Frank Gruber

Oliver Quade, the Human Encyclopedia: Smashing Detective Stories

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A collection of stories starring one of the most unique sleuths ever to crack a caseOliver Quade knows the record for most eggs laid by a single hen. He knows which state has the longest coastline. He knows why cats purr, who signed the Magna Carta, and who won the two-hundred-twenty-meter race in the 1896 Olympics. Oliver Quade is the Human Encyclopedia, with an answer to every question save one: When are you going to pay the rent?Hoping to solve this tricky problem, Quade heads to a poultry convention to sell some encyclopedias, and is just starting his sales pitch when a dead man is found in an incubator. It's a puzzle that Quade will have… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Smith, Kevin Burton (Solist) / Deutsch, Keith Alan (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-4804-6138-3
EAN: 9781480461383
Produktnummer: 15748271
Verlag: Mysterious Pr.com
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Seitenangabe: 434 S.
Masse: H20.4 cm x B13.6 cm x D2.7 cm 454 g
Reihenbandnummer: 10
Gewicht: 454

Über den Autor

Frank Gruber (1904-1969) was an enormously prolific author of pulp fiction. A stalwart contributor to Black Mask magazine, he also wrote novels, producing as many as four a year during the 1940s. His best-known character was Oliver Quade, the Human Encyclopedia, whose adventures were collected in Brass Knuckles (1966), and will soon be republished in ebook format as Oliver Quade, the Human Encyclopedia, featuring brand-new material, from MysteriousPress.com, Open Road Integrated Media, and Black Mask magazine.