The Disappearing Floor (1940; original text) by Franklin W. DixonFrank and Joe Hardy and their best bud Chet are headed to the woods for a little camping trip. Just by chance there is a scorched envelope in their first night's fire pit with the name "Harry Tanwick" on it and a hundred dollar bill inside. [Will the mystery in this story have anything to do with Harry or the envelope? Not a whole lot. Sorry, if that spoils things too much.] Then...that night Frank wakes to find someone rummagin...| MY READER'S BLOCK
Death on the Dragon's Tongue (1982) by Margot Arnold (Petronelle Cook)When an ailing friend calls on Sir Tobias Glendower, professor of Near Eastern and European Archaeology, to take his place at the site of a prehistoric burial monument (henge) in Brittany, Sir Toby has no idea that that he's going to land in the middle of another murder case--this one involving French politics Breton superstitions, witchcraft, and a transplanted American cult. Not to mention blackmail, drug-running, and kid...| MY READER'S BLOCK
The Feathered Serpent (1927) by Edgar WallaceWhen reporter Peter Dewin first heard about the Feathered Serpent, he laughed. "When he heard of it again, he sneered." It sounded for all the world like something from a shilling shocker or from one of the thrilling plays on London's stages. And, to be fair, the story did start with the theater. Miss Ella Creed, well-known actress, receives a cardboard message with a crude drawing of a Feathered Serpent and the words "Lest you forget." It's an exa...| MY READER'S BLOCK
Murder, London-South Africa (1966) by John CreaseyWhen an important South African diamond merchant by the name of Van der Lunn goes missing just after landing in London, Superintendent Roger "Handsome" West is tapped to lead the investigation. Working with Lieutenant Jameson, a South African officer attached to the country's consulate in London, They track Van der Lunn to a seedy little hotel where he is being held incommunicado. But those who are holding him attempt to sneak him out a window...| MY READER'S BLOCK
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One Fell Sloop (1990) by Susan Kenney This is the third and last of a short academic mystery series which features Roz Howard, American l...| myreadersblock.blogspot.com
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The Talk Show Murders (1982) by Steve Allen This is the first mystery novel by Steve Allen who was a modern Renaissance man--comedia, auth...| myreadersblock.blogspot.com