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The Sleeping Cat is a thrilling story in Isabel Ostrander's best manner. Olive Mercer invites her old schoolmate, the beautiful Gloria Warrender, to her home. A murder in the garden in open daylight, and a missing ring with links to a curious wartime past, involves Special Deputy Commissioner Dan Rider of the New York Police in the investigation of several suspects. This is a well-woven mystery by an early author who helped set the foundation for the American side of Golden-Age Detective Fiction. The Sleeping Cat was published posthumously in 1926.

Fatfoot: Encounters with a Dooligahl is a quintessential cryptozoology investigation.Neil Frost has spent decades investigating and interacting with the phenomenon of the Australian Hairy Man, developing an intriguing thesis regarding the mammalian identities behind Yowie encounters. Based on observed behavior and biology (both personal observations and those of his community network, nicknamed The Octopus), the author reasons that there are three distinct species involved, all as-yet-undescribed marsupials. Fatfoot introduces us to the Dooligahl, the aggressive Quinkan, and the monkey-like Junjudee. The author's thesis asserts that 'manlike' or 'apelike' characteristics are due to evolutionary convergence, noting that similar biological parallels are found with many other Australian marsupials and their placental lookalikes. In an eminently readable history of his growing awareness of these mystery animals, the author lays out the evidence he has obtained, discusses the issues with gathering evidence (especially at a time when technology was expensive and difficult to obtain), and builds a foundation for future investigation.As a personal record of the author's coming to terms with an inexplicable animal in his own backyard, and ongoing search for scientific answers, Fatfoot serves to inspire both zoological and indigenous anthropological research.

Light Spirits collects 22 ghost stories of various shades: horrific tales, humorous jests, criminous masquerades, and emotional romances, all originally published for the entertainment of the late 1800s to early 1900s magazine readership. The stories include: Aunt Ann's Ghost Story, by Laurence Oliphant (Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 1864); Guy Neville's Ghost, by Percy Greg (Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 1865); A Ghost in a State-Room, by Samuel Blotter (The Galaxy, 1868); The Ghost of a Face, by Frederick H. Dewey (Ballou's Monthly Magazine, 1878); An Antiquary's Ghost Story, by Augustus Jessopp, D.D. (Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly, 1880); The Ghost of Aldrum Hall, by Anonymous (The Argosy, 1880); The Eynesham Ghost, by Captain Arthur Collins (Time, 1880); The Open Door, by Mrs. Oliphant (Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 1882); No Fiction, by J. G. P. (Macmillan's Magazine, 1882); No. 11 Welham Square, by Herbert Stephen (The Cornhill Magazine, 1885); By One, By Two, and By Three, by Adrian Ross (Temple Bar, 1887); A Shadow of Gold, by Vida D. Scudder (The Overland Monthly, 1887); The Green Lady, by Walter Herries Pollock (Longman's Magazine, 1888); My Uncle's Clock, by Anonymous (Macmillan's Magazine, 1888); A New Ghost Story, by Anonymous (Belgravia, 1890); The Empty Compartment, by Anonymous (Murray's Magazine, 1890); Louise, W. L. Alden (Cassell's Family Magazine, 1895); "Number Ninety", by Mrs. B. M. Croker (Chapman's Magazine, 1895); The Story of a Ghost, by Violet Hunt (Chapman's Magazine, 1895); The Long-Distance Telephone, by Robert Barr (Cassell's Magazine, 1900); The Haunting of Shudderham Hall, by Robert Barr (The Idler Magazine, 1906); The Irtonwood Ghost, by Elinor Glyn (Pearson's Magazine, 1911)

This third compilation of Dr. Karl P.N. Shuker's ShukerNature blog articles delves into a delectable variety of curious zoological subjects, from the Nandi bear and jungle walruses to striped mantas and giant monitor lizards. Dr. Shuker discusses the history of the Crystal Palace dinosaur statues, reviews the famous Surgeon's photograph of Loch Ness, and examines the history of a little hybrid elephant. Readers familiar with Dr. Shuker's ShukerNature blog will be delighted to add this collection of updated articles to their library, while new readers will find this an open invitation to explore the fascinating, curious, and surprising mysteries of the natural world.

The foundation of Orin McMonigle's expansive guide to the practical husbandry and reproduction of milliped species from around the world rests on decades of hands-on research. Milliped Zoology directs both enthusiastic amateur naturalist and professional laboratory animal caretaker to those species which are best suited to thrive in and populate a captive environment. Building on the 2012 Millipedes in Captivity, this updated volume includes numerous species that have engendered captive interest since that time. Successful reproductive efforts for previously scarce species are also recorded.Millipeds are fascinating subjects for educational study, and with proper care and attentiveness to basic requirements may offer years of enjoyment. Different shapes, colors, and behaviors contribute to the appeal of these understated creatures. Such attention given to small creatures like millipeds enriches our regard for the natural world at large.

Taking inspiration from the peculiar forms found in driftwood, old roots, and shoreline stumps, seascape artist Frederick J. Waugh created a new type of American fairy folk, the Munes. The story of a wizard who creates a clan of little folk out of knobby limbs and branches is well-illustrated with numerous pictures. The Clan of Munes was published in 1916."The drawings are the most wonderful things ever seen . . ." (1916 review)

J. Carver Pusey was a newspaper cartoonist best known for his 1930s pantomime strip, Benny. His first strip was Cat Tales, which was also mostly pantomime (wordless), though a few feature vaudeville-style gags. Cat Tales ran in the mid- to late 1920s (and a brief resurgence in the 1930s), with the same strips showing up in different newspapers in different years. This collection brings together many of his Cat Tales strips, often silly, sometimes sly, featuring the antics of anthropomorphic felines and their very human foibles.

Death strikes in the night, and a weekend house party becomes the scene of baffling crimes . . . This was Virginia Rath's (1905-1950) first published mystery novel, published in Complete Detective Novel Magazine in 1931.

The Dinosaur's Egg is the story of the charming Clayton family of Devonshire who find themselves navigating a change in circumstances. On the fringe of their social circle is Uncle Bliss, young Irene's godfather, an eccentric and often obtuse explorer and collector who moves his private museum/zoo to the nearby English country side. Uncle Bliss' nemesis is a mythical African beast which he hopes to collect for his museum. The children's adventures echo their famed relative's, or is it the other way around? Is there hope for the miserly Uncle Bliss to find something of true value?1926 review: "Light as a thistledown and with almost the rhythm of a babbling brook rushing over the stones, the author of The Dinosaur's Egg, entertains the reader in a manner almost unique. It is all delightfully amusing. It is a tale of the adventures, verbal and otherwise, of Uncle Bliss, intrepid African explorer and Nemesis of the rare pterodactyl found only in the morasses of the Jiundu river. It is also the humorous account of Uncle Bliss' contacts with a most charming Devonshire family. Uncle Bliss . . . collects for his museum, from the stuffed hippopotamus to the dinosaur's egg, and is often in consequence an embarrassment to country society and even to the government. . . . [Y]ou will find her a book that is highly entertaining and well worth reading."1926 review: "The Dinosaur's Egg is what our remote Victorian ancestors called an 'oddity' among novels, and a delightful oddity at that. The narrator is an invalidated English officer from the Sudan, and has more humor than that class is usually given credit for. There is a bit of black magic in the tale, but even the savage relic from Africa with sinister and occult powers does its stuff in not too horrifying vein. The owner of the dinosaur's egg is an eccentric uncle, millionaire, collector and miser who establishes his private zoo in a peaceful English country side, says and does the unexpected thing on all occasions, and sets the key for a novel that is full of gentle wit and drollery verging on the fantastic yet retaining an air of plausibility by a manner of telling which begs you to believe in it for the afternoon, anyway. (1926)

A young playwright and an attractive interior designer find themselves suspects when the unhappily married wife of a prominent Senator is found murdered. Attending Mrs. Kirby's house party, Stephen Ransom and Ann Vickery struck up a conversation, and Stephen jokingly outlined a plot for a mystery play that might take place in the Washington mansion's setting. After Mrs. Kirby is found dead, Stephen and Ann must join forces to clear their name, under the watchful eye of Inspector Duveen. Design for Murder was published in 1936.

Young Dr. Dunn is acting as locum for Dr. Wright, whose practice is on Guernsey, in the Channel Islands. Dr. Dunn finds much of interest in the mix of French and English influences on the island, but nothing unusual about his work, until a strange old man that he has visited goes missing, then turns up dead. Certain peculiarities spark doubts in the doctor's mind about the man's death, while strange circumstances continue to arise and island blackguards threaten from the shadows. Finally, Dr. Dunn reaches out to a friend, Detective Francis McNab, to join him on the island in hopes of examining the accumulating evidence and figuring out just what is going on . . .

Alec Maitland, after several years abroad, returns to London down on his luck, when he meets a former friend, Charles Biddulph, an official in one of the chief Government Offices in Whitehall. Biddulph, aware of Maitland's special gifts and at the moment in need of a secret agent whose connection with the Ministry would not be suspected, offers him a commission to ferret out certain strange happenings which threaten a British Crown Colony in Africa. Maitland, temporarily living over a tobacco shop in Soho and selling photographic enlargements for a dealer, accepts with alacrity. But he soon finds the job much more difficult and dangerous than it was represented by Biddulph, when the scene moves from London to the Scottish grouse moor.The tale is one of the open air, of wits pitted against wits, of bloodshed, of hair-breadth escapes, of flight and pursuit, of intrigue in high places, finishing with a piece of neat detection and a surprise both for the guileless Maitland and the reader.Night in Glengyle was published in 1933.

In the midst of a demonstration staged by sit-down strikers, WPA Administrator Henry Ireton is murdered at his desk. Ex-newspaperman Jim Moore has been sent from Washington to look into trouble in Ireton's district, and finds himself both the temporary new deputy administrator and sidekick to Lieut. Pietro Tonelli, the hard-boiled but human ace of the Homicide Squad, as they investigate the murder. The killer strikes again, but Moore and Tonelli discover further trouble as evidence arises that a secretive criminal organization has spread its tentacles throughout Ireton's district, threatening to spread nationwide. Politics and murder go hand in hand in Murder in the WPA.Murder in the WPA was published in 1937. (More classic mysteries available from CoachwhipBooks.com.)

A scream, mounting higher and higher over the bustle and clatter back-stage at the Bolton Theatre- A woman staggers from the star's dressing-room, her white satin gown stained and patterned with the gory foot-prints of a little dog, her face contorted into a mask of horror-But the show must go on!The audience must be entertained-must laugh-while murder stalks among them. A killer may be on the stage among the players, he may be among the musicians in the orchestra, or he may be sitting there among the spectators.Anything might happen here. The Bolton Theatre is known to the theatrical profession as a "jinx house."Defying convention, public opinion, the press, the District Attorney himself, Detective-Sergeant Pietro Tonelli, who glories in the proud title of "cop," carries out a bold plan to detect a murderer who has come and gone like a phantom.A crisp story, with action in every line. A glamorous picture of life behind the scenes of a great city written by a newspaper man who knows.The Jinx Theatre Murder was published in 1933. (More classic mysteries available from CoachwhipBooks.com.)

The body of Dr. John R. Holstead, Gramercy Park inventor and owner of a wholesale drug house, is hurled out of an airplane above Market Street in Newark. Suspects are plentiful: his latest (and missing) formula is worth millions (as foreign agents well know), his nephew is suspected of peddling cocaine, his late best friend's grasping widow is in dire need of money, and some clues point to shifty smugglers. Detective Sergeant 'Pete' Tonelli of New York's homicide squad untangles the clues, leading to a lively climax and desperate battle. Death over Newark was published in 1933.

Murder in the Tomb is a unique adventure in mystery stories by a newcomer in the field of detective-mystery fiction; but the reader who starts the story will not be able to lay the book aside until he has read to the final page.The novel's action is set in the city of Minneapolis during the summer of 1932. Howard Ralston, millionaire antiquarian, defies fate by bringing into his home three menaces: a Borgia poison ring, a Chinese vengeance dagger, and the mummy of Serapion, one-time Imperator of the Brothers of Karnak.Murder results. The corpse and the mummy vanish, greatly to the annoyance of Detective Hal Denny. Benjamin Butler Bailey, young private investigator-of a type new to fiction-is called in. He and Hal Denny, despite their continued disagreements, finally solve the crime-one of the most baffling in police records.The reader of Murder in the Tomb will find in this story a fast moving plot, high-running suspense, vivid characterization, and a surprise ending that satisfies.Murder in the Tomb was published in 1937. More information on Coachwhip Publications' mystery reprints can be found at CoachwhipBooks.com.

Clad only in a filmy nightdress, brutally murdered Marguerite Scholl lies horribly dead in the bedroom of her tiny Greenwich Village apartment, her throat cut so deeply that her head has been nearly severed from her body.Who among the free-loving and loose-living denizens of the Village hated the beautiful blonde stenographer with such awful passion as to do this dark and bloody thing? Police suspicion lands fast on Marguerite's live-in boyfriend, struggling artist Bob Crocker. But seasoned crime reporter Peter Adams, who seemingly always manages to be on hand for a murder, thinks Bob is innocent. ("The lice!" he raves about the perfunctory police investigation. "They're so damn sure Crocker bumped this girl they don't even bother to look around!")Spurred by the weird writing and cryptic symbols left at the scene of the crime, Peter, along with another of Bob's women friends, Houston King, looks into Marguerite's hidden past in the backwoods of Pennsylvania to find a motive for murder. There the pair finds stranger things than ever were seen even in bohemian Greenwich Village. . . .Inspired by events in a notorious and bizarre 1928 slaying, The Hex Murder is an original and engrossing detective novel, a "shuddery" [Saturday Review] vintage classic back in print for the first time in over eighty years.

Duddington Pell Chalmers is a young man of taste, class, and girth. As trustee for a local art museum, he is called in by police when the troublesome curator is murdered and soon finds himself at odds with the official enquiry. There is no shortage of suspects among local artists, art dealers, and collectors, while motives become muddled when it is discovered that murder was not the only crime. Chalmers knows that time is of the essence, or the police will arrest his artist friend, bringing ruin to a bright career, but can he follow the clues to unmask the murderer? John T. McIntyre (1871-1951) was better known for his early works starring detective Ashton-Kirk and later mysteries featuring Philadelphia private investigator Jerry Mooney (the latter published under the pseudonym Kerry O'Neil). The Museum Murder was first published in 1929.Additional mysteries available from CoachwhipBooks.com.

On the lonely Keppoch moor a dense fog was settling while four young sportsmen doggedly continued their "shoot." There was a sudden report and a few minutes later one of the party was discovered seriously wounded. Several days after, when the victim of that unfortunate "accident" was well on the road to recovery in his host's house, he was found shot through the temple.The local police investigated with unusual thoroughness and ingenuity, and had it not been for one minor fact, the first shooting would have passed as accident, the second as suicide. But that single detail was enough to arouse the suspicions of Francis MacNab whose detective genius is well known to readers of other Ferguson mysteries. The criminal had made none of the mistakes so helpful to the detective, and MacNab was unaided by any of those intuitions which are convenient in fiction but seldom occur in real life.The result is a study in detection that will meet the approval of the most exacting reader, while a sinister premonition and tense excitement throughout will hold him to the last page. As for attempting to outguess MacNab-Mr. Ferguson's old readers will warn you that it's useless.(The Grouse Moor Murder was first published in 1934.)

The Dartmouth Murders: The Dartmouth Hall clock strikes a "cold, damp six" as student Ken Harris awakens to the ominous sound of muffled rhythmic raps against a dormitory window. Upon rising and looking out the window, Ken finds to his horror that the eerie noise is coming from the two bare feet of his roommate, Byron Coates, whose rain-slicked, pajama-clad body hangs suspended from a rope fire escape. Initially it is believed that Byron committed suicide, but soon it is established that the moody Dartmouth student was the victim of a foul play. As strange events unfold and yet more unnatural deaths follow, a bewildered Ken finds himself questioning the motives of everyone around him. Even his officious attorney and author father, on hand and helping the floundering police with their investigation, comes under suspicion. When will this nightmare rampage of murders at Dartmouth end?The Wailing Rock Murders: Perched above the rocky coast near Ogunquit Beach, Maine, are two identical mansions, Victorian monstrosities with cupolas like travesties of crowns, "fashioned of rusty iron and set with blind isinglass." In the cupolas of both houses murder strikes, in most savage fashion. On the hunt for the killer is the brilliant, elderly amateur detective Spaton "Spider" Meech, whose ward, lovely Garda Lawrence, is, to his profound horror, the first of the victims. Over the course of one hagridden evening and morning, Meech confronts the most challenging-and horrendous-case in his celebrated crime-fighting career. Local legend says that when the rock wails death will follow-a claim chillingly borne out repeatedly as a remorseless "Spider" strives to ensnare a murderer in his web of detection.