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THE COMPLEAT ADVENTURES OF BILL BRENT: THE LORA LORNE MYSTERIES.
[Shelbourne, ONT, Sauk City, WI]: The Battered Silicon Dispatch Box, 2004. Large octavo, cloth. First edition. Compiled and edited by Robert Weinberg. Collects fifteen stories all first published in Dime Detective Magazine. Bill Brent, crime reporter, is writing a advice to the lovelorn column as Lora Lorne, mysteries ensue.
DEEP LAY THE DEAD.
Garden City: Published For The Crime Club, Inc. by Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1942. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Mystery novel. "A memorable non-series book...fashioned around the classic mystery situation of murder and intrigue among a group of people trapped in a snowbound country house." - - Reilly, Twentieth-Century Crime and Mystery Writers (1980), pp. 441-444. Frederick Davis was a prolific author writing at least 1000 pulp stories, including many Operator 5 stories as Curtis Steele. He was also a contributor to Black Mask and Dime Detective pulp magazines. "Davis's fiction was among the most literate and entertaining of its day and stands up well to the test of time." - Reilly, Twentieth-Century Crime and Mystery Writers (1980), pp. 441-444. [Reference: Hubin, p. 217].
DETOUR TO OBLIVION.
Garden City: Published For The Crime Club, Inc. by Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1947. Octavo, cloth. First edition. A Professor Cyrus Hatch novel. Frederick Davis was a prolific author writing at least 1000 pulp stories, including many Operator 5 stories as Curtis Steele. He was also a contributor to Black Mask and Dime Detective pulp magazines. "Davis's fiction was among the most literate and entertaining of its day and stands up well to the test of time." - Reilly, Twentieth-Century Crime and Mystery Writers (1980), pp. 441-444. [Reference: Hubin, p. 217].
THE SHROUD OFF HER BACK.
Garden City, New York: Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1953. Octavo, boards. First edition. Mystery.