Fletcher Flora

Wildside Press is proud to present the fourth of Fletcher Flora's series featuring police detective Lt. Joseph Marcus, as part of our ongoing effort to make Flora's collected work available again to the public. We plan to release the entire series. In this entry, Lt. Marcus and Sgt. Fuller investigate another puzzling murder - in this case, the death of Phil Stein, slain while mowing his lawn.... While Flora had a long career writing much crime,...

The Golden Age of Mystery & Crime MEGAPACK™ series focuses on unjustly forgotten mystery writers from the 1960s and before. Fletcher Flora is a perfect example. Beginning in the 1950s, Flora wrote a string of 20 great novels -- mysteries, suspense, plus three pseudonymously as "Ellery Queen." He also published more than 160 short stories in the top mystery magazines. In his day, he was among the top of his field. This volume collects 26 of his classic...

Lt. Marcus investigate the murder of Foster, the black sheep of the family.

Wildside Press is proud to present the fifthof Fletcher Flora's series featuring police detective Lt. Joseph Marcus, as part of our ongoing effort to make Flora's collected work available again to the public. We plan to release the entire series. While Flora had a long career writing much crime, mystery, and detective fiction, Marcus seems to be his only attempt to create a series character. Marcus, as a character, is marked by his dogged rationality,...

Lt. Marcus looks into a murder at a local hotel. The victim: one Mr. Draper. The cause: a slit throat. Of course, there are multiple suspects...

Wildside Press is proud to present the first of Fletcher Flora's series featuring police detective Lt. Joseph Marcus, as part of our ongoing effort to make Flora's collected work available again to the public. We plan to release the entire series. While Flora had a long career writing much crime, mystery, and detective fiction, Marcus seems to be his only attempt to create a series character. Marcus, as a character, is marked by his dogged rationality,...

A classic crime story originally published in the August, 1953 issue of Manhunt.

Fletcher Flora (1914-1968) wrote or co-wrote sixteen novels under his own name plus ghost-wrote three as Ellery Queen. He penned many short stories for a variety of mystery magazines and anthologies in the 1950s and 1960s. This volume includes: I'll Kill for You I'll Race You In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree

Lawyer Solomon Burr has a new client...and it's an old friend of his from law school. Can Sol save his old pal from a murder rap? This tale is ripped from the April 1953 issue of Dime Detective Magazine. A classic!

"Wildside Press is proud to present the second of Fletcher Flora's series featuring police detective Lt. Joseph Marcus, as part of our ongoing effort to make Flora's collected work available again to the public. We plan to release the entire series. While Flora had a long career writing much crime, mystery, and detective fiction, Marcus seems to be his only attempt to create a series character. Marcus, as a character, is marked by his dogged rationality,...