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The Green Toad By Walter S. Masterman
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Hardback. It was not a good day for Inspector Jackson. He spotted an illegally parked car and when he told the driver to move on, the man's head fell off! Then he identified the car and the body as... More > belonging to George Barran, wealthy landowner, and with fingerprint evidence proved that the body somehow murdered itself. But he was really surprised when George Barran, alive and angry, showed up at the police station later that afternoon complaining about being bothered by the police. And the Inspector hasn't even been to the Barran estate yet, where he will find a huge green toad.< Less
The Green Toad TPB By Walter S. Masterman
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Trade paperback. It was not a good day for Inspector Jackson. He spotted an illegally parked car and when he told the driver to move on, the man's head fell off! Then he identified the car and the... More > body as belonging to George Barran, wealthy landowner, and with fingerprint evidence proved that the body somehow murdered itself. But he was really surprised when George Barran, alive and angry, showed up at the police station later that afternoon complaining about being bothered by the police. And the Inspector hasn't even been to the Barran estate yet, where he will find a huge green toad.< Less
The Box from Japan Tpb By Harry Stephen Keeler
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This 548-page juggernaut of a mystery was written in 1932 and takes place in a future of 1942 when the US was at war with Japan and Germany. 'The longest mystery ever written.'
Sacred Locomotive Flies By Richard A. Lupoff
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Hardcover. In 1969 Richard A. Lupoff wrote one of the first psychedelic novels and now it's time for young people to put down their phones and read about how Grandad raged against the machine, even... More > before there was a machine. This new edition has the same introduction by Paul di Filippo and middle-aged Dick Lupoff -- PLUS a new introduction by Ol' Man Lupoff. It's amazing what 50 years will do for a revolution.< Less
Finger! Finger! : Hallowe'en Nights By Harry Stephen Keeler
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This huge 1933 mystery takes place on a Halloween night and concerns disappearing overcoats and missing fingers.
Behind that Mask: Hallowe'en Nights By Harry Stephen Keeler
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In 1932 Harry Stephen Keeler came out with a huge novel which was split into two books. This is the ending book that wraps the whole case up. HSK 1932
The Flying Beast By Walter S. Masterman
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Walter S. Masterman, known for his oddball horror/mystery novels about demonic toads and toxic mistletoe, wrote 16 novels between 1926 and 1938. Once you enter his universe of ordinary citizens... More > aiding exceptional detectives you'll wonder why.< Less
Sealed Room Murder By Rupert Penny
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When we think of "locked room mysteries" we think of John Dickson Carr and his imitators, but back in 1941 Britain's Rupert Penny penned one of the best and most satisfying impossible... More > crimes ever crafted-SEALED ROOM MURDER. Fans of the Policeman mysteries of Rupert Penny will find this classic whodunit every bit as puzzling the others. With diagrams, charts, maps and even a Dutton-like challenge to the reader page, this is a mystery you can't pass up, published for the first time since its debut.< Less
Two Locked-Room Mysteries and a Ripping Yarn By Max Afford
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This collection presents three short stories by Max Afford. Two tales feature sleuth Jeffery Blackburn, his wife Elizabeth, and Inspector William Read: 'Poison Can Be Puzzling' and 'The Vanishing... More > Trick' were originally published in Australian periodicals in the 1940s, and appear to be the only published short crime fiction tales by Afford. 'The Gland Men Of The Island' appears to be Afford's sole foray into science-fiction; the story first appeared in WONDER STORIES in 1931.< Less
The Matilda Hunter Murder By Harry Stephen Keeler
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Harry Stephen Keeler wrote this huge novel in 1931 and it is probably the first novel to ever address the horror of a small tactical nuclear weapon being hidden in a suitcase.