11 Books by John Russell Fearn
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Overview: A prolific author in various genres under his own name, John Francis Russell Fearn also used these pseudonyms: Astron del Martia, Brian Shaw, Conrad G. Holt, Dennis Clive, Frank Jones, Geoffrey Armstrong, Griff, Hugo Blayn, John Russell, K. Thomas Mark Denholm, Paul Lorraine, Polton Cross, Spike Gordon, Thornton Ayre, Vargo Statten, Volsted Gridban, Dom Passante, John Cotton, Ephriam Winiki, Lawrence F. Rose, Earl Titan, Ephraim Winiki.
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
A Case for Brutus Lloyd
Dr. Brutus Lloyd is no more than four feet ten inches tall, an amazingly gnome-like man. He’s not a dwarf, simply vest-pocket size. His head has a brow like a baby cliff, capped by a tuft of jet-black hair that curled down the immense forehead. His face, though overbalanced by the brow, is powerful for all its smallness. The most surprising thing about him is his deep bass voice. A brilliant scientist and criminologist, his unorthodox methods in combating criminals sometimes causes consternation to Inspector Branson of the New York City Police. Branson never quite knows how to take his extraordinary scientific ideas—but he knows better than to ignore them, because they were invariably right!
Four classic scientific mystery tales from the era of the pulp magazines.
Flashpoint (1950)
You are all in danger…
Gordon Drew’s return to his home town coincides with a baffling series of fires and murders. Drew finds himself secretary to a Dr. Carruthers, an eccentric scientist and investigator, who helps the police solve the mystery of the fires. Meanwhile, Superintendent Denning’s methodical investigations lead him to the arsonist. However, when he also discovers a ruthless murderer who exploits science to dazzling effect in his crimes, it is Dr. Carruthers who excels and helps Denning bring justice to the criminal.
From Afar (1982)
Richard Shaw thinks he’s been blessed when he and his new bride Beryl survive a car smash. Both make rapid recoveries from their injuries, both have apparently fully recovered. But Beryl is strangely changed. As the doctor tells Richard: "As far as we can tell medically, she is normal again, except for one thing—the way she looks at you. I don’t think I have ever seen such a strange light in the eyes of a woman before!" Despite Beryl’s odd, even sinister, new mental outlook, Richard buys an isolated house in the country—at his wife’s insistence—and tries to pursue a normal married life. And then the murders begin….
Pattern of Murder
For cinema projectionist Sid Elbridge, it seems that things can’t get much worse. First, circumstantial evidence has made him the prime suspect in the police investigation of a robbery at the cinema where he works. Secondly, his fiancée Vera has been horribly killed in the same theatre, victim of a falling light fixture. Then he discovers strange, intricate patterns traced in the dust on the wooden frame of a still-case. There’s something very wrong about this "accident," he now realizes, and begins investigating what actually happened.
Slowly he realizes that a ruthless murderer is lurking in the shadows, and only Sid can uncover the Pattern of Murder!
Reflected Glory
When rising young artist Clive Hexley, R.A., vanishes, his friends suspect foul play. Chief-Inspector Calthorp of Scotland Yard is called upon to look into the disappearance, and his investigations lead him to question Hexley’s ex-fiancée, Elsa Farraday. Farraday writes horror-tinged mysteries under a pseudonym, and lives by herself in an old house in the English countryside. She eventually confesses that she murdered the artist and threw his body into a swamp. But the girl’s odd, even peculiar mannerisms puzzle Calthorp, and he hesitates to make an arrest when no trace of Hexley’s body can be found—or even any proof of his death. Ultimately, he calls in Dr. Adam Castle, the redoubtable psychiatrist and investigator, to help solve the case. Is Elsa a cold-blooded murderer mining her own crimes for her lurid novels? Or is she just an unfortunate "lost soul" who was in the wrong place at the wrong time?
Robbery Without Violence
In "Robbery Without Violence," gold worth fifty million pounds vanishes overnight from an impregnable bank vault, Chief Inspector Hargraves of Scotland Yard finds himself completely baffled. And when the owner of the bank then dies under mysterious circumstances, Hargraves is again spurred to seek outside help from scientist Sawley Garson, a specialist in solving "impossible" crimes. But can even he explain the inexplicable? Also included in this collection is "Death at the Observatory." Two baffling science fiction crime stories by a master of the classic mystery tale.
The Crimson Rambler (1947)
When Warner Darnworth is shot through the back of his head in his study while seated at his desk, Chief Inspector Gossage is called in to investigate. But the study door is securely locked on the inside with the only key, the closed window is tamper-proof, no weapon can be found, the movement of everyone in the house has been accounted for, and there are no traces of footprints in the garden outside. In other words, it’s an impossible crime. Gossage finds plenty of family skeletons and motives that might have caused Darnworth’s murder. But who actually killed the man—and more to the point, how? A classic locked-room mystery.
The Empty Coffins
In the village of Payling, England, the bodies of a farmer and builder are found drained of blood, their throats slashed with two deep puncture wounds over the jugular veins. The local police call in Scotland Yard, but they make little progress—until Peter Malden begins to suspect some sinister connection with the death of his wife Elsie’s first husband, George, who’s supposedly committed suicide. But Elsie herself is foully murdered in the same way as the others—and her coffin, like George’s, is found to be empty! Is there a vampire at work in Payling? A gripping mystery-horror tale by a master storyteller.
The Silvered Cage
For an illusionist to make a woman vanish from a cage is merely a parlor trick, because the person must go somewhere; but in this instance the woman really DOES disappear, in full view of an audience, and cannot be found afterwards. This seeming impossibility is the commencement of a completely baffling puzzle, which even Scotland Yard finds hard to crack. And then the magician himself is found murdered in his flat, lending credence to the notion that the woman has also been killed. Scotland Yard enlists the aid of the indomitable Dr. Carruthers, a genius who specializes in solving scientific puzzles. But can Carruthers unravel the diabolical plot—or will The Silvered Cage, a solid metal structure allowing neither entry nor exit, continue to contain its mystery? A scientific detective thriller with several exciting plot twists!
Within That Room!
Dick opened the door again swiftly, Vera clinging to him—and they were so astounded at what they saw that he forgot for the moment to slam the door shut again. For the phantom was there—clearly visible in the sunlight, which now blazed across the upper half of the great window. A strange, incredible caricature of a being hung in the dusty air, a haze of blurry light surrounding it from the back. There was the pointed tail, the simian ears, the long needle-chinned face, bent arms flexed as though to pounce forward. He seemed to be grinning horribly. Yet he was in mid-air and through him the ancient stone wall could be distinctly seen. This was the ghost—the horror—that everyone knows haunts Sunny Acres Castle, the house that Vera Grantham has just inherited from her late uncle. Together with her boyfriend, Dick Wilmott, she must uncover the secret behind the mansion—a secret worth killing for! A great mystery in the classic British tradition.
Account Settled (1949)
When financier Emerson Drew’s hired killer pushes scientist-inventor Rajek Quinton down an abandoned mineshaft, Drew and his conspirators believe that the way’s clear to exploit Quinton’s amazing new invention, which will make them millions. But he reckons without Larry Clark of the C.I.D.—plus Quinton’s uncanny scientific genius. The police detective, aided by Drew’s secretary Joyce Sutton, forges a chain of evidence to send Drew and his cohorts to their doom. But who is Joyce Sutton, really? And what about Quinton himself: did he actually die in the deep, mud-filled pit shaft, or has he somehow survived to exact a horrible vengeance on those who exploited him? A thrill-a-minute mystery, capped by an astonishing denouement!
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