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  • When Mr. Clackworthy Needed a Bracer

    by Christopher B. Booth ...
    Amos Clackworthy, conman deluxe, has a new get-rich-quick scheme using investments. But his intricately laid plans may come to nothing because he forgot to leave his latest mark enough time to get his money to Chicago from Texas! ... Read more

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  • Black Cat Weekly #47

    by Peter PLoveseyress, Nisi Shawl, Laird Long, Hal Charles, Edgar Wallace, Nicholas Carter, Christopher B. Booth, George O. Smith, Algis Budrys ...
    Welcome to Black Cat Weekly #47.Another fine issue is at hand—with mysteries from Peter Lovesey (thanks to acquiring editor Barb Goffman), Laird Long (thanks to acquiring editor Michael Bracken), and classics from Christopher B. Booth, Edgar Wallace, and Nicholas Carter. (Not to mention a solve-it-yourself puzzler from Hal Charles!) On the science fiction front, we have Nisi Shawl’s excellent ... Read more

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  • Penny Protection

    by Christopher B. Booth ...
    Christopher B. Booth is best known for his tales of conman de luxe Amos Clackworthy (who always has a new scheme to part the wealthy and undeserving from their ill-gotten gains). But this tale focuses on ... Read more

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  • Black Cat Weekly #35

    by Fred Saberhagen, Eve Fisher, Sarah R. Shaber, Mel Gilden, Hal Charles, Lester del Rey, Henry Kuttner, W.C. Tuttle, Malcolm Jameson, Christopher B. Booth ...
    I mentioned to BCW's acquiring editor Michael Bracken that I was enjoying the mystery/science fiction crossover stories he had been selecting for BCW, many of them originals, and he confessed to challenging writers to come up with stories that mixed the two genres. I thought, Aha! So that’s where they have all been coming from! It’s a Good Thing in my opinion. And this issue we have another one— ... Read more

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  • Mr. Clackworthy and the Auto Rim

    by Christopher B. Booth ...
    When Amos Clackworthy, conman deluxe, spots a billboard proclaiming free factory sites for new industries, he gets off his train to investigate. Sure enough, he finds greedy men out to fleece would-be industrialists. And he can't wait to part them from their money... ... Read more

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  • Black Cat Weekly #18

    by Elizabeth Bear, E.. Hoffmann Price, Larry Tritten, Malcolm Jameson, James Holding, Vicki Weisfeld, Christopher B. Booth, Bev Vincent, Spencer Dean ...
    Black Cat Weekly #18 is another great lineup of novels and short stories this time, so without further ado—on to the stories!Mysteries / Suspense“Rediscovery,” by James Holding [short story]“Staying Cool,” by Hal Charles [Solve-It-Yourself Mystery]“The Ghost Who Read the Newspaper,” by Vicki Weisfeld [Barb Goffman Presents short story]“Mr. Clackworthy and the Auto Rim,” by Christopher B. Booth ... Read more

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  • Mr. Clackworthy Forgets His Tonic

    by Christopher B. Booth ...
    Conman extraordinaire Amos Clackworthy was the primary mystery character of Christopher Belvard Booth (1889-1950) in the 1920s. Together with his henchman, the Early Bird, he raised grifting to new levels—and his targets were always those greedy, disreputable businessmen who more than deserved it. ... Read more

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  • Black Cat Weekly #16

    by Michael Swanwick, Larry Tritten, John Gregory Betancourt, Stacy Woodson, Christopher B. Booth, Nisi Shawl, Paige Sleuth, Malcolm Jameson ...
    Black Cat Weekly #16 is a special holiday issue, featuring three holiday-themed mysteries for your reading pleasure. We didn’t have any holiday science fiction or fantasy stories on tap this time, but we will definitely try to do better next year. (Decembers are always a bit chaotic at Wildside Press—we also have to get out the year-end royalties for hundreds of authors.)If you are a fan of ... Read more

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  • The Deviltry of Dr. Waugh

    by Christopher B. Booth ...
    "Christopher B. Booth is almost entirely forgotten today; but in 1910s through the 1930s, he was a prolific author of mysteries and westerns under his own name and the pseudonuym “John Jay Chichester.” Street & Smith’s book publishing arm, Chelsea House, collected a number of his pulp stories in book form, most famously in the volume entitled Mr. Clackworthy. Mr. Clackworthy assembles 9 stories ... Read more

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  • Family History Capitalized

    by Christopher B. Booth ...
    Series Book 24 - Wildside Pulp Classics
    In the frigid winter of Prohibition-era Chicago, a master con artist and his faithful sidekick eye a dilapidated mansion with a legendary past. Once home to the notorious Van Kessler family, the crumbling estate is rumored to hide a fortune in pre-Prohibition liquor. With a clever scheme, they resurrect the long-absent Van Kessler heir, convincing the city’s elite that a reformed rake has returned ... Read more

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  • Mr. Clackworthy’s Cool Million

    by Christopher B. Booth ...
    Series Book 3 - Wildside Pulp Classics
    A master grifter takes on the monopolistic ice industry with nothing but wit, bravado, and a wildly implausible home-refrigeration patent. As the scheme spirals into a full-scale operation, complete with staged demonstrations and fake financiers, the line between bluff and business blurs. A sharply comic tale of deception, desperation, and defiance, this satirical romp skewers greed with a grin ... Read more

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  • Doomed at Four

    by Christopher B. Booth ...
    Series Book 5 - Wildside Pulp Classics
    Freezing and starving, a nameless young man stumbles into an apartment lobby seeking warmth—but finds a passkey instead. Driven by desperation, he ascends into the building’s silent corridors.Inside his opulent apartment, Thomas Karch sleeps, oblivious to the intruder creeping closer. When the starving man’s frantic quest for food shatters the silence, it collides violently with the hidden ... Read more

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