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A delightful look at the history and folklore of spaghetti and its arrival in America. Included are numerous historic and favorite spaghetti recipes.

A golf game turns dark as a ball in the rough leads to a corpse . . . Detective Napoleon B. Smith must set aside his feelings to track down the killer.

An enjoyable guide to Chinese food, with recipes, first published in 1958 by the proprietor of the first Chinese restaurant in America (started by his grandfather).

Playboy millionaire Ronald Tompkins had married six breathlessly beautiful girls and was ready to elope with the seventh and loveliest when someone terminated his marriage marathon with a .32 calibre bullet. The task of finding a slayer while surrounded by this fascinating array of suspects falls to Detective Mack McGann.

Buried scandals in a Colorado "ghost town" come to the surface when a professor starts asking questions about a tragic narrow-gauge railroad accident. The high-altitude town of Glory Cloud provides a richly detailed background as the professor's secretary finds herself pushed into an investigation that becomes more hazardous at every step.

A successful mystery author finds herself in a quandary when her seat-mate on a train, a young soldier with something on his mind, describes a plan for murder. Keeping watch, she reads of a suspicious death in the young man's home town a few years later and embarks on a mission to solve the case.

Judge Massie prefers reeeelaxin' to his law practice, but his good-humored intelligence is tested when he finds himself involved in a puzzling mystery with disappearing corpses that may or may not actually be dead.

Classic short stories of encounters with strange, unknown, and sometimes unearthly beasts.

Members of the Serpentine Club investigate the death of a beautiful and mysterious Argentine woman who lives in a Washington, D.C., mansion.

Cartoonist Terry Moore introduces a murder to his comic strip, only to raise the ire of a Mob boss and the suspicion of the police.

Young Dr. Dunn is acting as locum for Dr. Wright, whose practice is on Guernsey, in the Channel Islands. Dr. Dunn finds much of interest in the mix of French and English influences on the island, but nothing unusual about his work, until a strange old man that he has visited goes missing, then turns up dead. Certain peculiarities spark doubts in the doctor's mind about the man's death, while strange circumstances continue to arise and island blackguards threaten from the shadows. Finally, Dr. Dunn reaches out to a friend, Detective Francis McNab, to join him on the island in hopes of examining the accumulating evidence and figuring out just what is going on . . .

Actress Floren Lawrence is poisoned at an exclusive Sunset Strip gown shop, and shop-owner Mira Hira finds herself in the middle of a murder investigation.

Alec Maitland, after several years abroad, returns to London down on his luck, when he meets a former friend, Charles Biddulph, an official in one of the chief Government Offices in Whitehall. Biddulph, aware of Maitland's special gifts and at the moment in need of a secret agent whose connection with the Ministry would not be suspected, offers him a commission to ferret out certain strange happenings which threaten a British Crown Colony in Africa. Maitland, temporarily living over a tobacco shop in Soho and selling photographic enlargements for a dealer, accepts with alacrity. But he soon finds the job much more difficult and dangerous than it was represented by Biddulph, when the scene moves from London to the Scottish grouse moor.The tale is one of the open air, of wits pitted against wits, of bloodshed, of hair-breadth escapes, of flight and pursuit, of intrigue in high places, finishing with a piece of neat detection and a surprise both for the guileless Maitland and the reader.Night in Glengyle was published in 1933.

Inspector Norton Kane encounters two more puzzling mysteries. First, a wealthy man has teased his relatives with his wealth for years, and now he's dead. Then, two aged brothers live with their families in separate sections of the same ancestral home. The one who outlives the other receives their father's wealth, a recipe for murder for certain.

Inspector Norton Kane of the Boston police has taken time off to recover from a nasty bout of influenza, but is enticed into personally investigating a strange household, where an elderly man claims someone is plotting to kill him.

Two puzzling mysteries with Inspector Norton Kane of the Boston police. In the first, a stock exchange gambler trying to climb the social ladder is murdered, but the only clear suspect would surely not have committed such a faux pas. Then, a young man living in a boarding house claims someone is working against him; his body is found to prove it.

Deadly fires break out at a New England summer home, as an eccentric and elderly New York millionaire claims that there is a plot to murder him.

A submarine disaster is followed by murder, and retired Admiral Wetherbee follows the clues . . .

A routine business trip to France leads to a puzzling mystery and disturbing characters. From CoachwhipBooks.com.

In the midst of a demonstration staged by sit-down strikers, WPA Administrator Henry Ireton is murdered at his desk. Ex-newspaperman Jim Moore has been sent from Washington to look into trouble in Ireton's district, and finds himself both the temporary new deputy administrator and sidekick to Lieut. Pietro Tonelli, the hard-boiled but human ace of the Homicide Squad, as they investigate the murder. The killer strikes again, but Moore and Tonelli discover further trouble as evidence arises that a secretive criminal organization has spread its tentacles throughout Ireton's district, threatening to spread nationwide. Politics and murder go hand in hand in Murder in the WPA.Murder in the WPA was published in 1937. (More classic mysteries available from CoachwhipBooks.com.)

A scream, mounting higher and higher over the bustle and clatter back-stage at the Bolton Theatre- A woman staggers from the star's dressing-room, her white satin gown stained and patterned with the gory foot-prints of a little dog, her face contorted into a mask of horror-But the show must go on!The audience must be entertained-must laugh-while murder stalks among them. A killer may be on the stage among the players, he may be among the musicians in the orchestra, or he may be sitting there among the spectators.Anything might happen here. The Bolton Theatre is known to the theatrical profession as a "jinx house."Defying convention, public opinion, the press, the District Attorney himself, Detective-Sergeant Pietro Tonelli, who glories in the proud title of "cop," carries out a bold plan to detect a murderer who has come and gone like a phantom.A crisp story, with action in every line. A glamorous picture of life behind the scenes of a great city written by a newspaper man who knows.The Jinx Theatre Murder was published in 1933. (More classic mysteries available from CoachwhipBooks.com.)

The body of Dr. John R. Holstead, Gramercy Park inventor and owner of a wholesale drug house, is hurled out of an airplane above Market Street in Newark. Suspects are plentiful: his latest (and missing) formula is worth millions (as foreign agents well know), his nephew is suspected of peddling cocaine, his late best friend's grasping widow is in dire need of money, and some clues point to shifty smugglers. Detective Sergeant 'Pete' Tonelli of New York's homicide squad untangles the clues, leading to a lively climax and desperate battle. Death over Newark was published in 1933.

Johnny Angel, hard-working mechanic, was eager to aid the war effort, but company management wouldn't work with the union to streamline efficiency. A strange encounter and a mysterious code thrust Johnny into a fight to clear his name from a murder rap. "Johnny on the Spot" is a decidedly pro-Labor vintage mystery with plenty of action!

A body is found after a disastrous fire at Haunted Mine, but it was clear case of murder. How could the murderer have escaped the heat and poisonous air?

Who killed a dying man? A handful of suspects are trapped by a winter storm on an island in the middle of an Adirondack lake. But the killer isn't finished yet . . .

The Cisco Kid and Pancho serve well-aimed justice to outlaws and villains in the Wild West. This collection includes five issues of the original Dell Comics version of these popular western characters.

But for the blistering June heat, Shadwell Dunn's old mansion would not have known its strangest and most sinister adventure. Three men would have died in their beds instead of in their boots. And little old Professor Ames, with wistful eyes and a mop of white hair, would never have wandered those ancient rooms, determined to save the fourth man.

A weekend dinner party turns deadly for the management of a large Fifth Avenue department store, and Deborah Wood finds herself embroiled in office politics of the most dangerous kind. "Murder a la Mode" was first published in 1941, as a Red Badge $1000 Prize Detective Novel. See more classic mystery reprints at CoachwhipBooks.com.

Broadway producer Leo Murray may have been a genius, but he was also ruthless. Now he's dead, and there are plenty of suspects. "Show Business" was published in 1939 as a Red Badge Detective novel. See more classic mystery reprints at CoachwhipBooks.com.

When John Fordman, millionaire oil man, is discovered dead inside his luxury limousine during the shooting of a local gusher, Joan Shields, society page editor, deems the slaying a welcome diversion, as she would much rather investigate ballistics and bloodstains than chronicle the activities of the good ladies of the Laff-a-Lot Bridge Club.