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This volume assembles one novel and twenty-two short stories by American writer Richard M. Elam (1920-2013). Dick Elam was born in Richmond, Virginia, served for four years in the Army Air Force in World War II, and after the war became involved with the silk printing industry. On the side, he write articles, short stories, and books for young readers. He was one of the very few science fiction writers active in Young Adult fiction in the 1950s and early 1960s, and his books and short story collections served to introduce many young readers to the wonders of science and space.<P> YOUNG STOWAWAYS IN SPACE<BR> THE FIRST MAN INTO SPACE<BR> MYSTERY EYES OVER EARTH<BR> RACE AROUND THE SUN<BR> FLIGHT OF THE CENTAURUS<BR> EXPEDITION PLUTO<BR> MERCY FLIGHT TO LUNA<BR> THE PERIL FROM OUTER SPACE<BR> THE GHOST SHIP OF SPACE<BR> SPACE STEWARD<BR> BETH AND THE TWILIGHT STAR<BR> GIB TAKES A SPACE TEST<BR> THE SPACE MAIL RUN<BR> ALL ABOARD FOR SPACE<BR> WHEEL IN THE SKY<BR> DANGER ON THE ICE CANAL<BR> CARGO FOR CALLISTO<BR> THE BIG SHOW ON TITAN<BR> ADVENTURE ON THE SUN’S DOORSTEP<BR> THE FLYING MOUNTAIN<BR> CASTAWAYS IN SPACE<BR> THE BIG SPACE BALL GAME<BR> PAPER TREASURE FOR MARS<P> If you enjoy this ebook, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for «Wildside Press Megapack» to see more of the 300+ volumes in this series, covering adventure, historical fiction, mysteries, westerns, ghost stories, science fiction – and much, much more!

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Take a nice guy with healthy instincts…put a dead man's eyes in his head…and you have the recipe for a nightmare!<P> Zachary Anders meant no harm. He was a blinded veteran who had been willed the eyes of an executed murderer. But with Zachary's regained sight came an obsession – he had the clear the name of the dead man who had allowed him to see again.<P> When Zachary began to look around, trouble started. He saw a foul nest of assault, kidnapping, blackmail, and murder. And when he began to act, he was plunged into a screaming spiral of madness that almost cost him his sanity – and his life!

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Fletcher Flora (1914-1968) wrote or co-wrote sixteen novels under his own name plus ghost-wrote three as Ellery Queen. He penned many short stories for a variety of mystery magazines and anthologies in the 1950s and 1960s. This volume includes:<P> I’ll Kill for You<br> I’ll Race You<br> In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree

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Welcome to the third volume of The Black Cat Mystery Community’s THRILLOGY series, celebrating classic mystery short stories. Included this time are three classic tales by James Holding: «Career Man,» «The Tahitian Powder Box Mystery,» and «A Deal in Rubies.»

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The Suicide Hour. Four A.M., when resistance is lowest. For one particular young woman, the hour has a special meaning…and she often wakes a night, terrified…and unsure exactly why. <P>The puzzle unravels slowly. What happened to her father? Did he really abandon his wife and children, as everyone thinks? Or did something more sinister occur? Her mother and brother can offer little help or information. Mr. White, her father's business partner, has sold his share of the business and moved away. And why is she so terrified of cellars?

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From the Edgar Award-winning author of They Buried a Man comes a novel of strangling horror! <P> "As a thriller or serious novel, powerful and rewarding." – Anthony Boucher, New York Times<P> Mildred B. Davis is an American novelist whose books generally fall into the suspense/mystery genre. Katherine (Davis) Roome, her daughter, and a published author herself, helped Mildred break a 30-year publishing silence by working with her to turn some previously unpublished manuscripts into the Murder in Maine series.

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This volume collects both of Sasscer Hill's Janet Simpson stories, featuring the amateur detective in the world of horse racing: PRETTY FRAUDULENT and VENEMOUS. Both stories appeared previously in separate volumes of the Chesapeake Crimes anthology series. <P> “If you miss the late Dick Francis’s racetrack thrillers, you’ll be intrigued by Sasscer Hill’s Racing From Death.” —The Washington Post, August 29, 2012

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Thomas Thursday (1894–1974) was a lesser-known pulp writer who ended up having one of the longest careers writing for the pulp magazines. His first published short story, “A Stroke of Genius,” appeared in Top-Notch (April 1, 1918 issue). He submitted the story to them after finding an old issue in the subway.<P> He used the penname “Thursday” after glancing at a calendar. His real name remains a mystery. He was still appearing in the pulps in the late 1950s, after which the magazine format all but disappeared from the newsstands.<P> Thursday was primarily a humorist, one of the few in the pulps. He appeared regularly in Top-Notch through the mid-20s, then transitioned to Argosy. Many of his story titles featured wordplay, e.g. “Illiterature” (People’s Favorite Magazine, April 10, 1919), “Young Mild West” (Argosy All-Story Weekly, February 28, 1925), or “Of Lice and Men” (The Phantom Detective, September 1940). Many of his stories centered on circuses and sideshows. <P>Thursday had worked for numerous circuses in his youth. Swindles and scams were a frequent theme.<P> This volume includes 3 classic stories:<P> “Dead Men Don’t Move”<P> “License for Theft”<P> “Attention to Trifles”<P>

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9 great reads for a lonely night of thrills and chills! <P> In Sydney J. Bounds's «The Book Miser» has detective Josephine «Jo» Royal trying to thwart an unscrupulous book collector who's taken advantage of an innocent seller. In «The Purple Glove Murders,» by Mary Wickizer Burgess, attorney Gail Brevard is asked to solve a killing that appears to be linked to another murder from decades earlier. <P> In Victor Cilinca's «Eggs,» a multi-millionaire pasta company executive becomes the target of a scam. In «The Case of the Telbury Halt Ghost,» by Ernest Dudley, well-known detective Doctor Morelle must unravel the mystery behind the apparent haunting of a rural railway station. «The Adventure of the Forgotten Umbrella,» by Mel Gilden, is one of those tales of Sherlock Holmes mentioned—but never actually related—by Doctor Watson. <P>Michael Hemmingson tells the story of an unfortunate young man on the make who's quite simply overwhelmed by his three «Vivacious Vixens!» Francis Jarman demonstrates, «In the Light of What Happened,» that poking around in old Indian temples can have unforeseen consequences! James B. Johnson's «Flankspeed» is one of the most unusual mysteries ever encountered by this editor—and also one of the best. Arlette Lees, a rising star of the noir mystery magazine scene, contributes «Blood Bayou,» one of those backwater places that you probably want to avoid on your next little escape from the law.

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"When Pyro made his planned escape from the penitentiary, his former criminal associates were waiting for him with a getaway car. The gang had been promised a share of the vast fortune Pyro had hidden away before the law had caught up with him. But instead of taking them straight to his buried cache, Pyro ordered a detour to the small town of Onnaville, where he blackmailed a plastic surgeon into giving him a new face. <P> The Doctor too had been promised a share of the loot, but instead he was murdered by Pyro, who then ran out on his gang—safe in the knowledge that they had never seen his new face. But nemesis was at hand…"

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