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May Edginton



May Edginton (born Helen Marion Edginton; 1883-1957) was a popular English author with over 50 novels.



Johnnie Luck and Napoleon Prince: The Expanded Adventures



When a wheelchair-bound preacher arrives in a small mining town, Johnnie Luck doesn’t realize that his life is soon to change direction. It’s not long before Napoleon Prince, con artist and master thief, is unveiled, and Johnnie decides he wants to be partners (not least because of Prince’s lovely sister). May Edginton wrote three series (six stories each) of Napoleon Prince’s “games,” the first two first series published together in book form in 1912. This volume collects all eighteen stories.


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The Edingtons



Arlo Channing Edington (1890-1953) and Carmen Ballen Edington (1894-1972) both worked in Hollywood before meeting, marrying, and collaborating on several mystery novels.



The House of the Vanishing Goblets



A Hollywood production company has found the perfect location for their action film, a rambling old mansion, abandoned and atmospheric, but they've stumbled into a quagmire of death and mystery.


(The Edingtons based their memorable House of the Vanishing Goblets on the famous Winchester house, where the superstitious widow of the famed firearms inventor continued to build rooms and staircases to appease the spirits.)


A detective is called in, but can he find his way through the maze of rooms and suspects?


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Henry Ware Eliot, Jr.



Henry Ware Eliot, Jr. (1879-1947) was a writer an archeologist. (His younger brother was poet T. S. Eliot.) The Rumble Murders was originally published under the pseudonym Mason Deal.



The Rumble Murders



When George Gaynleigh, author and “spasmodic” detective novelist , arrives in the wealthy and seemingly contented suburban development of Randall Green as a guest of his friend Ed Marsh, he little suspects that he will soon be embroiled in a crime problem more intricate than anything he ever dared put down on paper. A person or persons unknown has picked up a nasty habit of shooting men and then stashing their stripped bodies in the rumble seats of local cars—most emphatically not a practice calculated to heighten property values! Soon Gaynleigh joins a neighborhood “homicide squad”—comprised of himself, Ed, a journalist and, wonder of wonders, an actual detective—which tries, with help from Ed’s winsome wife, Jeanie, to crack a fiendishly complex murder case.


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Curtis Evans



Curtis Evans is a historian specializing in the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. Numerous print editions of Coachwhip reprints (and those by other publishers) include his bibliographic introductions.



Clues and Corpses



Clues and Corpses investigates the life and genre writing of Oklahoma Choctaw detective novelist Todd Downing (1902-1974). Included in this volume are nearly 300 annotated mystery book reviews from the 1930s by Downing and Downing’s essay “Murder is a Rather Serious Business” (1943), as well as analysis of Downing’s own detective fiction, most of which is set in Mexico. A biography of Downing provides details on his life at home and in academia. Preface by Bill Pronzini.


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The Spectrum of English Murder



That British mysteries from the Golden Age of detective fiction (customarily defined as the period between the First and Second World Wars) were not only aesthetically but ideologically conservative has long been a commonplace of mystery genre criticism. In The Spectrum of English Murder, Curtis Evans challenges this view by looking at the detective fiction of Henry Lancelot Aubrey-Fletcher and G. D. H. and Margaret Cole, a trio of popular British crime writers from the Golden Age. Although Aubrey-Fletcher, a Great War veteran and member of his country’s traditional gentry elite, and the Coles, prominent socialist intellectuals, wrote about fictional murder from polar points of the political spectrum, the detective fiction of all three authors is alike in that it often defies conventional expectations of between-the-wars British mystery writing.


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