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Rufus King
NYPD's Lieutenant Valcour investigates how a philandering husband could have been murdered twice in one night in this Jazz Age whodunit.
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This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to…
Rufus King returns to the maritime mystery genre with Murder on the Yacht. A lawyer disappears from a taxi cab on the way to join a party aboard the giant…
With greedy anticipation, Alan Admont listened to gangster Joe Inbrun plan murder. The Deadly Dove, a ruthless killer, would be hired. The Dove worked quietly and swiftly. The result would…
Melissa Tyler, who had just inherited incredible wealth, came to the Harden Detective Agency claiming she needed protection from crank letters and any possible trouble involving her family. This was…
When Clara Davis grew tired of her stodgy husband Harold, she came up with an inspired plan: Why not fake her own death? And why not be paid for being…
An extortionist’s note, demanding $20,000 in cash and threatening the kidnapping of Kate Willett’s two mentally unbalanced sons, sent Lieutenant Valcour rushing up to the Willetts’ Adirondacks camp. There, death…
Rufus King (1893 - 1966) was an American author best known for his Whodunit crime novels. As a major mystery and crime novelist he created four detective series. King also…
When a prominent New Yorker is murdered at his home, Lt. Valcour is called in to investigate. This is the first of the Lt. Valcour series, from the same time…
Ann Lebrick cheerfully accepted an assignment to photograph the ocelots of Miss Estelle Marlow. On arrival at the Marlow estate, Black Tor, where she was to stay for a week…
Cotton Moon has his hands full in the case of the Holiday Homicide. He gets mixed up in a murder investigation on New Year’s Morning because of (1) a rare…
In our opinion the best thing that Rufus King has ever written. – The New York Times Miriam Lake found herself in an alarming situation the night she came aboard…
Without realizing it, Carrie Giles has become a stranger in her own home. Four roomers have moved in. Three are cold-eyed men. The fourth is a predatory female whose every…
The Sturm House has an atmosphere of the unpleasant. The shooting of Alice Tribeau only adds to the atmosphere for Lt. Valcour, as he arrives in the midst of a…
The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists…
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR’d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have…
Rufus King in the Development of Cincinnati During the Last Fifty Years is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1891. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on…
Rufus King (1893-1966) was an American author of Whodunit crime novels. He created four series of detective stories: the first one with Reginald De Puyster, a sophisticated detective similar to…
In five short stories and one long novelette, Rufus King introduces Colin Starr, a young physician whose medical knowledge enables him to detect murder where a less able doctor would…
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
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This biography offers a detailed portrait of Rufus King, a prominent American statesman who served in the Continental Congress, as a U.S. senator, as ambassador to Great Britain, and as…
This is a new release of the original 1926 edition.
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This is the first full-length biography of Rufus King. It emphasizes politics and diplomacy but also presents a well-rounded appraisal of King’s personality, outlook, and interests. Many little-known facets of…
Rufus King Sewall
Popham's Town of Fort St. George is a historical account of the early colonization of Maine by the English in the 17th century. Written by Rufus King Sewall and first…
