The Red Paste Murders

The Red Paste Murders
Author: Arthur Gask
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2023-02-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1479461245

Arthur Gask (1869–1951) was an Australian dentist and novelist. He began writing crime fiction while waiting for his patients, and in 1921 he paid for the publication of his first novel, The Secret of the Sandhills, which was an immediate success. Over the next thirty years, Gask wrote more than thirty books and contributed a series of popular short stories to The Mail in Adelaide. Most of his novels described the activities of a detective, Gilbert Larose, in solving crimes.

Murder!

Murder!
Author: John Arnold
Publisher:
Total Pages: 326
Release: 1926
Genre:
ISBN:

Australian Crime Fiction

Australian Crime Fiction
Author: Stephen Knight
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2018-06-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1476670862

Australian crime fiction has grown from the country's origins as an 18th-century English prison colony. Early stories focused on escaped convicts becoming heroic bush rangers, or how the system mistreated those who were wrongfully convicted. Later came thrillers about wealthy free settlers and lawless gold-seekers, and urban crime fiction, including Fergus Hume's 1887 international best-seller The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, set in Melbourne. The 1980s saw a surge of private-eye thrillers, popular in a society skeptical of police. Twenty-first century authors have focused on policemen--and increasingly policewomen--and finally indigenous crime narratives. The author explores in detail this rich but little known national subgenre.

Murder in the Night

Murder in the Night
Author: Arthur Gask
Publisher: e-artnow
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2020-11-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Peter Wacks was an unimpressive and weak man until he came across a mysterious "red paste." Suddenly, from a harmless being, he turned into a ruthless and cold-blooded killer! Like Jekyll and Hyde, he goes on a murder rampage in the night and during daytime becomes a detective to find the so-called murderer. Will Peter be able to outwit himself and stop his descent into chaos and madness? Or will he succumb under his negative self?_x000D_ Excerpt:_x000D_ "I shall never know what dreadful impulse compels me to write it all down. My life is so many, many times forfeit to the State that were my hideous secret to become known, even now, after all these years, within an hour infuriated crowds would gather at my gate and I should be torn limb from limb without the slightest hope of mercy or reprieve. I shall never be forgiven. My crimes were too brutal. I spared neither young nor old, and every deed of violence that could bring pain and horror it was fiendish joy to do..."

Murder in the Night (Musaicum Vintage Mysteries)

Murder in the Night (Musaicum Vintage Mysteries)
Author: Arthur Gask
Publisher: e-artnow
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2021-05-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Peter Wacks was an unimpressive and weak man until he came across a mysterious "red paste." Suddenly, from a harmless being, he turned into a ruthless and cold-blooded killer! Like Jekyll and Hyde, he goes on a murder rampage in the night and during daytime becomes a detective to find the so-called murderer. Will Peter be able to outwit himself and stop his descent into chaos and madness? Or will he succumb under his negative self? Excerpt: "I shall never know what dreadful impulse compels me to write it all down. My life is so many, many times forfeit to the State that were my hideous secret to become known, even now, after all these years, within an hour infuriated crowds would gather at my gate and I should be torn limb from limb without the slightest hope of mercy or reprieve. I shall never be forgiven. My crimes were too brutal. I spared neither young nor old, and every deed of violence that could bring pain and horror it was fiendish joy to do..."

Mystery Fanfare

Mystery Fanfare
Author: Michael L. Cook
Publisher: Popular Press
Total Pages: 456
Release: 1983
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780879722302

This work is a composite index of the complete runs of all mystery and detective fan magazines that have been published, through 1981. Added to it are indexes of many magazines of related nature. This includes magazines that are primarily oriented to boys' book collecting, the paperbacks, and the pulp magazine hero characters, since these all have a place in the mystery and detective genre.

The Single Heart

The Single Heart
Author: Annie Edith Foster Jameson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1924
Genre: Single women
ISBN:

The Safety Pin

The Safety Pin
Author: Joseph Smith Fletcher
Publisher: Castrovilli Giuseppe
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1924
Genre:
ISBN:

Murder on the Red Cliff Rez

Murder on the Red Cliff Rez
Author: Mardi Oakley Medawar
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2002-06-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 031220938X

When a Chippewa tribal attorney turns up murdered in his office, Police Chief David Lameraux joins forces with Karen "Tracker" Charboneau to find the suspect.