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The Dream Doctor – ebook
Arthur B. Reeve
Professor Craig Kennedy is a scientist detective at Columbia University. He uses his knowledge of chemistry and psychoanalysis to solve cases, and uses exotic devices in his work such as lie detectors, gyroscopes, and portable seismographs. In this book Kennedy and Jameson (newspaper reporter) help Carton, the District Attorney, unravel a tangled web of corruption and criminal activity in their fair...Data dostępności:
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The „Canary” Murder Case – ebook
S.S. Van Dine
One of the best novels by the little American detective writer Van Dyne, The Canary Killing Case, takes the reader to New York sixty years ago, where amateur detective Filo Vance, a literary relative of Sherlock Holmes, brilliantly uses the deductive method to find the killer of the „star” Broadway at night nicknamed Canary.Data dostępności:
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The Kennel Murder Case – ebook
S.S. Van Dine
Vance, an independently wealthy college educator, amateur detective, uses his deductive skills and psychological knowledge to help his friend New York County Attorney solve the murder of Archer Coe. At first he thought of suicide when Coe’s body was found in a room locked from the inside with all the windows closed. As usual, the action takes place in New York. Vance’s methods are unconventional and...Data dostępności:
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The Casino Murder Case – ebook
S.S. Van Dine
Independent, rich, educated, amateur detective, Vance uses his deductive skills and psychological knowledge to help his friend, New York County Attorney, solve the murder and attempt to poison others. The killer laid an intricate conspiracy that Vance cannot solve. As usual, the action takes place in New York. Vance’s methods are unconventional and run counter to the more stringent police investigation...Data dostępności:
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And Still I Cheat the Gallows – ebook
E. Phillips Oppenheim
A series of stories telling about the graceful crimes of a high class robber, a forger, a robber, a murderer. Stories in each of which are the same criminal, but under different names travels around the world, assuming new identities, avoiding militias and theft of fate. In one story, he helps the British intelligence in restoring critical documents from a foreign state. In another, he uses his skills...Data dostępności:
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Jimmie Dale and Blue Envelope Murder – ebook
Frank L. Packard
A Canadian novelist Frank Lucius Packard (1877-1942) wrote about 30 thrillers including ones with the character Jimmie Dale, aka Gray Seal and Smarlinghue, a safecracking Robin Hood who uses his criminal talents to right wrongs, save lives and reputations, and expose wrongdoers to the light of day. „Jimmie Dale and Blue Envelope Murder” is №4 and the last book in the Gray Seal series. In it, Jimmie...Data dostępności:
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The Shakespeare Murders – ebook
A.G. Macdonell
An amusing thriller by A.G. Macdonell, one of six mysteries he wrote under the pseudonym Neil Gordon. Macdonell is best known for the gently satirical novel „England, Their England”, which appeared the same year as „The Shakespeare Murders” and enjoyed a great success, which probably led to his abandoning the mystery genre. In „The Shakespeare Murders”, the treasure was to be found in an English country...Data dostępności:
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Guy Garrick – ebook
Arthur B. Reeve
Newspaperman Walter Jameson is assigned to shadow his friend Professor Craig Kennedy for a month to report on how he solves mysterious crimes and to give „an intimate picture of the man and his work.” Basically, Kennedy’s a scientist who uses his superior scientific knowledge and a bunch of contraptions he makes to expose the criminals. „The Dream Doctor” is the third book in the Dr. Kennedy series...Data dostępności:
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The Social Gangster – ebook
Arthur B. Reeve
The fifth volume in the chronicles of Craig Kennedy, scientific detective, takes up the familiar and successful formula for a new round of adventures. Craig Kennedy continues to amaze with his usual sorts of crimes – jewel theft, missing persons, wrongly accused suspects, fixed horse races, arson, murder, and blackmail – but he uses scientific procedures to analyze the evidence, sometimes involving...Data dostępności:
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The Silent Bullet – ebook
Arthur B. Reeve
Enter an American Sherlock Holmes solving crimes in the early twentieth century. Craig Kennedy is a Columbia University chemistry professor by day and New York’s premier sleuth by night. With the help of his roommate and partner in detection, newspaper reporter Walter Jameson, Kennedy uses his mastery of technology to solve the most puzzling of mysteries. It is interesting to see the different cases...Data dostępności:
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