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Here Today and Gone Tomorrow

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Here Today and Gone Tomorrow

eBook Details

Title:

Here Today and Gone Tomorrow

Author:

Bromfield, Louis

Published:

1934

Publisher:

P. F. Collier & Son Corporation

Tags:

fiction

Description:

Short Novels

Format:

PDF

Pages:

358

Bromfield, Louis:

Louis Bromfield (December 27, 1896 – March 18, 1956) was an American author and conservationist who gained international recognition, winning the Pulitzer Prize and pioneering innovative scientific farming concepts.

One of Mansfield’s most famous natives, he made his home at Malabar Farm, near Lucas, Ohio, from 1939 until his death in 1956. Bromfield was friends with some of the most celebrated personalities of his era, including famous architect F. F. Schnitzer. Malabar Farm was the location for the wedding of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall.

After serving with the American Field Service in World War I and being awarded the Croix de Guerre and the Legion of Honor, he returned to New York City and found work as a reporter. In 1924, his first novel, “The Green Bay Tree”, won instant acclaim. He won the 1927 Pulitzer Prize for best novel for Early Autumn. All of his 30 books were best-sellers, and many, such as The Rains Came and Mrs. Parkington, were made into successful motion pictures. Source: Wikipedia

Louis Bromfield was a Midwestern-American writer and farmer whose wide-ranging career, straddling the literary, the commercial, and the agricultural, spanned over four decades from 1920-1956. Despite his early promise, gaining accolades such as the Pulitzer Prize (1927), the O Henry Memorial Short Story Award (1927), nomination to Vanity Fair’s Hall of Fame (1927), and membership to America’s National Institute of Arts and Letters (1928), Bromfield started to lose critical favour in the 1930s. Source: Literary Encyclopedia

The Copper Bullet

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The Copper Bullet

eBook Details

Title:

The Copper Bullet

Author:

Fearn, John Russell

Published:

1954

Publisher:

Vargo Statten British Science Fiction Magazine

Tags:

fiction, mystery, science fiction, short story

Description:

Dr. Henry Bland, chief of the Atomic Research Centre, has been experiencing headaches. He is found in his office, slumped over his desk, with a hole in his head, possibly a gunshot wound; but are the clues straightforward?

Format:

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Fearn, John Russell

John Russell Fearn (1908–1960) was a British author and one of the first British writers to appear in American pulp science fiction magazines. Prolific author, he published his novels also as Vargo Statten and with various pseudonyms such as Thornton Ayre, Polton Cross, Geoffrey Armstrong, John Cotton, Dennis Clive, Ephriam Winiki, Astron Del Martia and others.

Fearn was a prolific writer who wrote Westerns and crime fiction as well as science fiction. His writing appeared under numerous pseudonyms. He wrote series like Adam Quirke, Clayton Drew, Golden Amazon, and Herbert. At times these drew on the pulp traditions of Edgar Rice Burroughs. His work received praise for its vividness, but criticism, being deemed “unpolished”.

The Young Lion Hunter

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The Young Lion Hunter

eBook Details

Title:

The Young Lion Hunter

Author:

Grey, Zane

Author:

Chase, Joseph Cummings

Published:

1911

Publisher:

Grosset & Dunlap

Tags:

fiction, nature

language:

English

Format:

PDF

Pages:

101

Grey, Zane:

Zane Grey, author of over 90 novels, is best known for his best-selling book “Riders of the Purple Sage”. Writing from personal knowledge of the western United States, his western novels feature fishing and hunting, along with horse and cattle rustling, water wars and land speculation. His novels and story lines became the source of 112 movies, several feature comic books, serial magazine articles, and the TV series “Zane Grey Theater”. In other endeavors, Zane Grey was an avid sports fisherman, writing many books on the subject, and he participated in the development of sports fishing clubs in the U.S., Canada, New Zealand and Australia.

Moon Heaven

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Moon Heaven

eBook Details

Title:

Moon Heaven

Author:

Fearn, John Russell

Illustrator:

Paul, Frank Rudolph

Published:

1939

Publisher:

Science Fiction

Tags:

fiction, science fiction, short story

Description:

A meteor disables a small ship of the void, and Brig Dean is forced to land his party on a wild, unexplored satellite! But their safety seems assured—until the primeval inhabitants begin to resent the presence of Earthmen.

Format:

PDF

Pages:

Fearn, John Russell:

Golden Lightning

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Golden Lightning

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Title:

Golden Lightning

Author:

Faust, Frederick Schiller

Published:

1931

Publisher:

Dodd, Mead & Company

Tags:

fiction, western

Description:

Menneval, the most feared killer in Alaska, had sent Lefty Bill Ranger all the way to California looking for two men. Their names were Peter and Oliver Crosson, father and son. Menneval just wanted information—he said. But when Lefty got to where the Crossons were supposed to be, nobody could tell him anything about them. Then he stumbled upon them himself and became involved in a fantastic adventure. There was death in the air and blood on the wind, and at the last moment—there was Menneval, in person, come to seal his bargain.

Format:

PDF

Pages:

196

Faust, Frederick Schiller

Frederick Schiller Faust aka Frank Austin, George Owen Baxter, Walter C Butler, George Challis, Evan Evans, Frederick Faust, John Frederick, Frederick Frost, David Manning, Peter Henry Morland, Max Brand…

Max Brand, one of America’s most popular and prolific novelists and author of such enduring works as Destry Rides Again and the Doctor Kildare stories, died on the Italian front in 1944.

“No pulp writer was more prolific than Frederick Faust, who wrote nearly 15 million words under the pen name of Max Brand and seventeen others. He sold all his stories and sometimes wrote complete issues of Western Story Magazine. But Faust’s most famous character was not a Western hero but a doctor—Dr. Kildare—who inspired a film of the same name plus fifteen sequels and a television series starring Richard Chamberlain.” (The Incredible Pulps: A Gallery of Fiction Magazine Art, c. 2006, p. 11).

The Red Lamp

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The Red Lamp

eBook Details

Title:

The Red Lamp

Author:

Rinehart, Mary Roberts

Published:

1914

Publisher:

Grosset & Dunlap

Tags:

fiction, mystery

Description:

Originally published in 1925, this entry in the American Mystery Classics series from Rinehart (1876–1958) showcases her extraordinary gift for sustaining high levels of tension. The plot is recounted through diary entries made in 1922 by William Porter, a literature professor, who inherited a large house near the town of Oakville from his uncle Horace.

Format:

PDF

Pages:

233

Rinehart, Mary Roberts:

Mary Roberts Rinehart (August 12, 1876–September 22, 1958) was an American writer, often called the American Agatha Christie. Rinehart published her first mystery novel The Circular Staircase in 1908, which introduced the “had I but known” narrative style. Rinehart is also considered the source of “the butler did it” plot device in her novel The Door (1930), although the exact phrase does not appear in her work.

Little Death

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Little Death

eBook Details

Title:

Little Death

Author:

Marshall, Edison

Published:

1920

Publisher:

Blue Book Magazine

Tags:

animals, fiction, short story

Description:

This story was extracted from The Blue Book Magazine, Oct 1920 issue. It tells the story of a mink named Little Death, following his interactions with a farmer, and assorted forest creatures.

Format:

PDF

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Marshall, Edison:

The interestingly named Edison Tesla Marshall was born on August 28, 1894 in Rensselaer, Indiana and died on October 29, 1967 in Augusta, Georgia. He grew up in Medford, Oregon and attended the University of Oregon from 1913 to 1916. He was a novelist and short story writer, mainly of historical fiction and science fiction, and a big game hunter. His popular adventure stories appeared in Harper’s Bazaar, Good Housekeeping, and Reader’s Digest. He won the O. Henry Award in 1921. His novel The Isle of Retribution was made into a silent film of the same name in 1926. Other of his novels became the 1942 film, Son of Fury, with Tyrone Power, the 1954 Yankee Pasha, starring Mamie Van Doren, and in 1958, The Vikings with Kirk Douglas.

The Dumb Gods Speak

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The Dumb Gods Speak

eBook Details

Title:

The Dumb Gods Speak

Author:

Oppenheim, E. Phillips

Published:

1936

Publisher:

Little, Brown, and Company

Tags:

fiction

Description:

The scene opens in Nice in 1947 where an extraordinary young Chinaman named Cheng, assisted by Mark Humberstone, the son of a great American inventor, has set up an International Bureau of Espionage, with an observatory and the most powerful wireless station in the world. Humberstone’s father died, leaving the new powers which he had created in the hands of seven men, one of them his son, all pledged never to make use of these powers except for the holy purpose of proving to the world, by illustration, that war between the nations is no longer a possible enterprise.Mark wanted to end war, but Cheng wanted also to restore his own country to its former power and to return Russia to monarchical government. In the meantime, in London, a so-called Triumvirate, employed by the Dictator of Russia, plotted Cheng’s death. The Bureau’s plans were ambitious and amazing. To accomplish these plans Mark and Cheng were prepared to defy all laws and to overcome all obstacles.

Format:

PDF

Pages:

241

Oppenheim, E. Phillips:

E. Phillips Oppenheim, in full Edward Phillips Oppenheim (born Oct. 22, 1866, London, Eng.—died Feb. 3, 1946, St. Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands, U.K.), internationally popular British author of novels and short stories dealing with international espionage and intrigue.

After leaving school at age 17 to help in his father’s leather business, Oppenheim wrote in his spare time. His first novel, Expiation (1887), and subsequent thrillers caught the fancy of a wealthy New York businessman who bought out the leather business at the turn of the century and made Oppenheim a high-salaried director. He was thus freed to devote the major part of his time to writing. The novels, volumes of short stories, and plays that followed, totaling more than 150, were peopled with sophisticated heroes, adventurous spies, and dashing noblemen. Among his well-known works are The Long Arm of Mannister (1910), The Moving Finger (1911), and The Great Impersonation (1920).–Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Dead or Alive

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Dead or Alive

eBook Details

Title:

Dead or Alive

Author:

Faust, Frederick Schiller

Published:

1932

Publisher:

Dodd, Mead and Company, Inc.

Tags:

fiction, western

Description:

His name was Lanky. He was a saddle tramp who turned up at the Porson ranch looking for a meal and stayed to stick his nose in the trouble between Dan Porson and the Acker brothers.

Format:

PDF

Pages:

176

Faust, Frederick Schiller:

Max Brand, one of America’s most popular and prolific novelists and author of such enduring works as Destry Rides Again and the Doctor Kildare stories, died on the Italian front in 1944.

The Icepick Artists

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The Icepick Artists

eBook Details

Title:

The Icepick Artists

Author:

Kane, Frank

Published:

1953

Publisher:

Flying Eagle Publications Inc.

Tags:

detective, fiction, mystery, short story, Fictional character

Description:

There was only one trouble with the case when Liddell took it. The guy he replaced had just been murdered.

Format:

PDF

Pages:

Kane, Frank:

Frank Kane was born on July 19, 1912 in Brooklyn, New York. He quit law school to get a job because he was starting a family. He worked variously as an editor, in public relations for the liquor industry, and as a columnist publicizing movie stars visiting the city. He moved on to writing scripts for several radio crime shows, including The Shadow for six years. In 1947, he wrote his first crime novel featuring his signature private eye Johnny Liddell. Some 40 Johnny Liddell novels and many Liddell short stories for the pulps followed. Johnny Liddell has been described as an enjoyably generic 1950s hardboiled detective who did not age with time but rather changed with the tastes of his readers. Kane also wrote for television and worked on the series Special Agent 7, The Investigators, and Mike Hammer. He died unexpectedly on November 29, 1968 at the age of 56 in Manhasset, New York.