Looking for classic detective fiction that harks back to the era of Sherlock Holmes? Try Ashton Kirk, Secret Agent, the second in a series by author John T. McIntyre. When a seemingly humdrum family man finds his life turned upside-down by a series of increasingly improbable circumstances, he solicits the help of super-sleuth Ashton Kirk.
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Unveiling the Veil, Breaking the Silence speaks to all. It does not have a name or a color; it does not care if you are rich or poor, male or female. It addresses everyone in every walk of life. It speaks to the heart, mind, and soul to help you reevaluate your life and the life of your loved ones. Domestic violence has no respect of a person and the fact that it has infiltrated our churches says so much to humanity as a whole. Please take this journey with me to break the silence!
Welcome to Black Cat Weekly #58. This issue kicks off our Halloween celebrations with a holiday-inspired tale. An incomplete draft of “Had a Wife...” was found in Janet Fox’s papers following her death, and I completed it. I hope you enjoy it. Keeping up the fantasy theme, we have a powerful tale by Craig Laurance Gidney inspired by the music of Joni Mitchell (selected by our acquiring editor Cynthia Ward). Our other acquiring editors have been busy, too—Michael Bracken presents an original mystery by the talented Kaye George (in which an ancient cave painting holds a clue to a murder), and Barb Goffman presents a tale by Sherry Harris, in which Stew Davis finds himself walking a dusty road in Who Knows Where, Wyoming after his car is stolen.. On the mystery front, we have our ever-puzzle solve-it-yourself story from Hal Charles, plus a pair of historical novels—one by Frank C. Robertson (it’s a mystery-western) and one by John T. McIntyre (set near the turn of the 20th century in New York City).. For our fantasy and science fiction readers, we have the first Darby O’Gill story (most famously filmed by Walt Disney), plus a pair of vintage pulp novellas by Fletcher Pratt and Murray Leinster. Fun stuff!. Here’s the complete lineup:. Mysteries / Suspense / Adventure: “Discovery,” by Kaye George [Michael Bracken Presents short story] “Nothing to Sneeze At,” by Hal Charles [Solve-It-Yourself Mystery] “Last Chance Lost,” by Sherry Harris [Barb Goffman Presents short story] The Boss of the Double E, by Frank C. Robertson [novel] In the Dead of Night, by John T. McIntyre [novel]. Science Fiction & Fantasy: “Maeve’s Quilt” by Craig Laurance Gidney [Cynthia Ward Presents short story] “Had a Wife…” by Janet Fox and John Gregory Betancourt [short story] “Darby O’Gill and the Good People,” by Herminie Templeton Kavanagh [short story] “Potemkin Village,” by Fletcher Pratt [short novel] “The Boomerang Circuit,” by Murray Leinster [short novel]
STEPS GOING DOWN by Philadelphian writer John T. McIntyre is the work of a mature and seasoned talent, instinct with life, rich with experience, yet spectacularly exciting, and most magnificently modern in spirit. It is something more than the product of literary craftsman of the first order: it is a recreation of the very pulse of the life of men and women today. Seldom has so memorable a novel appeared, or one which reveals more powerfully the shape of human living and experience. First published in 1936, John T. McIntyre’s novel was selected as the American Contender in the All-Nations Prize Novel Competition, sponsored by the Literary Guild, Warner Brothers, and publishers in some eleven foreign countries. “In John T. McIntyre’s novel I think we have come upon a fresh note in American fiction, a book that may serve as a reviving influence in a field with which most readers have become impatient. Mr. McIntyre has contrived to represent a new, hard deflated, American mood with superb realism. His book comes to us with sirens screaming, at 80 miles an hour.”—William Soskin “I had read no more than two or three pages of STEPS GOING DOWN when I stopped thinking of it as a novel and began to feel it as a history of actual persons. There is hardly a page without an act, thought, or speech which is as natural as experience.”—Carl Van Doren
John Thomas McIntyre (1871-1951) was an American author. His novels include Ashton-Kirk, Investigator (1910), A Young Man's Fancy (1919), Blowing Weather (1923), Shot Towers (1926), Slag (1927), Stained Sails (1928), Drums in the Dawn (1932), and many others.
Duddington Pell Chalmers is a young man of taste, class, and girth. As trustee for a local art museum, he is called in by police when the troublesome curator is murdered and soon finds himself at odds with the official enquiry. There is no shortage of suspects among local artists, art dealers, and collectors, while motives become muddled when it is discovered that murder was not the only crime. Chalmers knows that time is of the essence, or the police will arrest his artist friend, bringing ruin to a bright career, but can he follow the clues to unmask the murderer? John T. McIntyre (1871-1951) was better known for his early works starring detective Ashton-Kirk and later mysteries featuring Philadelphia private investigator Jerry Mooney (the latter published under the pseudonym Kerry O'Neil). The Museum Murder was first published in 1929.
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