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Overview: Keeler (1890-1967) lived all his life in Chicago, a city lovingly rendered, warts and all, in his scores of novels. In the teens and twenties Keeler published a stream of short stories and serials in the pulps. His first hardcover novel, The Voice of the Seven Sparrows, appeared in 1924. Keeler’s early work developed and perfected the concept of the "webwork plot," in which several strings of outrageous coincidences and odd events end in a surprising and utterly implausible denouement. Keeler is also fond of the Arabian Nights device (used in such early novels as Sing Sing Nights and Thieves’ Nights): he tells stories about people telling stories–a great opportunity to reuse that early pulp fiction! The result is intricate, verbose, thoroughly entertaining, and quite imaginative.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
1 The Matilda Hunter Murder (1931)
It all began with a mysterious black satchel stitched closed with silver wire. Mrs. Matilda Hunter, Jerry Evans’ landlady, finds the satchel and leaves it in his room — and then is heinously murdered. Before long, Jerry finds out about the contents of the satchel — a device known as the Michaux Death Ray — and he’s off on an odyssey!
2 The Case of the Barking Clock (1947)
It wasn’t fair! Just because Joe "Zicky" Czeszczicki had the misfortune to hire as his lawyer, ‘Golden-Tongue’ Winfrock, who died right before the trial, Joe was slated to die in 48 hours! There’s no way a man accused of murdering a State’s Attorney could beat those kinds of odds. But Joe didn’t know about Crystal Armswayne of London and how she would figure into his life — and he knew even less about Tuddleton T. Trotter, ingenious author of Mathematics versus Crime. All of these threads — and more — come together in a masterwork of webworkian logic! [Note: This is the longer, British version of the book.]
3 The Trap (1956)
Sheriff Lafe Whitecotton has a problem: sleepwalking Whisperwell Jenkins has stolen and burned some important evidence — as well as $500 in cold cash! — from his office and now everyone blames him for just about everything. Throw in a mysterious letter that claims that a book called THE CHINESE CHARACTER holds the clue to a murder and a doddering old detective named Tuddleton Trotter and you have the makings of one of the goldangdest Keeler novels that never made it to print! How Lafe and Tuddleton band together to solve this case is a tale only webworking Harry Stephen Keeler could have devised.
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