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Fletcher Flora

Fletcher Flora enjoyed a long career as a pulp fiction and mystery writer, and among his works we discovered a number of "daring" (for the time -- they are quite modest by modern standards) novels of lesbian love (some with crime elements). All were published as paperback originals from somewhat-less-than-respectable publishing companies -- Strange Sisters in 1954 and Desperate Asylum in 1955 from Lion Books, and Take Me Home in 1959 from Monarch. If you like your pulp fiction on the steam...

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Fletcher Flora, Thomas B. Dewey, Elisabeth Sanxay Holding

The Suspense Novel MEGAPACK® is the first in what we hope will become a long-running series collecting (obviously enough) novels of suspense. To kick things off, we have selected 4 terrific books we hope you will find interesting and entertaining:CAN A MERMAID KILL? by Thomas B. Dewey — An exciting new novel of suspense by the master of murder-mystery!KILL JOY, by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding — "Another beautiful study in the subtle an...

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Fletcher Flora, H. Bedford-Jones, Jacques Futrelle, Edwin Balmer

Many people consider the novella form -- 17,500 words to 40,000 words -- the perfect length. It’s long enough to flesh out characters, but short enough to read in one sitting while still having plenty of plot. This volume collects 8 crime and suspense stories:AS I LIE DEAD, by Fletcher FloraRENDEZVOUS, by H. Bedford-JonesDEATH BY TELEPHONE, by James W. MarvinTHE SCARLET THREAD, by Jacques FutrelleTALISMAN OF DOOM, by James W. MarvinCINDERELLA’S SL...

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Stuart Palmer, Fletcher Flora

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The Hildegarde Withers Mysteries

The spinster sleuth is out to rescue a young woman whose hippie adventure turns deadly in this classic mystery from the author of The Penguin Pool Murder.During a six-week college break, Lenore Gregory does what all the young girls are doing in the winter of 1969: She heads to Greenwich Village to protest the Vietnam War, painting flowers on her Volkswagen. And just as she's starting to fit in, she disappears, becoming yet another missing hippie—and a prob...

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Fletcher Flora, Talmage Powell, James Michael Ullman, Rufus King, 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 KingTHE SPENT DAYS, by Fletcher FloraCONSOLATION PRIZE, by Stephen Wasylyk

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Talmage Powell, Fletcher Flora, Robert Moore Williams, Rufus King, H. L. Mencken, William J. Wintle, Tom Worth, W.C. Morrow, Lillian B. Hunt, Steve Fisher, Victor Rousseau, Gerald Vance, Emil Petaja, Thomas Burke, Robert Leslie Bellem, H.B. Hickey, George T. Wetzell, Charles V. De Vet, Theodore R. Cogswell

Here for your reading delectation, are 25 outre tales of crime. Since history has proven that there is nothing unusual or unexpected about the human (or inhuman) drive to break the law, it should come as no surprise that the weird, the strange, the supernatural, and the just plain odd often, in fictional form, manifest themselves allayed to the criminal element. Included are:INTRODUCTION, by Shawn GarrettTHE WINDOW OF HORRORS, by H.L. MenckenTHE FOOTSTEPS ON THE STAIR...

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Fletcher Flora

The Golden Age of Mystery & Crime MEGAPACK™ series focuses on unjustly forgotten mystery writers from the 1960s and before. Fletcher Flora is a perfect example. Beginning in the 1950s, Flora wrote a string of 20 great novels -- mysteries, suspense, plus three pseudonymously as "Ellery Queen." He also published more than 160 short stories in the top mystery magazines. In his day, he was among the top of his field. This volume collects 26 of his classic mystery and crime tales for your readi...

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Fletcher Flora

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Lesbian Pulp Classics

She knew it was dangerous, but she knew it had to be this way. No other way was normal—to her. From the moment she fell in love as a teenager with Stella, Kathy knew her life would take a difficult path. She tried to resist her feelings—tried to be the person her family wanted her to be—but the lure of another woman’s love was too powerful. And so Kathy strayed the dark and hidden path among the twilight women, doing things her body urged her to do, until one night she made a choice that w...

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Fletcher Flora

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 FURYTHE CLOSING TRAPHELL FOR HANNAHTHE COLLECTOR COMES AFTER PAYDAYFAIR GAMEMAY I COME IN?KILL ME TOMORROWTRESPASSERMOST AGREEABLY POISONEDSOUNDS AND SMELLSA COOL SWIM ON A HOT DAYIQ - 184SETTLEMENT OUT OF COURTFOR MONEY RECEIVEDTHE CAPSULE

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Fletcher Flora

Lawyer Solomon Burr has a new client . . . and it's an old friend of his from law school. Can Sol save his old pal from a murder rap?This tale is ripped from the April 1953 issue of Dime Detective Magazine. A classic!

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Fletcher Flora

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...

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Fletcher Flora

Fanny, the young and amoral wife of a former crime boss and politician, watches too many westerns. After the latest movie, she begins to wonder whether she could kill her husband by tying wet rawhide around his throat and leaving it to dry and tighten in the sun...