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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. The Mystery of the Four Fingers. The Mystery of the Ravenspurs: The Slave of Silence.
The Shadow of the Dead Hand. The Edge of the Sword.
The House of Mammon. A Queen of the Stage. By Order of the League. The Weight of the Crown.
The Secret of the Sands. The Mystery of Room The Salt Of The Earth. A Crime on Canvas. The Ends Of Justice. The Romance of the Secret Service Fund. How to write a great review.
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You can remove the unavailable item s now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout. Really want to get the audio versions -- sound just like Old Time Radio. Hubbard's writing during the Golden Age of Fiction, this story is filled with action and imagery that does not disappoint. He had an incredible way of immersing you in the story and moving high speed throughout.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. The hero, Navy Lt. Hubbard treads the same ground as many other authors do with his tale of a man on the run. Man the Guns, My Mate. I've read everything he wrote four or five times. His fiance is distraught but stands beside her man yay!
You really get a feel for the culture and environment in China back when this story was written. Good vs evil with lots of twists. Great fun and a great read! First, I love having this book on the Kindle app on my phone. I could read it anywhere, which I did whenever I was waiting for something.
Brass Keys to Murder is as authentic as it gets, even with an almost unbelievable plot.
It took me out of "normal" life into universe of danger and intrigue well narrated by the author. Classic tale of true pulp fiction. Unfortunately, there is only one full story, and the start of another. Then follows the adv. To purchase the rest of the story, and a monthly fee to receive more. Enjoy a vintage tale. A nice quick mystery that gets solved by the end of the book. Hubbard's stories are always a pleasure to me.
Register a shipping account. I loved it because he was the first modern writer to nail Florida dead-center, to capture all its languid sleaze, racy sense of promise, and breath-grabbing beauty. MacDonald would be a treasure on the order of the tomb of Tutankhamen.
Stephen King stated in the book Faces of Fear: MacDonald has written a novel called The End of the Night which I would argue is one of the greatest American novels of the twentieth century.
The science fiction writer Spider Robinson has made it clear that he is also among MacDonald's admirers. In a sequel to the Callahan's series, Callahan's Key , a group of regulars from the former saloon decide they've had enough of Long Island , so they relocate to Key West, Florida , in a colorful caravan of modified school buses.
The slip is empty, with a small plaque mentioning The Busted Flush. The popular mystery writer Dean Koontz has also acknowledged in an interview with Bookreporter. I've read everything he wrote four or five times. Before there were Lee Child and Carl Hiaasen , there was MacDonald — as prescient and verbally precise as anyone writing today can possibly hope to be.
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Editorial Reviews. Review. “ one of the great pulp writers, with colorful prose, lively action Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Brass Keys to Murder (Mystery & Suspense Short Stories Collection). U.S. Navy Lieutenant Steve Craig is in one hell of a mess. Being accused of murder is bad enough, but the local police are convinced he's killed his own father.
December Learn how and when to remove this template message. The Red Hot Typewriter: The Life and Times of John D. With essay by Glen David Gold from the Awards year anniversary blog.