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Bangkok, rich in history and spirituality, crowded with temples, markets and canals, is also a city shrouded in shadows. Polluted, corrupt, infamous as the sex capital of ...
May, 1937, and London prepares to crown a new king. Bestselling writer Josephine Tey is in town to oversee a BBC radio production of her play, Queen of Scots - but adulter...
The first case in the hitherto unreported criminal inquiries of the firm of Wracke & Rheuwin, Private Investigators. (Will certain eminent groups of devotees chuckle with ...
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1960s spy spoof in which a British master spy smuggles a ton or rocket fuel out of Czechoslovakia, under the noses of the enemy.
It is possible to suggest that Her Britannic Majesty’s Foreign Office was moved more by ancestral instinct than by its computers in selecting Sir Vyvyan Bultivant, to be t...
Jacob Hay gives a sly nod to Jeeves and Wooster with his classic crime tale of a butler, a dim-witted master – and murder!
Originally published in the May, 1969 issue of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, here is a classic spy spoof by Jacob Hay.
Isaac Stoltzfuss had seen many changes and put up with much since his boyhood on the Stoltzfuss family farm. But the Russian satellite, as described in the pages of the La...
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