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The Amazing Web

By: Harry Stephen Keeler

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How the Trigger-Finger of a Man Long Dead Sent Another Man To His Death In this gigantic mystery story, Mr. Keeler has employed atavism in his plot, a thing that has probably never before been attempted in mystery fiction. Starting in pirate days with the bitter enmity between Captain Kidd and Captain Quarlbush whom Kidd marooned on a desert island for mutiny and thus deprived of a share in the spoils, Mr. Keeler conjures up in modern times a descendant of each of them and shows how in a mysterious way Quarlbush was finally avenged. Standing one day before a strange beautiful Chinese cabinet, in which he was seeking some priceless papers, Kidd's descendant falls dead. With many dramatic suspenses, Mr. Keeler tells the story of how Captain Quarlbush, bent upon revenge, secretly built the beautiful Chinese cabinet, which he plotted to fall into Kidd's hands. This is the basis of the primary plot to which are interlaced many other plots in this incomparable book.

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Simon and Schuster

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1440543232

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9781440543234

The Fourth King

By: Harry Stephen Keeler

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The Fourth King

By: Harry Stephen Keeler

“The Thirteen Kings of Crooked Chicago Finance!” That’s what the terrorist calling himself THE STAR OF THE NIGHT called the thirteen richest moguls of Chicago when he sent them threatening letters which included decks of cards missing certain kings. Now it’s up to technical draftsman Jason Folwell to solve a most perplexing mystery, and only Harry Stephen Keeler could have imagined the webwork machinations behind this most unusual tale involving the machinations of big business and the heartless men who rule the game.

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341

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Simon and Schuster

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1440544212

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9781440544217

Strands of the Web

The Short Stories of Harry Stephen Keeler

By: Harry Stephen Keeler

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Strands of the Web

The Short Stories of Harry Stephen Keeler

By: Harry Stephen Keeler

A collection of just about all of the existing short stories written by Harry Stephen Keeler back in the early 20th century. Edited by Fred Cleaver, the 22 short stories are followed by a complete bibliography of Keeler's short fiction.

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274

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Lulu.com

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1605431982

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9781605431987

The First Mystery Novel MEGAPACK ®: 4 Great Mystery Novels

By: Howard Mason,Marco Page,Harry Stephen Keeler,Elisabeth Sanxay Holding

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The First Mystery Novel MEGAPACK ®: 4 Great Mystery Novels

By: Howard Mason,Marco Page,Harry Stephen Keeler,Elisabeth Sanxay Holding

The First Mystery Novel MEGAPACKTM presents four classic mysteries by top crime writers. Here are: The Red Bishop, by Howard Mason ... A wild chase through Europe...a castle on the Rhine...some very fancy corpses...a racing columnist who suddenly finds himself a Peer of the Realm... These are the unlikely ingredients that make this book at once hair-raising and light-hearted! Reclining Figure, by Marco Page ... Lucas Edgerton, arbitary and capricious eccentric, brings in Ellis Blaise, a young New York art dealer, to sell some of his art collection for tax purposes. Thefts from the collection, the sensational forgery of a priceless Renoir, and the puzzling murder of Lucas's son force Blaise into a perilous investigation! The Case of the 16 Beans, by Harry Stephen Keeler ... Why did old Balhatchet Barkstone, on dying, leave his nephew 16 beans? And why did Boyce Barkstone, his heir, hold on to the beans? Why did Hu Fong, a Chinese detective, come to the conclusion that a poverty-stricken hermit was murdered for an article of great value, and what might that article be? These are only a few of the seemingly insoluble riddles which Keeler answers in his own inimitable manner! The Girl Who Had to Die, by By Elisabeth Sanxay Holding ... 19-year-old Jocelyn is convinced she's going to be murdered, and accuses John Killian, a young man she met on a cruise ship, of throwing her overboard. But there are a lot of people who seem to hate Jocelyn...and Killian starts to wonder if he'll be the next victim instead! If you enjoy this ebook, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see more of the 250+ volumes in this series, covering adventure, historical fiction, mysteries, westerns, ghost stories, science fiction -- and much, much more!

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Wildside Press LLC

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1479407291

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9781479407293

The Street of One Thousand Eyes (Hong Lei Chung #2)

By: Harry Stephen Keeler,Hazel Goodwin Keeler

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The Street of One Thousand Eyes (Hong Lei Chung #2)

By: Harry Stephen Keeler,Hazel Goodwin Keeler

Joseph Fairweather languishes in a mental institution because he has a theory about time and space that’s just plain crazy. Across the ocean in an abandoned warehouse by the River Thames, Eadgyth Whitchurch lies bound hand and foot, soon to be thrown into the river by the London branch of the Tong of the Lean Grey Rats That Swarm the World, just because she overheard a phone conversation she shouldn’t have. Meanwhile, back in the States there’s a slab of ancient stone that seems to disappear and reappear according to some laws of nature we know nothing about. What’s going on here?

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1479449164

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9781479449163

Y. Cheung, Business Detective

By: Harry Stephen Keeler

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Y. Cheung, Business Detective

By: Harry Stephen Keeler

Young Y. Cheung is in a pickle! In order to receive a $100,000 inheritance from his grandfather’s estate, he must get his name mentioned in 1000 U.S. newspapers, “in an honorable fashion” before midnight of the day before the estate is settled. On top of that, his family doesn’t consider his one-of-a-kind profession, business detective, “honorable”. How Y. Cheung uses his inscrutable wiles to gain happiness and the inheritance is a tale only Harry Stephen Keeler could spin. "It was definitely loopy and is the second of his novels I have read to deal sympathetically and sensibly with Asians in 1930s while everyone else was demonizing or eroticizing them in genre fiction of that era. This is one of Keeler's forays into the 'locked room' and impossible problem genre, but being Keller it involves an outrageous and nearly unfathomable solution." -- G. F. Norris, Golden Age Detection.

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1479449652

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9781479449651

Report on Vanessa Hewstone

By: Harry Stephen Keeler

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Report on Vanessa Hewstone

By: Harry Stephen Keeler

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 Noah Quindry is worried. An arsonist is striking the towns that his travelling circus visits and it may be one of his employees! On top of that, some madman -- perhaps the arsonist? -- is stealing instances of the letter "U" from signs, billboards, letters, even the tattooed chest of Screamo the Clown. It's one of Harry and Hazel Keeler's wackiest mysteries ever.

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1479425567

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9781479425563

The Man Who Changed His Skin

A Comedy of Race Relations

By: Harry Stephen Keeler

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The Man Who Changed His Skin

A Comedy of Race Relations

By: Harry Stephen Keeler

It’s 1855, and with a war over slavery looming on the horizon, all bachelor Clark Shellcross wants to do is get married. But when his hopes are dashed he succumbs to temptation and takes a weird drug that claims it will change his life. And it does! He wakes up the next morning with black skin! It doesn’t take long for him to realize that 1855 is not a good time to have darkly hued skin, even in the northern city of Boston. The story of his frantic odyssey in search of his former life could only have sprung from the anarchic imagination of Harry Stephen Keeler. NOTE: This book is not politically correct by current standards. It contains language and ideas relevant to the age in which it is set (1855) and was written in the 1930s, a less progressive time. It is dated, but remains a fascinating artifact of its era. Although it deals with race, it is decided anti-racism (which may be why it remained unpublished until discovered among Harry Stephen Keeler’s papers). A note to the sensitive: the language is of its time period and it is not policitally correct by contemporary standards.

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1479450685

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9781479450688

The Wonderful Scheme of Mr. Christopher Thorne

By: Harry Stephen Keeler

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The Wonderful Scheme of Mr. Christopher Thorne

By: Harry Stephen Keeler

When Kwan Yung, Chinese inventor, gets cheated out of $32,000, it sets off a whirlwind set of circumstances that will affect financier Christopher Thorne, his beautiful daughter, Alicia, and his loyal employee, Philip Erskine -- for better or for worse! Throw in a brain-teaser and you’ve got the makings for one of the most complex webwork mysteries to escape the mind of Harry Stephen Keeler. You also get a third solution to the Marceau Case, which has baffled Scotland Yard. The action ranges from Chicago to New York to New Orleans in this classic work by Chicago’s own Harry Stephen Keeler.

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1479449784

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9781479449781

Sing Sing Nights

By: Harry Stephen Keeler

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Sing Sing Nights

By: Harry Stephen Keeler

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 is to sign the pardon blank? Sing Sing Nights is a startling example of Mr. Keeler's uncanny power to unravel the most involved plots and during the unraveling deepen the mystery until the very end of the story.

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335

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Simon and Schuster

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1440543240

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9781440543241

X. Jones—Of Scotland Yard

By: Harry Stephen Keeler

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X. Jones—Of Scotland Yard

By: Harry Stephen Keeler

One of Keeler's best, this is the second half of the notorious Marceau case, where a strangler baby dangling from an autogyro may have done the deed. Written in 1935 at the peak of Keeler's powers. Xenius Jones, Chief Inspector of Scotland Yard, gave the exact date he would reveal the details of the infamous André Marceau murder. Then Alec Snide, an American reporter, broke the case before he did! But Jones insists that Snide is 100% wrong—and he’s got the 4-dimensional proof of it! In the second “dossier novel” of this remarkable murder case, Harry Stephen Keeler once again proves that no one could handle a complicated plot as he could. Note for the culturally sensitive: Most of Harry Stephen Keeler's works are not politically correct by contemporary standards. Please keep in mind the time in which it was written as you read it.

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1479437182

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Book's by Harry Stephen Keeler

The Amazing Web

The Amazing Web

The Fourth King

The Fourth King

Strands of the Web

Strands of the Web

The First Mystery Novel MEGAPACK ®: 4 Great Mystery Novels

The First Mystery Novel MEGAPACK ®: 4 Great Mystery Novels

The Street of One Thousand Eyes (Hong Lei Chung #2)

The Street of One Thousand Eyes (Hong Lei Chung #2)

Y. Cheung, Business Detective

Y. Cheung, Business Detective

Report on Vanessa Hewstone

Report on Vanessa Hewstone

The Man Who Changed His Skin

The Man Who Changed His Skin

The Wonderful Scheme of Mr. Christopher Thorne

The Wonderful Scheme of Mr. Christopher Thorne

Sing Sing Nights

Sing Sing Nights

X. Jones—Of Scotland Yard

X. Jones—Of Scotland Yard

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