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  • The Sherlock Holmes Stories of Edward D. Hoch

    by Edward D. Hoch ...
    A dozen marvelous tales of deduction, featuring history's most famous detective, by Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Edward D. Hoch.In a heavily mortgaged country house, an heiress's sinister guardian attempts to trap her in a bedroom with a rare Indian swamp adder—a murder averted only by the timely intervention of Sherlock Holmes. Five months after the events of "The Adventure of the ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • The Night My Friend

    Stories of Crime and Suspense

    by Edward D. Hoch ...
    An incredible assortment of stories from one of history's masters of short fictionOn the morning of the merger, fog shrouds the offices of Jupiter Steel. On the twenty-first floor, the board of directors gathers to follow the commands of Billy Calm, an unequaled titan of finance. But a few minutes before the meeting, Calm jumps out a window. The chief of security rushes to the street, but where ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • The Spy and the Thief

    A Jeffery Rand and Nick Velvet Collection

    by Edward D. Hoch ...
    A double-barreled collection—two of Edward D. Hoch's most ingenious creationsIn the headquarters of Britain's Foreign Office, a secretary spies a television actor making a copy of a top-secret key. In an island republic, an intelligence operative is murdered just minutes before exposing a Communist mole. And in a bustling eastern city, the Cold War reaches a turning point over a piece of film the ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD

  • The Thefts of Nick Velvet

    Stories

    by Edward D. Hoch ...
    Thirteen stories of outrageous heists starring one smooth thief from the Edgar Award–winning author of The Shattered Raven.The dictator of the island of Jabali wants a baseball team, and he doesn't care how he gets it. He has assembled nine of the finest players on the island, and is about to hire Nick Velvet to steal him some competition. Ordinary thieves might not be up to pinching a whole ball ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • The Shattered Raven

    A Novel

    by Edward D. Hoch ...
    At a gathering of the nation's foremost mystery authors, death takes the stageDozens die each year for the sake of the annual Mystery Writers of America banquet. Heiresses are poisoned, captains of industry are stabbed, and private detectives are gunned down in the street. To mystery authors, these fictional murders are nothing but good fun. But at the annual presentation of the MWA's prestigious ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • Leopold's Way

    Detective Stories

    by Edward D. Hoch ...
    From the Edgar Award–winning author: A collection of short detective stories featuring baffling crimes and the brilliant sleuthing of Captain Leopold.On his way to the circus, a young boy named Tommy pauses for fifteen minutes in a grassy vacant lot. It begins to rain, and by the time the storm has passed, Tommy is dead in the tall grass, strangled with a strong piece of rope. Police suspicion ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • The Quests of Simon Ark

    And Other Stories

    by Edward D. Hoch ...
    When ancient evil emerges, it can only be stopped by a two-thousand-year-old sleuthTen years ago, Douglas Zadig emerged from the mist on an English moor, his clothes tattered, his speech slurred, and his mind completely blank. Since then, he has reinvented himself as an expert on good and evil, publishing book after book of a philosophy that is entirely lifted from the ancient writings of ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • The Night People

    And Other Stories

    by Edward D. Hoch ...
    Twenty tales of deceit, murder, and madness from the king of short mysteriesThey find the third body facedown in the wet grass, its head nearly split in half by the axe. The psychopath has claimed three in twenty-four hours—a sickening toll that forces the police department to let the aging Inspector Fleming stave off retirement for one more case. The cop races to catch the axe maniac before he ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD

  • The Heirs of Anthony Boucher

    A History of Mystery Fandom

    by Marvin Lachman ...
    The ultimate collection for mystery fansFollowing in the footsteps of those devoted to science fiction and works about Sherlock Holmes, general mystery fandom emerged in 1967 and has since thrived and become an international phenomenon. With its irresistible combination of puzzle-solving and the examination of the dark underbelly of humanity, crime fiction continues to fascinate and delight ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Future Is Ours: The Collected Science Fiction of Edward D. Hoch

    by Edward D. Hoch ...
    Edward D. Hoch was and is the undisputed master of the mystery short story. His total output of published short fiction hovers just under 1,000 stories (estimates are in the neighborhood of 960 stories). Hoch (pronounced "Hoke") is best remembered for his fair-play and impossible crime short stories, particularly the series featuring Dr. Sam Hawthorne, a small-town physician who unraveled ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • The Transvection Machine

    by Edward D. Hoch ...
    Series Book 1 - The Carl Crader Mysteries
    When a government official dies on the operating table, the president calls in the computer copsOn Venus, a radical exile escapes from a maximum-security prison, pledging to return to Washington and assassinate the president. Transport between Earth and the solar colonies is tightly regulated, but the exile knows a shortcut: the top-secret transvection machine, an experimental device that could ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • The Spy Who Read Latin: And Other Stories

    A Jeffery Rand Collection

    by Edward D. Hoch ...
    In the thick of the Cold War, a British spy will do anything to keep the peaceFather Howard steps off the plane in Albania, relieved to be out of China at last, but knowing that until he reaches Paris, he is not safe from the Communists. As he makes his way across the tarmac, two bullets strike him in the back of the head. The missionary is no more. The incident prompts an unprecedented meeting ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD