Tag Archives: 1940s

In wartime London, Vera gets mistaken for the girlfriend of a famous composer and invited to sing at a charity gala Read More »

A bored automobile industry tycoon assumes a false identity, buys a half interest in a gas station, and plays matchmaker for his daughter. Read More »

Like the first entry in Columbia’s “Ellery Queen” series, Ellery Queen’s Penthouse Mystery depicts its amateur-criminologist hero as an oafish ignoramus. Read More »

In the charming community of Balboa 50 miles from Los Angeles, middle-class housewife Lucia Harper Read More »

Because boxing is a considered an illegal and disreputable enterprise in 1880’s San Francisco Read More »

A long-lost gold treasure, believed buried in the sand dunes of the fabulous Walking Hills Read More »

George Steele, art curator at a small museum, has an apparent mental breakdown one night Read More »

A young Cajun boy named Alexander Napolean Ulysses Latour spends his time on a Louisiana bayou. Read More »

In Edwardian England, a thirteen year-old cadet, Ronnie Winslow, is expelled from the naval academy at Osborne for stealing a seven shilling postal order. Read More »

Mary now runs a bookstore in L.A. with her grandfather, whose past gambling excesses have left her hating everything about the pastime. Read More »