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On the morning of the thirty-first three engineers accompanied by the manager visited the vault of the Consolidated Bank. Shortly after they left, it was discovered that a bag containing $180,000 in cash had disappeared. And so commenced the famous bank vault case in which Maxwell Fenner, the casual, dapper detective, made a list of six suspects and in tracking them through a maze of motives and two murders found a criminal genius. The Bank Vault Mystery is remarkable for the originality and logic of its complex plot. The setting, too, in and about Wall Street, Fulton Street, and the financial district is full of local color. Its finished, careful style makes it particularly enjoyable whether you read many or few detective stories. Brokers' End: It was a clever set up. The Treasurer of the great bond concern of F. W. Strong lay across his elaborate mahogany desk with a bullet hole in his forehead. His revolver was at hand, the ejected shell gleamed from the carpet nearby. Motive? The House of Strong after forty years of business "without loss to any investor" had, a few days previous, been declared insolvent by the Court and there were rumors in the air of "irregularities" in the books. It was a clever set up, but after Maxwell Fenner had looked it over and glanced significantly at Inspector Bryce, the latter expressed the thoughts of both when he remarked, "I smell something fishy-it's too damned neat." And then commenced the pursuit and detection of what was to become a string of the most diabolically ingenious murders in the experience of the dapper, casual, and disconcertingly naive Maxwell Fenner.Additional mysteries available from CoachwhipBooks.com.

Other Life collects thirteen tales of strange and sometimes incomprehensible life forms from alien worlds throughout (and beyond) the universe. Humanity faces the unknown, whether peaceful or deadly, and is rarely the same after. From sentient "trees" and comet-based medusae, to living rocks and unearthly forces, classic science fiction writers have explored the outer limits of their imagination to create a diverse bestiary of non-terrestrial beings. This anthology will entertain anyone who has glanced to the stars and wondered what life could be like far from planet Earth. The stories include are: The Willows by Algernon Blackwood; The Green Splotches by T. S. Stribling; The Thing from-Outside by George Allan England; Spawn of the Comet by Otis A. Kline; The Planetoid of Peril by Paul Ernst; Hunt the Hunter by Kris Neville; Tree, Spare That Woodman by Dave Dryfoos; In the Forest by Leslie Perri; The Anglers of Arz by Roger Dee; Green Thumb by Clifford D. Simak; Tabby by Winston Marks; The Night of Hoggy Darn by R. M. McKenna; The Botticelli Horror by Lloyd Biggle, Jr.

Five issues of Francis, the Famous Talking Mule, selected from the original Dell comics, are collected in this volume.

All four Laramie comic books (based on the western television series) are included here. Slim and Jess fight for their friends and neighbors as they run a stagecoach relay station in Wyoming Territory.

The Dartmouth Murders: The Dartmouth Hall clock strikes a "cold, damp six" as student Ken Harris awakens to the ominous sound of muffled rhythmic raps against a dormitory window. Upon rising and looking out the window, Ken finds to his horror that the eerie noise is coming from the two bare feet of his roommate, Byron Coates, whose rain-slicked, pajama-clad body hangs suspended from a rope fire escape. Initially it is believed that Byron committed suicide, but soon it is established that the moody Dartmouth student was the victim of a foul play. As strange events unfold and yet more unnatural deaths follow, a bewildered Ken finds himself questioning the motives of everyone around him. Even his officious attorney and author father, on hand and helping the floundering police with their investigation, comes under suspicion. When will this nightmare rampage of murders at Dartmouth end?The Wailing Rock Murders: Perched above the rocky coast near Ogunquit Beach, Maine, are two identical mansions, Victorian monstrosities with cupolas like travesties of crowns, "fashioned of rusty iron and set with blind isinglass." In the cupolas of both houses murder strikes, in most savage fashion. On the hunt for the killer is the brilliant, elderly amateur detective Spaton "Spider" Meech, whose ward, lovely Garda Lawrence, is, to his profound horror, the first of the victims. Over the course of one hagridden evening and morning, Meech confronts the most challenging-and horrendous-case in his celebrated crime-fighting career. Local legend says that when the rock wails death will follow-a claim chillingly borne out repeatedly as a remorseless "Spider" strives to ensnare a murderer in his web of detection.

The boisterous, fun-loving pranksters fill this comic collection, selected from early comic books (including both versions, the Katzenjammer Kids and The Captain and the Kids).

The early Homer Evans mysteries were light-hearted frolics with crazy antics and cartoonish characters. One reviewer noted that The Mysterious Mickey Finn "has the delirious irresponsibility of a Wodehouse plot" (Charles Poore, New York Times), and another stated, "I astonished and delighted myself by reading it. . . . [it] is like no mystery story I know. It may not please the orthodox mystery fans; it is, in its way a satire on orthodox mysteries. . . . I have seldom read a book which gave me so intensely the impression that the author had a grand good time writing it. The hilarity is infectious" (Lewis Gannett, New York Herald Tribune). After World War Two, author Elliot Paul continued writing the series, but there is a distinct change of tone. The humor (and satire) is still there, but the cartoonish frivolity has been replaced with a more serious attempt at creating a mystery for readers to enjoy. Readers of the earlier novels will welcome the return of many characters from earlier books, of course. This volume includes the novella, I'll Hate Myself in the Morning, along with the full-length mystery, Murder on the Left Bank. I'll Hate Myself in the Morning is a transitional piece, bridging the pre- and post-War writings. The amateur and reluctant detective, Homer Evans, is more pensive than usual, but finds himself investigating the murder of an innocuous little man who only wanted a friend. The fiendish murder takes place on a train traveling through the West, but sorting out the suspects becomes more difficult when they don't all stay put. Murder on the Left Bank finds Homer back in post-War Paris, where he helps an American family investigate the death of a soldier friend of their son, who died in the War, along with the mysterious circumstances of a strange oral declaration before the son died. Author Elliot Paul recognized the problematic nature of the "super-detective" he created in Homer Evans, but brilliantly sends up his own character by giving us a second detective, the Boston-Irish Finke Maguire, for whom nothing is easy, but proving an able partner for the cerebral and sophisticated Evans. Syndicated reviewer Dorothy Hughes noted of Murder on the Left Bank: "frolic and crime among Americans in Paris with Paul again proving that the intellectual and the zany can mate as happily today as in Sterne's time." (J.P.H. of This & That was less impressed: "If there are screwier whodunits than Elliot Paul periodically turns out, our eyes never have encountered them. And he keeps turning them out. The latest, Murder on the Left Bank, is just as nerve-wracking as its predecessors.") But, those who enjoyed the early Homer Evans mysteries should find the later mysteries just as fun and more detailed in their puzzle creation.

"'The Black Gardenia' is quite a book. Elliot Paul undoubtedly had a wonderful time writing it, and in addition to the usual mystery has made it a vehicle for a lot of good English and a lot of interesting information about mysterious Javanese plants, customs, and poisons. "And, we might as well say right now, you as a reader will be [thoroughly] mixed up as to who dunit until very near the last page. "Suffice it to say that three persons die of very perplexing causes before the suave Homer Evans, detective extraordinary, and his partner, Finke Maguire, are able to bring the murderer to justice. In the meantime, you mix into a lot of Hollywood life, including the Brown Derby, Mike Romanoff, famous chefs and bartenders and assorted movie moguls, millionaires and morons. "The story revolves around the ambition of the Black Gardenia, a beautiful Mexican swimmer, to become a movie star. This ambition innocently sets off a train of intrigue which results in the killings and many times as much suspicion of one and another. "Elliot Paul's latest adventure of Homer Evans may not be so famous as his 'Murder on the Left Bank, ' but it is high above the average mystery and it is a pleasure to read it." (Syracuse, NY, Post Standard, 1952)

Homer Evans is back. You remember Homer. The ever-calm, William Powell-ish sleuth of "The Mysterious Mickey Finn," and "Hugger Mugger in the Louvre" Homer and his incomparable girl friend, Miriam, the gun-totin', sharp-shooting gal from Montana. You'll find them at work and play again in Elliot Paul's Mayhem in B-Flat which has to do with the theft of a priceless Guarnerius violin, a huge dog, rival gangs, murders, tarantulas, dancing girls and loving ladies. Elliot Paul gives you plenty of laughs-and a bumper crop of homicide in this story that takes you from concert hall to cabaret to brothel, at racehorse speed. Even Homer has a hard time keeping up. Author Paul is a sly one. His quips are as fast as Miriam's lightning draw; his innuendos as innocent as a strip-teaser. If you're looking for deep-dyed detective problems, "Mayhem in B-Flat" is not for you. But if you want a hilarious evening, spend it with Homer, Miriam and the gang. You won't regret it. (Literary Guidepost, 1940)

The fourth in the series of Homer Evans mystery adventures takes the reader for the ride of his life all the way from Paris to the badlands of Montana. In the wide open spaces where the last survivors of be Blackfeet and Shoshone Indians still keep their tribal ways in the lower stretches of the Yellowstone, where sheepherders and cattlemen fight to the death on the lone prairie, where behind every clump of sagebrush a dead-eye marksman lurks, there go all the veterans of the bloody campaigns in The Mysterious Mickey Finn, Hugger-Mugger in the Louvre and Mayhem in B-Flat. Guided by Rain-No-More, the Blackfeet son of a chief, directed by the ever-resourceful Homer Evans and trigger-quick Miriam Leonard, and supported by Hugo Weiss the financier, Hjalmar Jansen, the scourge of the studios, Frémont of the Paris police, Anton Diluvio the virtuoso, and all the tried and true shock troops of the previous books, they travel by ship and special train to the frontier battleground. They arrive just in time to participate in the first skirmishes between the cattlemen's forces and the sheepherders' mercenaries recruited among the Great Lakes palefaces, all of them trained braves who had had their baptism of tommy-gun fire in Chicago's gangland wars. The casualties among cowboys, Indians, trigger men, sheep and cattle are appalling. But Homer Evans, by a stroke of tactical genius, turns defeat into victory and forever puts an end to lawlessness in the badlands.

When a famous art-loving millionaire disappeared from a Bohemian party in the artist quarters of Montparnasse, a number of colorful Parisians began to devote themselves to suspicious actions of one kind or another. Homer Evans, irresponsible playboy artist and Bohemian, combines his talents for quick thinking and kiss-stealing in a wild chase for the murderers through the streets of Paris. Following hot behind is Miriam Leonard, a belle from Montana whose shapely hand is quite as effective with the revolver as with a loving caress! And then there is Hjalmar Jansen, strapping Norwegian artist friend of Homer's, ever ready to gird his loins for any kind of lusty brawl so long as there are women and wine in plenty. Bloodletting and love-making are liberally combined with infectious humor in an altogether irresponsible manner, and readers of The Mysterious Mickey Finn will find in these pages a witty story sprinkled in the classical manner with the proper number of bodies, some beautifully alive and kicking. ". . . I astonished and delighted myself by reading it. . . . The Mysterious Mickey Finn is like no mystery story I know. It may not please the orthodox mystery fans; it is, in its way a satire on orthodox mysteries. . . . I have seldom read a book which gave me so intensely the impression that the author had a grand good time writing it. The hilarity is infectious."-Lewis Gannett, New York Herald Tribune "Read it for the witty, sophisticated, tongue-in-the-cheek fluency of Mr. Paul, for the wicked innuendos, for the fiction-coated satirical barbs at men, morals and artists. It's grand."-Hartford Times

Homer Evans has a wacky group of friends who lead you all over Paris, up and down the Seine, through cafés filled with celebrities, taxidermist shops, subway stations, the musty dens of Egyptologists and the wards of a fantastic madhouse. There is violence aplenty and corpses are in the most unexpected places. The New York Herald Tribune Books says, "This, as you might guess, is the funniest mystery on tap-that is, the funniest by far, for all other comic thrillers seem pale and wan beside Mr. Paul's robustious works." You can't fail to get plenty of gusty guffaws and spine-tickling chills as you join lovely Miriam Leonard, hard-drinking Norwegian-American painter Hjalmar Jansen, former member of the Tsar's army Lvov Kvek, Chief of Detectives Frémont of the Paris Police, and the medical examiner, Dr. Hyacinthe Toudoux, to help Homer Evans solve this mystery that starts with the theft of a famous Watteau painting from the Louvre. "Fantastically amusing and thrilling . . . completely cockeyed and hugely entertaining." Jack Ketch, New York Herald Tribune

Mrs. Searwood, a widow in wartime London, is certain that Hitler has a personal grudge against her, but her life takes a decidedly stranger twist when she finds companionship in a spirit, Chief White Feather, who has been passing the last 300 years educating himself at Britain's institutions of higher learning. Moving to a small village to get away from the bombs, Mrs. Searwood finds more adventure, and romance, than she would have ever guessed. Mrs. Searwood's Secret Weapon was first published in 1954.

Sunday newspaper comic panels for 'The Good Old Days'.

This compilation of early recipe collections brings together two published booklets and one academic paper with recipes from traditional and recent American Indian kitchens. These include submissions from Choctaw, Chickasaw, Osage, Navaho, Sioux, and other cooks. Included are Authenticated American Indian Recipes (1955) by Sylvester and Alice Tinker, Oklahoma Indian Cook Book (1956) by Mae Abbott, and "Navajo foods and cooking methods," (American Anthropologist, 1940) by Flora L. Bailey.

Black Powder Snapshots is an illustrated history of the use of black powder firearms in American history. Herbert Arment Sherlock (1899-1983) illustrates the use of black powder rifles and pistols with exciting vignettes of colonial, western, and military scenes. Sherlock was a modern user of black powder firearms and an authority on their use in the early days of America. As an artist, he highlights the subject in such a delightful manner as to inform and inspire anyone with an interest in this historical period. Black Powder Snapshots was first published in 1946.

Western artist Lea McCarty's art shines in The Gunfighters, as he illustrates biographical sketches of twenty gun-slinging characters from the Old West with full-color portraits that capture each one perfectly. Readers will be familiar with Wild Bill Hickock, Wyatt Earp, and Jesse James, but will also find lesser-known gunfighters like John Ringo and King Fisher. Marshals, deputies, and outlaws, they are a part of American history that still resonates today. The Gunfighters was first published in 1959.

Knife throwing (chief of the impalement arts) is a popular exhibition at carnivals, western shows, and sideshows. The two classic booklets reprinted here cover knife styles, grip and throwing techniques, and a variety of trick throws sure to amaze an audience. How to Throw Knives, by Elmer Putts, was published in 1935, and The Art of Knife Throwing, by Frank Dean, was first published in 1937. Many knife stunts are dangerous. This collection is sold solely for entertainment purposes only.

Comic strip of a hard-working office boy, Smitty.

The Brownies were first created by Canadian artist Palmer Cox (1840-1924). The Dell comics version was drawn by several different artists. The earliest comics were similar to Cox's style, while later comics were influenced by the iteration drawn by Walt Kelly (of Pogo fame), which were lush in detail. This collection includes four of the Dell Four Color comics featuring the Brownies. (The Four Color imprint included a variety of characters, and allowed Dell to try out some titles before giving them their own series.) The issues included are Nos. 192 (1948), 337 (1951), 365 (1951), and 482 (1953).

Bat Masterson, gambler and western legend, featured in these comic books, based on the western television series.

This comic book version of Sherlock Holmes was published in two Dell Four Color comic books, both collected here.

A Pennsylvania German community is unnerved by attacks on livestock and sightings of a white wolf. But tragedy soon follows and residents are up in arms. Gentleman farmer Pierre de Camp-d'Avesnes is concerned about his beautiful daughter, Sara, who seems to be losing her personality to an animal nature. A family curse collides with Pierre's comfortable life, and he finds himself in a harrowing fight for Sara's very soul. Franklin Long Gregory (1905-1980) was a reporter and columnist for the Newark (NJ) Star-Ledger for 25 years. The White Wolf was published in 1941.

First published in 1951, Cherokee Cooklore introduces us to traditional Cherokee cooking. It starts with a photographic essay as Aggie Lossiah demonstrates how she makes bean bread. This is followed by recipes gathered from the North Carolina Cherokee community (including yellowjacket soup, blood pudding, hominy corn drink, baked squirrel, and hickory nut soup). A description of Cherokee food customs follows. This is a fascinating booklet that provides valuable food lore for the adventuresome gourmet or the student of Native American history.

Two fast-moving novels by a prolific pulp writer.

Nineteen tales of flowering enigmas and leafy terrors are presented in Coachwhip Publications' third volume of cryptobotanical short stories from classic science fiction and fantasy. Man-eating trees, poisonous orchids, killer cacti, and lycanthrope-inducing blossoms are among the mysterious vegetation we meet in these tales, as the botanical kingdom shows its teeth. Stories include The Giant Wistaria (1891), Kasper Craig (1892), The Gold Plant (1895), The Story of the Grey House (1898), The Flower of Death (1916), The Lure of the Lavender Trees (1917), The Warlock of Glororum (1919), An Orchid of Asia: a Tale of the South Seas (1920), "Glued" (1921), The Tree (1921), Through the Crater's Rim (1926), The Blood-Flower (1927), The Devils of Po Sung (1927), White Orchids (1927), Vine Terror (1934), The Devil Flower (1939), The Garden of Hell (1943), and Cactus (1950).

Sam Ward was yearning for adventure when a Cherokee man arrived from a distant village with a tale of a monstrous hairy creature threatening his land. The formerly peaceful beast went rogue upon the death of its mate, and the chief of the Twilight People sent Otter to ask for help. Sam's quest quickly turns dangerous with new challenges and new enemies, but using their wits, skills, and courage, Sam and Otter finally face Giluhda, last of the living mammoths.

Susan Yates, distinguished and charming New York fashion designer, was one of the few people on a transatlantic liner who knew that a fabulous figure of New York's glamour trade lay dead behind the closed door of a stateroom. Susan was one of the stream of Americans returning to New York from Europe's war scare, and when Lyle Curtis, assistant district attorney, met her at quarantine, she was very glad that freedom of the port was one of the benefits of his friendship. A tremendous news story about the death of a prominent figure, an unsolved case that reflected no credit on the district attorney's office, and a heterogeneous group of shipboard companions who kept up the appearance of friendship for many months, combined to keep Lyle and Susan alternately co-operating and diverging in what turned out to be the biggest case Lyle had yet handled. Written with a brightness that insures amusement, Murder on the Face of It presents a plot that will not easily be solved by even the cleverest murder-mystery addicts. Murder on the Face of It was first published in 1940. This edition includes an introduction by Curtis Evans.

The history of badminton can be traced to India to England (where Badminton was the country seat of the Duke of Beaufort). Though introduced to New York in 1878, the game gained greater enthusiastic support following World War I, as American and Canadian soldiers who learned the game in England continued to play and taught the game to others. It can be easily (and inexpensively) set up and can be played by all ages. In this book, Jackson and Swan provide details (well illustrated) on proper grip and strokes, serving stance, directing the bird in flight, rules of the game and court layout, and general game strategy. This is an excellent introduction to the game and should provide the badminton enthusiast with plenty of insight into bettering their game play. This is a reprint of the 1939 edition.