Fletcher Flora

Dan J. Marlowe

Charles Runyon

Collects three crime novels originally published by Gold Medal Books. The vengeance man: After Jim Wilson murders his wife and her lover in a fleabag motel, he gets off on a technicality and launches a campaign of terror against the small town he believes betrayed him. Park Avenue tramp: During one of her blackouts, Charity McAdams Farnese walks into a downtown bar named Duo's and into the life of Joe Doyle, second-rate piano player. But Charity's husband has had enough of her cheating ways. The prettiest girl I ever killed: Accidents happen, but the town of Sherman seems to have more than its fair share of the fatal kind. Someone falls into a well, another drowns, another is killed by an exploding stove. Curt Friedland comes back to town to clear his brother of murder, convinced there is more to all these deaths than mere coincidence.

A Trio of Gold Medals

The Vengeance Man

"Wildside Press is proud to present the second of Fletcher Flora’s series featuring police detective Lt. Joseph Marcus, as part of our ongoing effort to make Flora’s collected work available again to the public. We plan to release the entire series. While Flora had a long career writing much crime, mystery, and detective fiction, Marcus seems to be his only attempt to create a series character. Marcus, as a character, is marked by his dogged rationality, as he attempts to solve various “inexplicable” murders and crimes, much to the annoyance of his compatriot Bobo Fuller. We have been able to identify nine stories featuring the character—although as always we ask fans and aficionados to inform us of any we have missed. Note: while many online sources list the Fletcher Flora story “The Capsule” (from Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine, December 1964) as being part of the Marcus series, it does not actually feature the character. “The Capsule” can be read in Wildside Press’s The Second Fletcher Flora Mystery MEGAPACK®. We hope you enjoy this classic 1964 detective story."

The Dead Don't Speak: Lt. Joseph Marcus #2

The Hotshot

Our second volume of Fletcher Flora’s crime and mystery stories collects 20 more tales by the classic author. Included this time are: HELL HAS NO FURY THE CLOSING TRAP HELL FOR HANNAH THE COLLECTOR COMES AFTER PAYDAY FAIR GAME MAY I COME IN? KILL ME TOMORROW TRESPASSER MOST AGREEABLY POISONED SOUNDS AND SMELLS A COOL SWIM ON A HOT DAY IQ - 184 SETTLEMENT OUT OF COURT FOR MONEY RECEIVED THE CAPSULE THE TOOL ONE ENCHANTED EVENING SOMETHING VERY SPECIAL A LESSON IN RECIPROCITY THE AVERAGE MURDERER If you enjoy this ebook, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see more of the 300+ volumes in this series, covering adventure, historical fiction, mysteries, westerns, ghost stories, science fiction -- and much, much more!

The Second Fletcher Flora Mystery MEGAPACK®

Frank Belknap Long

Guy de Maupassant

R.A. Lafferty

Talmage Powell

Welcome to The Seventh Ghost Story MEGAPACK®! Once more we have a wide-ranging assortment of supernatural fiction, with setting across the world -- Europe, the Americas, Asia -- and across the centuries. You will note that we have a larger than normal number of "Anonymous" stories. No, the authors weren't embarrassed by their contributions. Victorian-era literary magazines and newspapers often ran fiction without crediting the author, or with only vague terms like "A Lady," initials, or humorous pseudonyms (as with the story by “Q.E.D.” in this volume). Authors later collected their stories in books, and that's when readers discovered who had actually written what. If a story never got reprinted, its author remained a mystery. Modern scholars are still researching these anonymous stories, but many authors will never be properly identified. This time we include: BEAUTIFUL DREAMER, by R.A. Lafferty FROM THE TOMB, by Guy De Maupassant THE VENGEANCE OF A TREE, by Eleanor F. Lewis YOU CAN'T KILL A GHOST, by Frank Belknap Long A FIGHT WITH A GHOST, by Q.E.D. A CRY ACROSS THE BLACK WATER, by S. R. Crockett A FRIENDLY EXORCISE, by Talmage Powell MRS. DAVENPORT'S GHOST, by Frederick P. Schrader COUSIN KELLY, by Fletcher Flora GHOST OF BUCKSTOWN INN, by Arnold M. Anderson THE HUNGRY GHOST, by Emil Petaja GRAND-DAME'S GHOST STORY, by C.D. THE STONE CHAMBER OF TAVERNDALE MANOR HOUSE, by Lady Mabel Howard THE WATER GHOST OF HARROWBY HALL, by John Kendrick Bangs THE PARLOR-CAR GHOST, by A Lady THE THIRTEENTH BOAT, by George J. Rawlins THE RETURN OF YEN-TCHIN-KING, by Lafcadio Hearn THE SPECTRE OF TAPPINGTON, by Thomas Ingoldsby I HAD A HUNCH, AND..., by Talmage Powell THE BURGLAR'S GHOST, by Anonymous A PHANTOM TOE, by Anonymous THE PHANTOM WOMAN, by Anonymous THE GHOSTS OF RED CREEK, by S. T. THE PHANTOM HAG, by Anonymous THE SPECTRE BRIDE, by Anonymous HOW HE CAUGHT THE GHOST, by Anonymous COLONEL HALIFAX'S GHOST STORY, by Anonymous THE GHOST OF THE COUNT, by Anonymous THE OLD MANSION, by Anonymous A MISFIT GHOST, by Anonymous AN UNBIDDEN GUEST, by Anonymous THE DEAD WOMAN'S PHOTOGRAPH, by Anonymous THE GHOST OF A LIVE MAN, by Anonymous THE GHOST OF WASHINGTON, by Anonymous If you enjoy this ebook, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see more of the 300+ volumes in this series, covering adventure, historical fiction, mysteries, westerns, ghost stories, science fiction -- and much, much more!

The 7th Ghost Story MEGAPACK®

Fletcher Flora (1914-1968) wrote or co-wrote sixteen novels under his own name plus ghost-wrote three as Ellery Queen. He penned many short stories for a variety of mystery magazines and anthologies in the 1950s and 1960s. This volume includes: I’ll Kill for You I’ll Race You In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree

Black Cat THRILLOGY #5: 3 Classic Stories by Fletcher Flora

Skimmer was the hotshot - handsome, smart, arrogant . . . He had everything: personality, looks, women. He was ready for success - regardless of the cost . . . And then he met a girl and a gangster - and something went wrong . . . Hotshot is Skimmer’s story - a unique candid portrait, not of the knife-wielding delinquents who capture headlines, but of today’s troubled youth as they really are. The unforgettable story of a generation battling to find its way in a world it never made.

The Hot Shot

During one of her blackouts, Charity McAdams Farnese walks into a downtown bar named Duo's and into the life of Joe Doyle, second-rate piano player and a man with a bum heart. Yancy the bartender knows that she's trouble, a rich girl with an itch, but Joe won't listen. All he knows is that Charity wants to love him. But Charity has a husband Oliver Alton Farnese. Oliver is a creature of habit and allows Charity her flings. But when this fling turns serious, Oliver has his own way of dealing with the situation.

Park Avenue Tramp

Middleweight fighter Jackie Brand wasn't going anywhere as a boxer, but he needed money to keep Peg happy. Then he got an offer to throw a fight...

Heels Are for Hating

Rufus King

James Michael Ullman

Stephen Wasylyk

Who doesn’t like a good mystery? Here are 25 great noir crime and mystery stories by some of the top fictioneers of the 20th century, ripped from the pages of such magazines as The Black Mask Mystery Magazine, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Secret Agent X, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine -- and many more! Hours of great reading await...if you dare proceed! LET HER KILL HERSELF, by Rufus King THE SPENT DAYS, by Fletcher Flora CONSOLATION PRIZE, by Stephen Wasylyk SPECIAL DELIVERY, by James Holding A CHANGE OF HEART, by Talmage Powell THE COMPLIMENTS OF THE CHIEF, by Lincoln Steffens BODY RANSOM, by Arthur Wallace THE DEBT COLLECTOR, by Maurice Level HAPPY ENDING, by Rufus King ALLIGATORS DON'T ASK FOR PAYMENT, by Stephen Wasylyk --GOOD-BYE, SWEET WORLD, by Bryce Walton WHITEMAIL, by Joyce Kilmer GETTING RID OF GEORGE, by Robert Arthur JURY OF ONE, by Talmage Powell LET'S GO TO A FUNERAL, by James Michael Ullman THE CONFESSION, by Maurice Level LIVE BAIT, by Harley L. Court HEIST IN PIANISSIMO, by Talmage Powell FLOWERS FOR MR. VECCHI, by Larry Allan NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT, by James Michael Ullman MARKED IN RED, by Ralph Powers SOMETHING PRICELESS, by Fletcher Flora BODY ON THE BEACH, by Arthur Wallace FOUND GUILTY, by Josiah Flynt & Francis Walton THE WHISPERING CORPSE, by Richard B. Sale If you enjoy this ebook, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see more of the 300+ volumes in this series, covering adventure, historical fiction, mysteries, westerns, ghost stories, science fiction -- and much, much more!

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