Though he did work for a small-town newspaper, Ken Svederup had been around, and to him the expense-paid trip he had won for a front-page news beat seemed pretty phony. But never look a gift horse... He was off to meet the Big Boss in California—and no doubt he’d get the real story.Ken did meet the Big Boss, but he had not anticipated Clara Kelly, whose beauty and peppery temper made him forget the girls back home in Milquevais, Minnesota.And the story was revealed...throug...

The body of a dead Japanese man turns up on restricted Goverment soil -- but did he commit suicide, or is something more sinister afoot? A wartime mystery.

There are crooks, and other crooks—ranging from the lowly dip who lifts the contents of milady’s shopping bag to the international swindlers who count their booty in millions. Harvey ranked somewhere between the two extremities. True, a certain dexterity with a pack of cards played a share in compiling his profits aboard the Trans-Atlantic liners, but he was far from being in a class with such men as Remsen, who swindled the Prince of Albania out of a quarter million francs in a single eve...

When private investigator Bill Boone is summoned to the secluded California estate of the elderly Forrest Depew to advise on financial matters, he finds himself embroiled in a sinister plot. Depew's greedy relatives are conspiring to have him declared mentally incompetent in order to gain control of his fortune. But the suspicious death of Depew himself suggests an even darker mystery is afoot. Boone must unravel the secrets of The Knoll before the killer strikes again.

The cops told Joe Moran he was through as a private eye. They'd revoked his license, taken away his gun permit, and given him orders to get out of the state. They'd had enough of his two-fisted methods and the trickery by which he'd short-circuited the law to gain his clients' brand of justice. But it was only the beginning...

Though he did work for a small-town newspaper, Ken Svederup had been around, and to him the expense-paid trip he had won for a front-page news beat seemed pretty phony. But never look a gift horse... He was off to meet the Big Boss in California -- and no doubt he’d get the real story.Ken did meet the Big Boss, but he had not anticipated Clara Kelly, whose beauty and peppery temper made him forget the girls back home in Milquevais, Minnesota.And the story was revealed...thr...

The diary read, “It is settled. I am going to kill him.” And with these words begins as unusual and spectacular a mystery as anyone could ask for. Johnny Kendall, a photographer whose job has been squeezed out in a merger, sets up shop in a small state capital as a commercial photographer. He lands the job of taking pictures of corpses for the sheriff's office, and that is how he manages to be in on the ground floor of the attempted ax murder of Dr. Harry Rigmire in his weekend fishing lod...

Known affectionately as 'Dad's Army', the Home Guard was Britain's very serious attempt to protect our shores from invasion by Nazi Germany in the Second World War. In the 'Spitfire summer' of 1940, all that the 1 million unpaid, untrained part-timers of the Local Defence Volunteers (as the organisation was originally called) wanted was a service rifle for each man, but even that was too much for a country threatened by defeat to provide.Britain's Final Defence...

As the First World War bogged down across Europe resulting in the establishment of trench systems, artillery began to grow in military importance.Never before had the use of artillery been so vital, and to this day the ferocity, duration and widespread use of artillery across the trenches of Europe has never been replicated. Featuring specially commissioned full-colour artwork, this groundbreaking study explains and illustrates the enormous advances in the use of a...

This issue, we have an original mystery from Mike Adamson, plus a recent tale by Neil S. Plakcy (courtesy of our Acquiring Editors). Classic mystery reprints come from Dale Clark and Edgar Wallace. Plus, of course, a solve-it-yourself puzzler by Hal Charles.I broke out the Adventure category for Vera Shamarin, by William Murray Graydon. It’s an exciting tale of escape from Russia. Not really mystery, but perhaps more suspense, I thought it belonged in its own category. See if you a...

In 1914 the artillery of Britain's 'Field Army' encompassed those weapons judged to have sufficient mobility to keep up with troops in the field.This book describes all major variants, from the 60-pdr guns of the heavy field batteries, perched somewhat uncomfortably on the cusp between field artillery and siege artillery, to the 2.75in. guns of the mountain batteries, almost toy-like in comparison.Between these two extremes lay the bulk of the artillery of ...

World War I is often deemed to have been 'a war of artillery'.British heavy artillery played a vital part in destroying the German trenches and providing invaluable cover for advancing troops on the Western Front. This book details the huge guns of the Royal Garrison Artillery, including the 6-in. siege gun and howitzer, the 8-in. howitzer, the 12-in. railway and siege howitzer and the infamous 9.2-in breech-loading siege howitzer.Camouflage and enemy batte...