This article on strange mystery writer Author Harry Stephen Keeler (1890-1967) is from NPR. I've got to try to find some of it. A sample of one of his plots:
X. Jones of Scotland Yard: A man is found strangled to death in the middle of a lawn, yet there are no footprints other than his own. Police suspect the "Flying Strangler-Baby," a killer midget who disguises himself as a baby and stalks victims by helicopter.
Many of Keeler's books are kept in print by the fine people at Ramblehouse. Some of their non-Keeler titles include A HASHISH HOUSE IN NEW YORK by H.H. Kane, a short description of a visit to a New York hashish house "that seems to have been written around 1910", and THE PRIVATE JOURNAL & DIARY OF JOHN H. SURRATT, The Conspirator.
The Professor says check it out.
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