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Here is another thrilling novel related by that ingenious mystery writer Harry Stephen Keeler in collaboration with his wife Hazel Goodwin. The story fairly bristles with excitement and suspense throughout. Why did the murderer of Nels Pederson amputate his legs and sew them back with silver wire, transposed? How was a book on cats the key to an escape from prison? Why was a literary manuscript sent to Rudolph Uberhulf, a convict who could sca...

Jimmie Kentland, reporter on the "Chicago Sun", was not too happy even though he saw "subbing" for the Night City Editor. Things hadn't been breaking right. Suddenly his eye lighted on an illiterate note lying on the desk. He read it, then dashed out--"Number 1700, Crilly Court", he shouted to the taxi driver, "and step on it." Thud--the taxi stopped suddenly. Kentland knew by the sound and feel that a human body had been hit. In the street la...

My guiltiest pleasure is Harry Stephen Keeler. He may been the greatest bad writer America has ever produced. Or perhaps the worst great writer. I do not know. There are few faults you can accuse him of that he is not guilty of. But I love him." -- Neil GaimanFrom 1935 comes this thrilling novel about five odd people who happen to buy tiny jade figurines of a non-smiling Buddha. Only Harry Stephen Keeler could have come up with this plot!

My guiltiest pleasure is Harry Stephen Keeler. He may been the greatest bad writer America has ever produced. Or perhaps the worst great writer. I do not know. There are few faults you can accuse him of that he is not guilty of. But I love him." -- Neil Gaiman It all started with a murder 20 years earlier. A ragpicker was found in a closet, stabbed in the back with a jewelled dagger-through an ace of spades! There's a reward for the solution t...

When the Cedarville bank is robbed of a gold shipment, Sheriff Bucyrus Duckhouse of Willis Creek was just where he wants to be -- waiting at the end of the Smoky Ridge Tunnel where any minute the robbers have just got to emerge.But meanwhile, carny Jim Craney has a truckful of trouble as he scrambles to catch up with the rest of his circus. A truck full of lioness and five newborn kittens! The only way he can make it in time to marry the circu...

This classic 1938 mystery could only have come from the fevered imagination of Harry Stephen Keeler! "Behind That Mask" is a direct sequel to his 1932 novel, Finger! Finger! - and although it concludes successfully the story begun in volume one, readers should definitely have read Finger! Finger! first, before reading this one. You have been warned!

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I knew full well, when the Chinaman stopped me in the street that night and coolly asked me for a light for his cigarette, that a light for his cigarette was the last thing in the world that he really wanted! I knew, in short, that he was up to something!" So begins one of the most convoluted web­work mysteries ever devised by the arcane mind of Harry Stephen Keeler. Many Keeler stories have a skull in them but in this one the skull has a star...

Three men in Sing Sing -- all writers -- awaiting execution for the same crime. The body of the victim held only two bullets -- one of the men is innocent. How can they find out before morning which one of them should get the Governor's pardon? "Sing Sing Nights" is a startling example or Harry Stephen Keeler's uncanny power to unravel the most involved plots, and during the unravelling depen the mystery until the very end of the story.

Boyce Barkstone hat ein Problem: Durch eine unglückliche Verkettung von Umständen wirft er seinem Onkel Balhatchet eine Beleidigung an den Kopf, die jemand anderem galt. Der gekränkte alte Mann streicht Boyce augenblicklich aus seinem Testament. und stirbt sogleich. Statt der erwarteten 100 000 Dollar erbt der unglückliche Boyce nun nur ein Säckchen mit 16 unterschiedlichen Bohnen darin, sowie höchst kryptische Anweisungen über deren Verwendun...

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