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Orr: The Wailing Rock Murders

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King Kobra Mystery Game

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This was an early 1930s newspaper challenge, using a comic strip to set up a murder mystery. Readers were invited...

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2 Detectives: Detective Barney / Paul Foss

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This epub-only collection brings together the stories of two early serial detectives. 'The Adventures of Detective Barney' (1920-1921) by Harvey...

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Merwin / Somerville / Footner: Femmes Audacieuses

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Lady Can Do (1929): Elsie Penn has been hired on as social secretary to a wealthy collector of Eastern antiquities...

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