Bobbie Cheldon and marrying the love of his live is his lack of cold, hard cash—an inheritance he won’t collect until his uncle has passed away…

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The Sussex Downs Murder – John Bude

2015-03-14

“Already it looked as if the police were up against a carefully planned and cleverly executed murder, and, what was more, a murder without a corpse!”

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The Four-Sided Triangle – William F. Temple

2015-01-17

Two brilliant scientists, one beautiful woman, who only loves one of the men. What luck they’ve already developed a Reproducer and can make their own four-sided love triangle…

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Gallery

Adventures in Art – Virgil Finlay’s Color Covers

2014-12-16

Virgil Finlay (1914 – 1971) was one of the dominant speculative fiction magazine artists of his day; he started doing illustrations for Weird …

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Jamaica Inn – Daphne du Maurier

2014-11-22

Young Mary Yellan goes to live with her aunt and uncle at their establishment, the Jamaica Inn, only to find out it’s a hotbed of smuggling… and far worse.

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