Winston Tharp

Samuel “Sam” Rush Watkins (June 26, 1839 – July 20, 1901) was a noted Confederate soldier during the American Civil War. He is known today f…

Iconoclastic Memories of the Civil War

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Ambrose Bierce

At the outset of the American Civil War, [the writer Ambrose] Bierce enlisted in the Union Army's 9th Indiana Infantry Regiment....In Februa…

Boston Blackie

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Jack Boyle

Boston Blackie is the novelization of a group of pulp short stories by Jack Boyle (1881-1928). Blackie, an ex-con with a college education, …

Gullible's Travels, Etc.

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Ring Lardner

Humorous stories of social climbing in America's "classless" society. - Summary by Winston Tharp

A Bullet for Cinderella

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John D Macdonald and John Dann Macdonald

HER VENEER WAS BIG CITY ...But one look and you knew that Toni Raselle's instincts were straight out of the river shack she came from.I watc…

Boston Blackie: Stories Around the Opium Lamp

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Jack Boyle

Boston Blackie had his birth in the imagination of a self confessed “opium eater.” Jack Boyle was a San Francisco newspaper man who became d…

Adventures Of The Infallible Godahl

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Frederick Irving Anderson

Frederick Irving Anderson was a New York newspaperman who had a second career writing mystery stories for the "slick" magazines su…

The Early Poems of Hart Crane

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Hart Crane

A collection of Hart Crane poems published before 1923.These poems originally appeared in a variety of magazines (The Pagan, The Double Deal…

Selected Uncle Abner Mysteries

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Melville Davisson Post

Fourteen mysteries from the pages of the Saturday Evening Post, the Metropolitan, Red Book, and Pictorial Review magazines featuring Uncle A…

Five Continental Op Stories

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Dashiell Hammett

Before Sam Spade chased the black bird in The Maltese Falcon and Nick and Nora Charles stirred their first martinis in The Thin Man, the Con…

Lion Loose

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James H. Schmitz

The most dangerous of animals is not the biggest and fiercest—but the one that's hardest to stop. Add intelligence to that ... and you may c…

The Tenth Clew and Other Continental Op Stories

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Dashiell Hammett

Biographer Nathan Ward has called “The Tenth Clew” Dashiell Hammett’s “first real jewel of a story.” In it, Hammett’s nameless Continental D…

Zigzags of Treachery and other stories

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Dashiell Hammett

The death of a well known San Francisco doctor brings a charge of murder for his wife, but is it murder or suicide, and is she really his wi…

The Gutting of Couffignal

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Dashiell Hammett

Dashiell Hammett’s hardboiled detective is assigned by his agency to guard a stash of wedding presents on an exclusive Bay Area island. Jus…

The Scorched Face

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Dashiell Hammett

Hammett's Continental Op searches for two missing young women and finds more than he bargained for. - Summary by Winston Tharp