Welcome to The Fourth Mystery MEGAPACK®! This time we have a stellar lineup for your reading pleasure, drawing stories from a wide variety of sources -- including not only the traditional mystery magazines (such as Ellery Queen's and Alfred Hitchcock's), but also their less-well-known rivals (remember The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Magazine? Keyhole Detective?). Some are from science fiction magazines (mysteries can appear anywhere!) and some are from mainstream sources, by authors not normally associated with the mystery field. Edgar Rice Burroughs is most famous for Tarzan of the Apes, and Johnston McCulley is best known as the creator of Zorro, for example. And, of course, we have some series entries -- "The African Fish Mystery," by James Holding, is part of his Leroy King series (a sendup of Ellery Queen), and John Gregory Betancourt's "Pit and the Princess" is part of his Peter "Pitbull" Geller series. And, of course, we’ve featured the adventures of McCulley's antihero Thubway Tham in previous volumes of this series... Much great reading awaits you!
Included here are:
- THE AFRICAN FISH MYSTERY, by James Holding
- PIT AND THE PRINCESS, by John Gregory Betancourt
- JUST LIKE INSPECTOR MAIGRET, by Vincent McConnor
- MRS. DEARLY'S SPECIAL DAY, by Fletcher Flora
- THE PERFECT HIDEOUT, by William P. McGivern
- THUBWAY THAM'S PERFECT DAY, by Johnston McCulley
- THE TIGRESS OF THE CHATEAU PLAGE, by Rufus King
- MUSICIANS DON'T KILL EACH OTHER, by Stephen Wasylyk
- MYSTERY FAN, by James Holding
- THE CROSSBOW INCIDENT, by Stephen Wasylyk
- THE INQUISITIVE BUTCHER OF NICE, by James Holding
- THUBWAY THAM'S THENTH OF HONOR, by Johnston McCulley
- LONG TEETH, by R.A. Lafferty
- SOCIAL SECURITY, by James C. Glass
- DEATH DOESN'T WHISPER, by Joseph J. Millard
- THE BLACK EAGLE MYSTERY, by Geraldine Bonner
- BRIBE MONEY, by Frank Belknap Long
- THE PATRON SAINT OF THE IMPOSSIBLE, by Rufus King
- THE BEST POLICY, by Ferenc Molnar
- THUBWAY THAM GETTH BAIL, by Johnston McCulley
- WHO MURDERED MR. THOMAS?, by Edgar Rice Burroughs
- THE RED NECKTIE, by Edgar Rice Burroughs
- THE TERRACE DRIVE MURDER, by Edgar Rice Burroughs
- THE LIGHTSHIP MURDER, by Edgar Rice Burroughs