Johnston McCulley

Johnston McCulley may be best known as the creator of Zorro, but he was a prolific pulp author in many genres. This volume collects 3 short novels and 7 short stories with mystery themes. Included are: THE MASKED WOMAN "THE MOUTHPIECE WILL KNOW!" MURDER NOTE HOOKED THE OBVIOUS CLUE FORBEARANCE INITIATING NOGGINS THUBWAY THAM'S DEED OF MERCY THE STOLEN STORY SANTA THUMBS A RIDE

The masked woman called herself Madame Madcap, and she gathered a gang of cutthroats determined to loot high society of all its riches ... starting with the notorious womanizer Hamilton Brone. She worked her criminal magic ... and grew rich as millionaires swooned at her feet. Members of her gang worshipped her. She could do no wrong. And yet a curious pattern began to emerge, and a strange vengeance took shape - not just against the men of high society,...

The Johnston McCulley MEGAPACK™ collects 15 tales of mystery, detection, and adventure by the creator of Zorro - more than 500 pages of great reading. Included are: THE MAN WHO CHANGED ROOMS DIAMONDS, DIRT, AND DUTY A CROOK WITHOUT HONOR PODDIN'S MISTAKE INITIATING NOGGINS ETERNAL ASSETS SLAVE OF MYSTERY THE OBVIOUS CLUE RUN TO GROUND THE ONLY WAY THE GREAT GREEN RING NEW YEAR'S DUTY WITHOUT THE BLUE AN ORIGINAL REVOLUTION RICHARD...

Thubway Tham is a small, short-tempered gnome of a man, a professional pickpocket with an annoying lisp. But he is no mere thief...he is the king of his chosen profession, a master "dip" who works only in the subways of New York City. Like all such villains, he faces a cunning adversary in Police Detective Craddock, who is always half a pace behind. Craddock has sworn to put Tham behind bars, where he belongs. But Tham is clever enough to always remain...

The Curse of Capistrano - Johnston McCulley - The Curse of Capistrano is a 1919 serialized novel by Johnston McCulley and the first work to feature the fictional Californio character Zorro (zorro is the Spanish word for fox). It would be later published as a book in 1924 under the title The Mark of Zorro

The Cowboy Megapack collection 25 tales of western adventure, including two complete novels and 23 short stories! Authors represented include Johnston McCulley (creator of Zorro), Robert E. Howard (creator of Conan the Barbarian), Clarence E. Mulford (creator of Hopalong Cassidy), and many more. The western tales are: "A Texan Rides the Trouble Trail," by Johnston McCulley "Sixguns to Bowie," by Robert J. Hogan "The Drive," by Clarence E. Mulford "Thieves...

Christmas - the very word conjures up memories of the most wondrous childhood holiday of all-filled with the glitter of colorfully-wrapped presents, family visits, carols, photographs, decorating the tree, attendance at church to celebrate the birth of the Christ child, and tummy-stuffing dinners tucked with treats seen at no other time of the year. But the yule holiday has been celebrated for at least two centuries in North America, and our writers...

Zorro Rides Again is the third novella featuring Zorro, the Robin Hood of Old California. Reina de los Angeles is being terrorized by a masked swordsman who marks the faces of his victims with Zorro's trademark Z. But is this the real Zorro? The Governor of California offers a reward for the capture of Don Diego Vega (who is known to have previously been Zorro) dead or alive, while an army - led by the ruthless Captain Rocha - is in hot pursuit of...

This time, the legendary Zorro fights against evil-doers with the help of his beautiful wife, Elena, and their precocious young son, Joaquin. Alejandro De LaVega is torn between two worlds: his life as Zorro and his life as a family man. After Alejandro once again breaks his promise to stop wearing the mask, Elena leaves him, and she soon begins seeing Armand, a haughty French Count. But a mysterious explosion in the desert leads Zorro to believe...

Welcome to our second volume of Detective stories! This is a grab-bag volume with contributions by many top mystery authors from the mid-20th Century pulp and digest magazines. There's something to appeal to every taste, from noir to crime to even holiday capers and a Christmas tale by Johnson McCulley (creator of Zorro). Included are: DEAD MEN DON'T MOVE, by Thomas Thursday ALIBI-WITH SOUND, by Robert Wallace HOW? WHEN? WHO?, by Fletcher Flora HELL'S...