Bøger af Hugh Pentecost

Max Adrian was the rare stamp broker everyone in the know avoided. It never mattered to the shifty broker, until someone demanded a refund at gunpoint.Soon afterward, a dishy dame convinces Larry Storm, Adrian's rival, to play amateur detective for a hidden cache of priceless stamps. Storm is one step ahead of the tenacious Inspector Luke Bradley, who's one step behind a cold-blooded killer - and Storm had better start running....Cancelled in Red appeared in Argosy magazine, touted as the $10,000 prize winner of the 1939 Dodd Mead Mystery Contest. The novel also grabbed the $1,000 Red Badge Prize Mystery title, and launched the career of "Hugh Pentecost," the pen name to the prolific Judson P. Philips, author of mysteries.

When ex-riveter Pat Cain accepted Emily Stoddard's offer to finance his singing career, he found himself hob-nobbing with a clique of voice teachers, theatrical coaches, a numerologist and an Indian Chief. It never occurred to him that violence and death simmered beneath the emotional outbursts of that motley crowd until Inspector Luke Bradley appeared, seeking information about Lydia Eagan, another of Emily's proteges, who had either been pushed or had jumped out of a hotel window. Thrill follows thrill in this engrossing mystery as Cain gives Bradley a sleuthing assist while trying to shield a lovely girl. "Fine puzzle and good, tough dialogue." - New Yorker

Luke Bradley is no stranger to murder, but the stakes have never been higher-the defense of American lives from Japanese forces. The action begins when screenwriter Chris Wells travels from the west coast to a naval repair base on a barren island. Amid angry rumors and suspicion, Bradley and Wells race to unmask a saboteur before the civilian laborers turn upon each other. "An unusually well-plotted and well-written story with the suspects limited to the members of a small group. Action, suspense and plenty of thrills from start right down to finish...." - New York Times "A sharp, fast, exciting yarn, vivid with a refreshingly realistic patriotism...." - San Francisco Chronicle "A realistic and exciting murder mystery story...." - Chicago Tribune

Just as Cancelled in Red took Inspector Luke Bradley, the soft-spoken, hard-boiled cop, through the intriguing maze of the stamp collecting racket, so this mystery tangles Bradley up in the fast tanbark crowd. The 24th Horse gallops after a host of hard-faced people, some of them with more money than is good for them - and others, unfortunately, with far too little. From the minute Johnny Curtin drives a coupé with the body of a murdered girl in the rumble seat to Inspector Bradley's door, this novel keeps moving - fast! The 24th Horse is a tense, absorbing mystery novel that will hold the reader to the final page as Bradley sets a trap for a desperate killer - and finds himself face to face with death!

From the creative mind of Hugh Pentecost comes a terrifying and prophetic novel that potentially influenced the Chowchilla kidnapping in 1976. The Day the Children Vanished is not for the faint of heart, as readers are taken down the rabbit hole of the mysterious disappearance of nine children, the school bus they rode on, and its driver. On a bright, clear winter afternoon, nine children in the town of Clayton disappeared from the face of the earth on their commute to the Regional School of Lakeview. Missing with the children are the bus in which they traveled and its driver…​ They vanished completely. So mysteriously so that some distraught citizen of Clayton suggest it was as if they’d been sucked up into outer space by a monstrous interplanetary vacuum cleaner. Dive into the mysterious, twisted mind of the winner of the Grand Master Award from Mystery Writers of America and see for yourself just how the nine children of Clayton disappeared that winter. One of Hugh Pentecost’s most tantalizing stories, Pentecost has “a certain hand and a crafty mind” (The New Yorker).

This volume assembled a pair of classic mystery novels. First, Secret Corridors, by Hugh Pentecost ("A Lieut. Luke Bradley Case") presents a hotel-based crime story. Then comes Week-End to Kill, by Frederick Nebel.