Download or read book The Black Star written by Johnston McCulley and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-21 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Black Star" is a wonderful crime-adventure book by the creator of the famous "The Mark of Zorro." The author worked as a police reporter before becoming a prolific and successful writer for pulp magazines and Hollywood. His real-life experiences often find reflection in his novels. The book, presented here, features a villain, The Black Star, a master to escape from the police. Yet the successful amateur detective who finally captures him, discovers that sending the Black Star to the police would ruin his fiancée's family. Now, he needs to outwit the law and the Black Star to ensure a happy ending.

Download or read book The Black Star written by Johnston McCulley and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Black Star and Black Star s Campaign Detective Stories written by Johnston McCulley and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 1921-01-01 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winds whistled up the river, and winds whistled down from the hills, and they met to swirl and gather fury and rattle the city’s millions of windowpanes. They carried a mixture of sleet and fine snow, the first herald of the winter to come. In the business district they swung signs madly back and forth, and roared around the corners of high office buildings, and swept madly against struggling trolley cars. They poured through the man-made cañons; they dashed out the broad boulevards—and so they came to the attention of Mr. Roger Verbeck, at about the hour of midnight, as he turned over in his warm bed and debated whether to rise and lower the window or take a chance with the rapidly lowering temperature. “Beastly night!” Verbeck confided to himself, and put his head beneath the covers. He slept—and suddenly he awakened. A moment before he had been in the midst of a pleasant dream; now every sense was alert, and his right hand, creeping softly under the cover, reached the side of the bed and grasped an automatic pistol that hung in a rack there. From the adjoining room—his library—there came no flash of an electric torch, no footfall, no sound foreign to the apartment, nothing to indicate the presence of an intruder. Yet Verbeck sensed that an intruder was there. He slipped quietly from the bed, shivering a bit because of the cold wind, put his feet into slippers, and drew on a dressing gown over his pajamas. Then, his pistol held ready for use in case of emergency, he started across the bedroom, taking short steps and walking on his toes. A reflection entered the room from the arc light on the nearest street corner. This uncertain light was shut off for an instant, and Verbeck whirled quickly, silently, to find another man slipping up beside him. It was Muggs—a little, wiry man of uncertain age, who had been in Verbeck’s employ for several years, valet at times, comrade in arms at times, willing adventurer always. Muggs bent forward until his lips were close to Verbeck’s ear. “I heard it, too, boss,” he said. “Somebody in the library!” Verbeck nodded; they crept nearer the door. Inch by inch, Verbeck pulled aside one of the curtains, until they could peer into the other room. A gleam from the corner arc light penetrated the library, too. It revealed the interior of the room in a sort of semi-gloom, causing elusive shadows that flitted here and there in such fashion that they scarcely could be distinguished from substance. Also, it revealed an open window near the fire escape—and it showed the form of a man standing before Verbeck’s antique desk in a corner. Muggs bent beneath his master’s arm to see better. He felt Verbeck grip his shoulder, and looked up to find him indicating the open window. Like a shadow, Muggs, who also held a weapon in his hand, slipped through the curtains, crept along the wall, and advanced toward that window to cut off the intruder’s retreat.

Download or read book The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories written by Otto Penzler and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2012-05-09 with total page 1138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unstoppable anthology of crime stories culled from Black Mask magazine the legendary publication that turned a pulp phenomenon into literary mainstream. Black Mask was the apotheosis of noir. It was the magazine where the first hardboiled detective story, which was written by Carroll John Daly appeared. It was the slum in which such American literary titans like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler got their start, and it was the home of stories with titles like “Murder Is Bad Luck,” “Ten Carets of Lead,” and “Drop Dead Twice.” Collected here is best of the best, the hardest of the hardboiled, and the darkest of the dark of America’s finest crime fiction. This masterpiece collection represents a high watermark of America’s underbelly. Crime writing gets no better than this. Featuring • Deadly Diamonds • Dancing Rats • A Prize Fighter Fighting for His Life • A Parrot that Wouldn’t Talk Including • Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon as it was originally published • Lester Dent's Luck in print for the first time

Download or read book Black Star Renegades written by Michael Moreci and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2018-01-02 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Star Wars, a galaxy-hopping space adventure about a galactic kingdom bent on control and the young misfit who must find the power within before it’s too late. SyFy Wire—January Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books to Pick Up as soon as Possible The Verge—18 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books to Read in January Chicago Review of Books—Best New Books of January Cade Sura holds the future of the galaxy in his hands: the ultimate weapon that will bring total peace. He didn’t ask for it, he doesn’t want it, and there’s no worse choice to wield it in all of space, but if he doesn’t, everyone’s totally screwed. The evil Praxis kingdom is on the cusp of having every star system under its control, and if that happens, there’ll be no contesting their cruel reign. Especially if its fanatical overlord, Ga Halle, manages to capture Cade and snag the all-powerful weapon for herself. Cade can’t hide from Praxis, and he can’t run from the destiny that’s been shoved into his hands. So he only has one option: He has to fight. Cade’s not going to let destiny send him on a suicide run, though. With some help from his friends—rebels and scoundrels alike—Cade’s going to use this weapon to chart a new destiny for the galaxy, and for himself. He just has to do so before everyone around him discovers that he’s a complete and total fraud. Blending the space operatics of Star Wars and the swagger of Guardians of the Galaxy, Black Star Renegades is a galaxy-hopping adventure that blasts its way from seedy spacer bars to sacred temples guarded by deadly creatures—all with a cast of misfit characters who have nowhere to go and nothing to lose.

Download or read book Raven Black written by Ann Cleeves and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2008-06-24 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The basis for the hit series "Shetland" now airing on PBS. Winner of Britain's coveted Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award, Ann Cleeves's Raven Black introduces a dazzling suspense series to U.S. mystery readers. It is a cold January morning and Shetland lies beneath a deep layer of snow. Trudging home, Fran Hunter's eye is drawn to a splash of color on the frozen ground, ravens circling above. It is the strangled body of her teenage neighbor, Catherine Ross. The locals on the quiet island stubbornly focus their gaze on one man--loner and simpleton Magnus Tait. But when detective Jimmy Perez and his colleagues from the mainland insist on opening out the investigation, a veil of suspicion and fear is thrown over the entire community. For the first time in years, Catherine's neighbors nervously lock their doors, while a killer lives on in their midst.

Download or read book Little Black Book of Murder written by Nancy Martin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Society columnist Nora Blackbird is thrust into the world of celebrity tabloid gossip when a billionaire buys the farm…. Nora’s assigned to write a profile on billionaire fashion designer Swain Starr, who recently retired to build a high-tech organic farm with his new wife, Zephyr, a former supermodel. But before Nora can get the story, the mogul is murdered. And now her boss wants her to snap up an exclusive on who killed Starr before the cops do. But solving this murder won’t be easy with a family as colorful as Nora’s. Mick, her sort-of husband, is associating with unsavory characters from his past. Her sister Libby is transforming into a stage mom for her diabolical twins. And Emma, the youngest Blackbird, is mysteriously kicked out of the house by Mick. Nora’s home life may be hogging the spotlight, but there’s also a matter of Starr’s missing pig, which just might be the key to solving this mystery and the way Nora can bring home the bacon….

Download or read book Black Star written by Eric A. Glover and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stranded on an alien planet, two astronauts must battle deadly elements and each other to recover a reserve shuttle built for one Black Star is a debut graphic novel by Eric Anthony Glover, based on his original unproduced screenplay, and illustrated by Arielle Jovellanos. In the future, interstellar travel is past its prime and sending shuttles beyond our solar system—even for vital scientific research—is a life-threatening gamble. However, in order to retrieve samples of an alien flower that may hold the key to saving countless lives, Harper North and her crew of scientists must journey to Eleos, a dangerous planet in deep space. But as they approach Eleos, their ship is caught in an asteroid storm and as it hurtles towards the surface, its reserve shuttle detaches, landing over 100 kilometers away. When the rest of the crew perishes in the burning wreckage of the ship, North races towards the rescue shuttle built for one, hoping to fulfill their mission and survive. But North isn’t alone: The team’s wilderness expert is still alive and hell-bent on hunting North down and claiming the shuttle for herself. Now, North has no choice but to reach the shuttle first—and fast. The fuel is leaking. Her GPS battery is dying. And the planet’s deadly seasonal change is coming. As she battles the flora and fauna and tries to elude her ruthless former crew mate, North will find the cost of survival is dear . . . Will she be willing to pay that price?

Download or read book The Black Book written by Orhan Pamuk and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-08-18 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ** PRE-ORDER NIGHTS OF PLAGUE, THE NEW NOVEL FROM ORHAN PAMUK ** Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 'Dazzling ... Turns the detective novel on its head.' Independent on Sunday 'Pamuk's masterpiece' Times Literary Supplement A brilliantly unconventional mystery and a provocative meditation on the weight of history in modern Istanbul. Galip's wife has disappeared. Could she have left him for Celál, a popular newspaper columnist? But Celál, too, seems to have vanished. As Galip investigates, he gradually assumes the enviable Celal's identity, wearing his clothes, answering his phone calls, even writing his columns. But despite pursuing every clue the nature of the mystery keeps changing, and Galip never feels himself to be any closer to finding his beloved Ruya. When he receives a death threat, he begins to fear the worst . . .

Download or read book The Black Echo written by Michael Connelly and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An LAPD homicide detective must choose between justice and vengeance as he teams up with the FBI in this "thrilling" novel filled with mystery and adventure (New York Times Book Review). For maverick LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch, the body in the drainpipe at Mulholland Dam is more than another anonymous statistic. This one is personal . . . because the murdered man was a fellow Vietnam "tunnel rat" who had fought side by side with him in a hellish underground war. Now Bosch is about to relive the horror of Nam. From a dangerous maze of blind alleys to a daring criminal heist beneath the city, his survival instincts will once again be tested to their limit. Pitted against enemies inside his own department and forced to make the agonizing choice between justice and vengeance, Bosch goes on the hunt for a killer whose true face will shock him.

Download or read book Singapore Black written by William L. Gibson and published by Monsoon Books. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Singapore/Malaya, 1892: When a dead American is found floating in Rochor Canal, Chief Detective Inspector David Hawksworth begins an investigation that quickly leads into a labyrinth of deceit and violence in the polyglot steamcooker of turnofthecentury Singapore. As Chinese gangs verge on open turf war and powerful commercial enterprises vie for control of the economy, a stolen statue that houses an ancient Hindu goddess becomes the object of a pursuit with a mounting body count, and its seems that everyone is suffering from maniacal erotic nightmares. Will Hawksworth be able to restore order before the colony is tipped into a bloodbath? Explore the dark underbelly of nineteenthcentury Singapore’s Chinatown and colonial district in this hardboiled historical thriller trilogy, comprising Singapore Black, Singapore Yellow and Singapore Red.

Download or read book Delphi Collected Works of Johnston McCulley US Illustrated written by Johnston McCulley and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2024-06-13 with total page 4269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pulp fiction master Johnston McCulley is most famous today as the creator of Zorro, though over a long career he issued a plethora of exciting heroes and villains. Colourful characters such as Black Star, Thubway Tham, The Spider, The Bat, The Crimson Clown, The Thunderbolt and many more helped influence the development of American pulp and comic book literature. This eBook presents McCulley’s collected works, with numerous illustrations, many rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to McCulley’s life and works * Features numerous pulp novellas and stories appearing in digital print for the first time * Concise introductions to the major series * A wide range of McCulley’s famous creations * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Easily locate the stories you want to read * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres CONTENTS: The Zorro Series The Curse of Capistrano (1919) The Further Adventures of Zorro (1924) The Black Star Stories The Black Star (1916) Black Star’s Subterfuge (1916) Return of the Black Star (1917) Black Star’s Campaign (1919) Black Star Comes Back (1921) The Thubway Tham Stories Thubway Tham Stories The Spider Series The Spider’s Den (1918) The Spider’s Sign (1918) Into the Spider’s Jaws (1918) The Spider’s Strain (1919) The Spider’s Reward (1919) The Thunderbolt Tales Master and Man (1920) The Kidnapped Midas (1920) The Big Six (1920) The Man in Purple Series The Man in Purple (1921) The Man in Purple Meets a Man in Blue (1921) Breath of Disaster (1921) The Bat Stories The Bat Strikes! (1934) Bite of the Bat (1934) Shadow of the Bat (1935) Code of the Bat (1935) The Crimson Clown The Crimson Clown (1926) The Avenging Twins The Avenging Twins (1927) The Rollicking Rogue Stories The Rollicking Rogue (1930) The Rollicking Rogue’s Second Deal (1930) The Green Ghost Series The Green Ghost (1934) The Day of Settlement (1934) Swift Revenge (1934) The Green Ghost Stalks (1934) The Murder Note (1935) Deadly Peril (1935) Bloodstained Bonds (1935) The Mongoose Cases Alias the Mongoose (1932) The Voice from Nowhere (1932) The Mongoose Strikes Again (1932) Smoke of Revenge (1932) Jewels of the Rajah (1932) Ransom for Vengeance (1932) Six Sacks of Gold (1933) Profit for the Mongoose (1933) Trap of the Mongoose (1933) The Whirlwind Stories Alias The Whirlwind (1933) The Whirlwind’s Revenge (1934) The Whirlwind’s Red Trail (1934) The Whirlwind’s Rage (1934) The Whirlwind’s Ready Blade (1934) The Whirlwind’s Frenzy (1934) The Whirlwind’s Private War (1935) Other Pulp Stories Wild Norene (1914) Captain Fly-by-Night (1916) The Jungle Trail (1917) The Brand of Silence (1919) Four Hours (1919) Carden, Crook Comedian (1920) Flaming Hate (1920) The Mystery of the Private Dining Room (1920) Mysterious Doctor Toke (1921) The Obvious Clew (1921) The Ghost Phone (1921) Jerry, the Boaster (1923) The Black Jarl (1923) The Scarlet Scourge (1925) Miscellaneous Stories

Download or read book Delphi Collected Works of Johnston McCulley Illustrated written by Johnston McCulley and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2024-06-13 with total page 5067 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pulp fiction master Johnston McCulley is most famous today as the creator of Zorro, though over a long career he issued a plethora of exciting heroes and villains. Colourful characters such as Black Star, Thubway Tham, The Spider, The Bat, The Crimson Clown, The Thunderbolt and many more helped influence the development of American pulp and comic book literature. This eBook presents McCulley’s collected works, with numerous illustrations, many rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to McCulley’s life and works * Concise introductions to the major series * All the Zorro novels for the first time in digital publishing, with individual contents tables * Includes a selection of Zorro short stories * A wide range of McCulley’s famous creations * Features numerous pulp novellas and stories appearing in digital print for the first time * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Easily locate the stories you want to read * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres CONTENTS: The Zorro Series The Curse of Capistrano (1919) The Further Adventures of Zorro (1924) Zorro Rides Again (1931) The Sign of Zorro (1941) A Task for Zorro (1947) Zorro’s Fight for Life (1951) Miscellaneous Zorro Short Stories The Black Star Stories The Black Star (1916) Black Star’s Subterfuge (1916) Return of the Black Star (1917) Black Star’s Campaign (1919) Black Star Comes Back (1921) The Thubway Tham Stories Thubway Tham Stories The Spider Series The Spider’s Den (1918) The Spider’s Sign (1918) Into the Spider’s Jaws (1918) The Spider’s Strain (1919) The Spider’s Reward (1919) The Thunderbolt Tales Master and Man (1920) The Kidnapped Midas (1920) The Big Six (1920) The Man in Purple Series The Man in Purple (1921) The Man in Purple Meets a Man in Blue (1921) Breath of Disaster (1921) The Bat Stories The Bat Strikes! (1934) Bite of the Bat (1934) Shadow of the Bat (1935) Code of the Bat (1935) The Crimson Clown The Crimson Clown (1926) The Avenging Twins The Avenging Twins (1927) The Rollicking Rogue Stories The Rollicking Rogue (1930) The Rollicking Rogue’s Second Deal (1930) The Green Ghost Series The Green Ghost (1934) The Day of Settlement (1934) Swift Revenge (1934) The Green Ghost Stalks (1934) The Murder Note (1935) Deadly Peril (1935) Bloodstained Bonds (1935) The Mongoose Cases Alias the Mongoose (1932) The Voice from Nowhere (1932) The Mongoose Strikes Again (1932) Smoke of Revenge (1932) Jewels of the Rajah (1932) Ransom for Vengeance (1932) Six Sacks of Gold (1933) Profit for the Mongoose (1933) Trap of the Mongoose (1933) The Whirlwind Stories Alias The Whirlwind (1933) The Whirlwind’s Revenge (1934) The Whirlwind’s Red Trail (1934) The Whirlwind’s Rage (1934) The Whirlwind’s Ready Blade (1934) The Whirlwind’s Frenzy (1934) The Whirlwind’s Private War (1935) Other Pulp Stories Wild Norene (1914) Captain Fly-by-Night (1916) The Jungle Trail (1917) The Brand of Silence (1919) Four Hours (1919) Carden, Crook Comedian (1920) Flaming Hate (1920) The Mystery of the Private Dining Room (1920) Mysterious Doctor Toke (1921) The Obvious Clew (1921) The Ghost Phone (1921) Jerry, the Boaster (1923) The Black Jarl (1923) The Scarlet Scourge (1925) Miscellaneous Stories

Download or read book Black Star Bright Dawn written by Scott O'Dell and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2008 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bright Dawn must face the challenge of the Iditarod dog sled race alone when her father is injured. Soon she realizes that the race and her life depend on how much she can rely on her lead dog, Black Star.

Download or read book The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps written by Otto Penzler and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2008-12-24 with total page 1170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biggest, the boldest, the most comprehensive collection of Pulp writing ever assembled. Weighing in at over a thousand pages, containing over forty-seven stories and two novels, this book is big baby, bigger and more powerful than a freight train—a bullet couldn’t pass through it. Here are the best stories and every major writer who ever appeared in celebrated Pulps like Black Mask, Dime Detective, Detective Fiction Weekly, and more. These are the classic tales that created the genre and gave birth to hard-hitting detectives who smoke criminals like packs of cigarettes; sultry dames whose looks are as lethal as a dagger to the chest; and gin-soaked hideouts where conversations are just preludes to murder. This is crime fiction at its gritty best. Including: • Three stories by Raymond Chandler, Cornell Woolrich, Erle Stanley Gardner, and Dashiell Hammett. • Complete novels from Carroll John Daly, the man who invented the hard-boiled detective, and Fredrick Nebel, one of the masters of the form. • A never before published Dashiell Hammett story. • Every other major pulp writer of the time, including Paul Cain, Steve Fisher, James M. Cain, Horace McCoy, and many many more of whom you’ve probably never heard. • Three deadly sections–The Crimefighters, The Villains, and Dames–with three unstoppable introductions by Harlan Coben, Harlan Ellison, and Laura Lippman Featuring: • Plenty of reasons for murder, all of them good. • A kid so smart–he’ll die of it. • A soft-hearted loan shark’s legman learning–the hard way–never to buy a strange blonde a hamburger. • The uncanny “Moon Man” and his mad-money victims.

Download or read book The Birdwatcher written by William Shaw and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Police Sergeant William South has a good reason to shy away from murder investigations: he is a murderer himself. A methodical, diligent, and exceptionally bright detective, South is an avid birdwatcher and trusted figure in his small town on the rugged Kentish coast. He also lives with the deeply buried secret that, as a child in Northern Ireland, he may have killed a man. When a fellow birdwatcher is found murdered in his remote home, South's world flips. The culprit seems to be a drifter from South's childhood; the victim was the only person connecting South to his early crime; and a troubled, vivacious new female sergeant has been relocated from London and assigned to work with South. As our hero investigates, he must work ever-harder to keep his own connections to the victim, and his past, a secret. The Birdwatcher is British crime fiction at its finest; a stirring portrait of flawed, vulnerable investigators; a meticulously constructed mystery; and a primal story of fear, loyalty and vengeance. **Longlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year