The late afternoon sky flaunted its splendour of blue and gold like a banner over the Pacific, across whose depths the trade wind droned in measured cadence. On the ocean's wide expanse a hulk wallowed sluggishly, the forgotten relict of a once brave and sightly ship, possibly the Sphinx of some untold ocean tragedy, she lay black and forbidding in the ordered procession of waves. Half a mile to the east of the derelict hovered a ship's cutter, the turn of her crew's heads speaking expectancy. As far again beyond, the United States cruiser Wolverine outlined her severe and trim silhouette...
The late afternoon sky flaunted its splendour of blue and gold like a banner over the Pacific, across whose depths the trade wind droned in measured c...
A rare mystery magazine returns in this facsimile edition, loaded with fiction. Alibi was developed as a magazine to be sold exclusively in Woolworth department stories. Only five issues were published of this unusual magazine. Terror Beach by Samuel Hopkins Adams The Zeppelin Murders (part 1 of 2) by H. Thompson Rich Written in Blood by H. L. Gates Frozen Faces and the Nickel by George Kibbee Turner Snatched by Wallace Jackson The Eight O'Clock Alibi by Herbert Corey Heater Pete and the Hillbilly by M. C. Blackman Club of the Three Gloves by Albert E. Ullman The Body on the Blacony by Arlton...
A rare mystery magazine returns in this facsimile edition, loaded with fiction. Alibi was developed as a magazine to be sold exclusively in Woolworth ...
New York-born writer Samuel Hopkins Adams got his literary start in the rough-and-tumble world of investigative journalism. Some of his most famous exposes uncovered the seamy underbelly of patent medicines and faith healing. Adams skillfully weaves his own experiences into the tightly plotted novel The Clarion, producing a compelling look at life in early-twentieth-century America.
New York-born writer Samuel Hopkins Adams got his literary start in the rough-and-tumble world of investigative journalism. Some of his most famous ex...
