Download or read book Mr Clackworthy Con Man written by Christopher B. Booth and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Adventures of Mr Clackworthy written by Christopher B. Booth and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2013-06-15 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Adventures of Mr. Clackworthy presents 8 tales of Christopher Booth's antihero -- Amos Clackworthy, swindler extraordinaire. Together with his henchman The Early Bird, Mr. Clackworthy pursues a life of crime, preying on those who deserve to be conned. Included in this volume are: MR. CLACKWORTHY: AN INTRODUCTION, by Steve Lewis MR. CLACKWORTHY TELLS THE TRUTH MR. CLACKWORTHY WITHIN THE LAW MR. CLACKWORTHY’S PIPE DREAM MR. CLACKWORTHY TURNS CHEMIST MR. CLACKWORTHY DIGS A HOLE MR. CLACKWORTHY REVIVES A TOWN MR. CLACKWORTHY SELLS SHORT MR. CLACKWORTHY’S POT OF GOLD
Download or read book Pulp Classics written by Christopher B. Booth and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2006-01-09 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight short stories featuring Amos Clackworthy and The Early Bird, two Chicago conmen, taken from the pages of the classic pulp fiction magazine, Detective Story Magazine. Introduction by Steve Lewis. Part of the Wildside Pulp Classics series.
Download or read book Mr Clackworthy written by Christopher B. Booth and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume collects 32 tales of conman extraordinaire Amos Clackworthy. (Facsimile reprint of the 1926 Chelsea House hardcover edition.)
Download or read book The Big Book of Rogues and Villains written by Otto Penzler and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler's new anthology brings together the most cunning, ruthless, and brilliant criminals in mystery fiction, for the biggest compendium of bad guys (and girls) ever assembled. The best mysteries--whether detective, historical, police procedural, cozy, or comedy--have one thing in common: a memorable perpetrator. For every Sherlock Holmes or Sam Spade in noble pursuit, there's a Count Dracula, a Lester Leith, or a Jimmy Valentine. These are the rogues and villains who haunt our imaginations--and who often have more in common with their heroic counterparts than we might expect. Now, for the first time ever, Otto Penzler gathers the iconic traitors, thieves, con men, sociopaths, and killers who have crept through the mystery canon over the past 150 years, captivating and horrifying readers in equal measure. The 72 handpicked stories in this collection introduce us to the most depraved of psyches, from iconic antiheroes like Maurice Leblanc's Arsène Lupin and Sax Rohmer's Dr. Fu Manchu to contemporary delinquents like Lawrence Block's Ehrengraf and Donald Westlake's Dortmunder, and include unforgettable tales by Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, Washington Irving, Jack London, H.G. Wells, Sinclair Lewis, O. Henry, Edgar Wallace, Leslie Charteris, Erle Stanley Gardner, Edward D. Hoch, Max Allan Collins, Loren D. Estleman, and many more.
Download or read book Yesterday s Faces Volume 3 written by Robert Sampson and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1987-12 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than forty criminal heroes are examined in this volume. They include evil characters such as Dr. Fu Manchu, Li Shoon, Black Star, the Spider, Rafferty, Mr. Clackworthy, Elegant Edward, Big-nose Charlie, Thubway Tham, the Thunderbolt, the Man in Purple, and the Crimson Clown, plus many, many more! The development of these characters is traced across more than two decades of crime fiction published in Detective Story Magazine, Flynn's, Black Mask, and other magazines. The conventions that made these stories a special part of popular fiction are examined in detail.
Download or read book When Mr Clackworthy Needed a Bracer written by Christopher B. Booth and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 1901 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amos Clackworthy, conman deluxe, has a new get-rich-quick scheme using investments. But his intricately laid plans may come to nothing because he forgot to leave his latest mark enough time to get his money to Chicago from Texas!
Download or read book Whodunit written by Rosemary Herbert and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-05-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who populates the pages of crime and mystery writing? Who are the characters we willingly follow into the mystery genre's uneasy imaginative territory? And who created those characters in the first place? What life experience and expertise informs their work? What are the sources of their themes, regional accents, and even the axes that some grind? Why do some wish to give us a good laugh, while others seem hell-bent on making us shudder? Whodunit? answers these questions and more. Here mystery expert Rosemary Herbert brings together enlightening and entertaining information on hundreds of classic and contemporary characters and authors. Some--such as P.D. James, Ian Rankin, Sherlock Holmes, and Kinsey Millhone--appear in individual entries. Still more keep company in articles about characters we admire, such as the Clerical Sleuth, and in pieces about those we love to hate, including the Femme Fatale and Con Artist. There is even an article on a figure that haunts so many great works of mystery--The Corpse. Drawing on the Edgar Award-nominated volume The Oxford Companion to Crime & Mystery Writing, Herbert adds 101 new entries on the hottest new names in works ranging from puzzling whodunits to chilling crime novels.
Download or read book Quarterly Bulletin written by Berkshire Athenaeum and Museum and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Great Radio Mystery written by Chester K. Steele and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Deviltry of Dr Waugh written by Christopher B. Booth and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Christopher B. Booth is almost entirely forgotten today; but in 1910s through the 1930s, he was a prolific author of mysteries and westerns under his own name and the pseudonuym “John Jay Chichester.” Street & Smith’s book publishing arm, Chelsea House, collected a number of his pulp stories in book form, most famously in the volume entitled Mr. Clackworthy. Mr. Clackworthy assembles 9 stories from Street & Smith’s Detective Story Magazine featuring con man Amos Clackworthy, who preyed on the rich & unscrupulous. If you are a fan of Johnston McCulley’s character Thubway Tham (collected in 2 volumes by Wildside Press), you may already know that Tham and Clackworthy had a pair of crossover stories, one by Booth and one by McCulley. Each antihero got the better of the other in his author’s tale. Here is ""The Deviltry of Dr. Waugh,"" a non-series tale by Booth, featuring a doctor as detective, as originally published in the "
Download or read book The Publishers Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mr Clackworthy and the Auto Rim written by Christopher B. Booth and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 1901 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Amos Clackworthy, conman deluxe, spots a billboard proclaiming free factory sites for new industries, he gets off his train to investigate. Sure enough, he finds greedy men out to fleece would-be industrialists. And he can't wait to part them from their money...
Download or read book Crime Fiction 1749 1980 written by Allen J. Hubin and published by New York : Garland Pub.. This book was released on 1984 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Bibliography of Crime Fiction 1749 1975 written by Allen J. Hubin and published by [San Diego] : University Extension, University of California, San Diego. This book was released on 1979 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The First Mystery MEGAPACK written by Marcia Talley Talley and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2013-04-08 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hours of great reading await, with mystery and crime tales from some of the 20th century's most renowned authors, including Johnston McCulley (creator of Zorro), Sax Rohmer (creator of Fu Manchu), G.K. Chesterton (famous for Father Brown) — and a handpicked selection of modern stories by contemporary masters, including Nora Charles, Marcia Talley, Elaine Viets, and many more! Included in this volume: A SENIOR DISCOUNT ON DEATH, by Nora Charles MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS, by Art Taylor THE STOLEN VENUS, by Darrell Schweitzer REAR VIEW MURDER, by Carla Coupe THUBWAY THAM’S INTHULT, by Johnston McCulley THE IDES OF MARCH, by E.W. Hornung PINPRICK, by Skadi meic Beorh THE RED HERRING, by William Hope Hodgson DRAGON BONES, by Jacqueline Seewald THE GOLDEN SLIPPER, by Anna Katherine Green KALI, by Eric Taylor DRIVEN TO DISTRACTION, by Marcia Talley THE BLUE CROSS, by G.K. Chesterton THE WORST NOEL, by Barb Goffman MR. CLACKWORTHY’S POT OF GOLD, by Christopher B. Booth THE MONKEY GOD, by Seabury Quinn WEDDING KNIFE, by Elaine Viets THE MAD DETECTIVE, by John D. Swain THE ADVENTURE OF THE DIAMOND NECKLACE, by G. F. Forrest SECURITY BLANKET, by Toni L.P. Kelner A CROOK WITHOUT HONOR, by Johnston McCulley THE DAUGHTER OF HUANG CHOW, by Sax Rohmer ANCHORS AWAY, by C. Ellett Logan WAYS OF DARKNESS, by E.S. Pladwell THUBWAY THAM’S INTHANE MOMENT, by Johnston McCulley And don't forget to search this ebook store for "Wildside Megapack" to see more volumes in the series, covering mystery, westerns, science fiction, historical adventure -- and many other subjects!
Download or read book Antiquarian Bookman written by and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
