Fred Macisaac

Roger Thule was a prodigy born old-a lightning calculator and walking encyclopedia whose brilliance has hollowed out his appetite for life. When his celebrated father is found shot dead and a woman's scented handkerchief is the only clue, Roger is pulled from the brink by an unlikely vow: he will prove he can be as human as he is brilliant. He will win love-and he will unmask a killer. Torn between cold reason and raw feeling, Roger crosses from study to ring. Under the tutelage of a hard-bitten trainer and the scheming guidance of Dr. Tom Marvin, he learns to move like a boxer and think like a hunter. Eloise Lane, the beautiful actress at the center of the mystery, refuses his easy certainties and forces him to confront the one thing he never studied: the heart. Meanwhile a city of gamblers, brokers, and hired guns closes in, and the fight for a title becomes a fight for life. Equal parts pulp mystery, courtroom drama and prize-ring spectacle, The Mental Marvel is a ferocious, romantic thriller about genius and guilt, science and savagery-and a young man who must choose which will define him.

When millionaire Thomas Thompson hires private detective Jack Brady to investigate the murder of his stunning wife, Mona, a web of intrigue unfolds on a secluded island. With five suspects, including Thompson himself, his son, a former screen star, and a penniless adventuress, Brady must navigate a labyrinth of lies. Complications arise when a masseuse reveals that the murder may have occurred at the nearby Nudist Club-a hotbed of secrets and smuggling. As Brady digs deeper, he becomes a target, attacked by a mysterious assailant and captured by a notorious dope smuggler. With the clock ticking and lives at stake, can Brady uncover the truth before he becomes the next victim?

Dime Detective magazine was the flagship detective pulp in the Popular Publications stable, running for almost 300 issues over twenty years. The June 1932 issue contains stories by Edgar Wallace, T.T. Flynn, Fred MacIsaac, Frederick Nebel, and Maxwell Hawkins, and includes an installment in Nebel's Sgt. Brinkhaus series.

Ronnie Ray became world famous as The Singer in the Dark, but even advertising agent Pete Hunter thought that was nothing but a publicity stunt until he found Ronnie's corpse seated in a homemade electric chair in a lonely roadside inn, three weeks after the tenor's strange disappearance. Though he was dead, how could his fianc e hear Ronnie sing a song that was not published until after his death in the voice that no one could imitate?

Meet the "Rambler": peripatetic newspaper reporter Addison Francis Murphy. A tall, rangy redhead, the Rambler behaves like a tramp, wandering from city to city, often arriving on a railroad boxcar, never taking root. Renowned for his reporting skills and deductive abilities, Frank Murphy never has any difficulty landing a job with the local newspaper; wherever he winds up, he finds that his reputation has preceded him. The Rambler has a knack for getting into trouble, and every search for a front-page scoop puts him in jeopardy sooner or later. He seems to have a genius for running afoul of violent gangsters, wealthy businessmen, corrupt politicians, crooked cops, and the occasional double-crossing dame. Created by Fred MacIsaac, at one time a redheaded journalist himself, Frank Murphy rambled through 19 terse, tough yarns published between 1933 and 1940 mainly in the pages of Dime Detective, the prestigious crime pulp second only to the legendary Black Mask in its impact on the genre. Contains the following stories: "Murder on the Mississippi," "Cat's-Paw for Murder," "Blond Cargo," and "The Corpse in the Taxicab."

Meet the "Rambler": peripatetic newspaper reporter Addison Francis Murphy. A tall, rangy redhead, the Rambler behaves like a tramp, wandering from city to city, often arriving on a railroad boxcar, never taking root. Renowned for his reporting skills and deductive abilities, Frank Murphy never has any difficulty landing a job with the local newspaper; wherever he winds up, he finds that his reputation has preceded him. The Rambler has a knack for getting into trouble, and every search for a front-page scoop puts him in jeopardy sooner or later. He seems to have a genius for running afoul of violent gangsters, wealthy businessmen, corrupt politicians, crooked cops, and the occasional double-crossing dame. Created by Fred MacIsaac, at one time a redheaded journalist himself, Frank Murphy rambled through 19 terse, tough yarns published between 1933 and 1940 mainly in the pages of Dime Detective, the prestigious crime pulp second only to the legendary Black Mask in its impact on the genre.