Josephine Tey. The Daughter of Time Raymond Chandler. The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler. Farewell, My Lovely Dorothy L. Sayers. Gaudy Night Dashiell Hammett. The Maltese Falcon John Buchan. The Thirty-nine Steps Edmund Clerihew Bentley. Trent's Last Case Cyril Hare. Tragedy At Law Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone Erskine Childers. The Riddle of the Sands
Volume 1 collects Shock suspenstories #1-#6, originally published between February 1952 and January 1953 by I.C. Publishing Co., Inc.; foreword by Steven Spielberg.
Drama unfolds between the servants and masters of an aristocratic Irish household in this “classic upstairs-downstairs story” set during World War II—for fans of Downton Abbey (Time) The war has led to a scarcity of experienced staff at the vast hereditary house of an aristocratic Anglo-Irish family. When Eldon the butler dies, Raunce—the head footman—is assigned his job. The other servants are taken aback by this irregular promotion, but lovely young Edith, a recent hire, is quite attracted to the older Raunce and a flirtation begins. And it is Edith who discovers Mrs. Tennant’s daughter-in-law, whose husband is fighting at the front, in bed with a neighbor one morning, scandalizing the whole household. When the Tennants depart for England, Raunce is left in charge of the house and struggles to control its disputatious inhabitants as well as to secure the love of Edith, especially after a precious family jewel disappears. In Loving, Henry Green explores the deeply precarious nature of ordinary life against the background of the larger world at war.
Thrilling tales of the conflict between gangsters and cops in what was described to be "Real Stories from Police Records!" Collecting issues #1-#6 of War Against Crime from the twisted artistic talents of Al Feldstein, Johnny Craig, Lee Ames, Jack Kamen, Ed Moore, Graham Ingels, Stan Asch, Leonard Starr, and more, and more.
