6 Books by Harry Stephen Keeler
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Overview: Born in Chicago in 1890, Keeler spent his childhood exclusively in this city, which was so beloved by the author that a large number of his works took place in and around it. Other locales for Keeler novels include New Orleans and New York. In his later works, Keeler’s settings are often more generic settings such as Big River, or a city in which all buildings and streets are either nameless or fictional. Keeler is known to have visited London at least once, but his occasional depictions of British characters are consistently implausible.
Genre: Mystery
The Washington Square Enigma
A dash from an empty house at the sight of a murdered man with a dragon-topped hatpin protruding from one eye! An escape from the police on the back of a speeding roadster. The discovery that its driver, a curly-haired, beautiful girl, clutches in one hand the headless body of that same fatal dragon-topped hatpin!
This is the first climax of breathless action that winds about the figure of Ford Harling, penniless derelict in Chicago, and plunges him into the heart of another famous web-work plot of Harry Stephen Keeler. He is caught in a maelstrom of circumstances that whirl about a stolen ruby, counterfeit bills, a nocturnal visit to a cemetery, and a peculiarly baffling murder involving a lovely heiress.
It is the fastest-moving mystery ever written by Harry Stephen Keeler, expert in bafflement and tantalizing clues.
The Spectacles of Mr. Cagliostro
This is one of Mr. Keeler’s finest mystery novels, developing his ‘Webwork plot’ construction – an intricate edifice built up on one of the most startling and ingenious ideas in mystery literature.
Through the diabolical scheme to separate a man from his inheritance, Mr. Keeler throws a fascinating sidelight upon a criminal use of modern psychology.
Real—thrilling mystery—told by a master of mystery stories.
The Riddle of the Yellow Zuri
Here is fiction that is stranger than truth. It contains one of the most perplexing and labyrinthine mysteries ever conceived by the human mind.
In the open market in Chicago, a tiger snake could have been bought by a circus for $10. But the particular snake for which Jake Jennings was willing to pay a small fortune was the key to a great mystery.
The grand climax is an absolute surprise, and no reader will be able to say, ‘I knew it from the beginning’.
The Amazing Web
How the Trigger-Finger of a Man Long Dead Sent Another Man To His Death
In this gigantic mystery story, Mr. Keeler has employed atavism in his plot, a thing that has probably never before been attempted in mystery fiction. Starting in pirate days with the bitter enmity between Captain Kidd and Captain Quarlbush whom Kidd marooned on a desert island for mutiny and thus deprived of a share in the spoils, Mr. Keeler conjures up in modern times a descendant of each of them and shows how in a mysterious way Quarlbush was finally avenged.
Standing one day before a strange beautiful Chinese cabinet, in which he was seeking some priceless papers, Kidd’s descendant falls dead. With many dramatic suspenses, Mr. Keeler tells the story of how Captain Quarlbush, bent upon revenge, secretly built the beautiful Chinese cabinet, which he plotted to fall into Kidd’s hands. This is the basis of the primary plot to which are interlaced many other plots in this incomparable book.
Sing Sing Nights
Three men in Sing Sing – all writers – awaiting execution for the same crime. The body of the victim held only two bullets—one of the men is innocent. How can they find out before morning which one of them is to sign the pardon blank? Sing Sing Nights is a startling example of Mr. Keeler’s uncanny power to unravel the most involved plots and during the unraveling deepen the mystery until the very end of the story.
Find the Clock
What a contretemps! Young Jeff Darrell, ace reporter for the Morning Call, is the best investigative reporter in town, but now that the world-famous Marvin Feldock has joined the rag, all of Jeff’s work must be published in Feldock’s name. And to add to the insult, the notorious murderer, the Blond Beast of Bremen, is rumored to be in town, and everyone knows that Jeff flubbed his last best chance to capture the Beast. When Napoleon Foy, the local Chinese laundryman, gets involved you know you’re in for a wild, thickly-plotted odyssey through Chicago, the London of the West—an odyssey that only Harry Stephen Keeler could have written.
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