The Ghost Murder. (1937)
WHAT THIS STORY
IS ABOUT
In his new role of thriller-writer,
Luke Allan threatens to eclipse the Luke Allan of ‘Western’ fame. Blue Pete—Half-Breed, The Blue Wolf and The Lone Trail are cowboy
stories which remain evergreen in the public memory, but The Man on the Twenty-Fourth Floor, which appeared last season, and The Ghost Murder are
thrillers that must steal much of the thunder of his earlier successes.
The Ghost Murder tells how a bogus invitation sent eleven ill-assorted people to
a gloomy house on a desolate island: how murder was committed, and how any one
of those present might well have struck the death blow.
It is an excellent thriller in which
the element of mystery is admirably sustained.
By the Same Author
THE MAN ON THE TWENTY-FOURTH FLOOR
On the twenty-fourth floor of the Transit Building
Gloucester
Citizen: “From the first page one is conscious
of an atmosphere of suspense and mystery which holds good throughout the book.
... A first class thriller.” 7s. 6d. net
“Hall” Ridout comes into some money,
and he and Milly Boyle leave America
and take a villa in Mallorca . Later they move
to San Semola, where they meet Virginia Crossen and Standish Burnham—and trouble.
Claude
Maughan, an Englishman, finding his late uncle has been swindled in a Canadian
land deal, sets out to punish the land agent, Daniel Corfield. As soon as he arrives
at Medicine Hat
A story of the
great North-West, which grips the interest and thrills the reader until the
last page, when the terrifying howl of the Blue Wolf is stilled. 1s. 0d. net
Another
novel of the great North-West. In this story Luke Allan gives us the delightful
little tenderfoot journalist, Morton Standford, who blunders into a drama full
of thrills and incident. 2s. 6d. net
The story of
Blue Pete and his favourite horse, Whiskers, of the rustlers, the
quick-shooting cowboys and the Royal North-West Mounted Police, is full of thrills
and hairbreadth escapes. 2s. 6d. net
Blue Pete, half-breed,
cowboy-rustler-detective, did not die after all. On the contrary, he lived to
enjoy many thrilling adventures with his little horse, Whiskers. 2s. 6d. net
Blue Pete is
a fascinating character: you never know what he is going to do next. As a
detective he was the terror of all wrong-doers, and there wasn’t much that he
would miss with a revolver. A book of breathless excitement and adventure. 2s.
6d. net
No comments:
Post a Comment