Golden Age of Detective Fiction

Stacking The Shelves is a meme hosted by Tynga’s Reviews and Reading Reality, all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, whether physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in physical stores or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts, eBooks, and audiobooks.

eBooks

Amazon Blurb:

Superintendent King has concluded that the drunk driver with a dead body in his car was only guilty of manslaughter, not intentional murder. But Dr. Lancelot Priestley thinks there’s more to the story—especially considering that the victim’s estate, Pinehurst, has been plagued by burglaries of late.
 
As he applies his usual scientific rigor to the case, Priestley will be drawn into not one crime but many—and some of them date back years—in this classic British mystery.

Dr. Priestley Investigates

Series: Dr. Priestley

315 pages, Kindle Edition

First published in 1930. This edition was published January 11, 2022 by MysteriousPress.com/Open Road Media.

Books

Goodreads Blurb:

Bingo and Handsome take their cameras and head for Hollywood, only to break down in the small town of Thursday, Iowa. While stuck there, a convict escapes, there are murders, and a disappearance, with clues leading back to a 15-year old bank robbery, with money reputed to be hidden in the town.

The Thursday Turkey Murders

Series: Bingo Riggs and Handsome Kusak (#2)

313 pages, Hardcover

January 1, 1943 by Simon & Schuster

Goodreads Blurb:

Dr. Hilton Devarest was a whiz at curing patients, but his private life was sick, sick, sick. He lived with a wife who was as warped as she was repulsive, a secretary who enjoyed fun and games with the doctor every morning before breakfast, a niece who believed nice girls finished nowhere, and a nephew whose only means of support was making women happy.

Donal Lam and Bertha Cool got involved with the not-so-good doctor when he hired them to find some stolen jewels. But soon they were in the fight of their lives against a killer who thought murder was the best medicine, and was out to treat them to an overdose of death …

Series: Cool and Lam (#5)

224 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1941. Published January 1, 1991 by Avon Books.

Goodreads Blurb:

A LADY PRIVATE EYE

The man burst into the detective’s office and stared at the woman seated behind an oversized desk.

“You’re not Donald Lam,” he said.

Lam was in Europe, and his partner Bertha Cool was covering for him. Only our harried friend didn’t know whether to trust a lady private eye.

“Look,” Bertha snapped, “you don’t have to marry me. If you have something on your mind, spill it–if you haven’t, get the hell out of here.”

He had something on his mind, all right–$20,000 in cold cash, poison pen letters and a body in his cellar.

Cats Prowl at Night

Series: Cool and Lam (#8)

224 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1943. Published July 1, 1961 by Dell.