β Scribed by Reginald Bretnor
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Welcome to the first volume of The Black Cat Mystery Community's "Thrillogy" series, celebrating classic mystery short stories. This time we focus on the work of Reginald Bretnor (1911-1992). Included are:
PAPER TIGER
THE MURDERERS' CIRCLE
THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF THE DEAREST DEFUNCT
Reg was born Alfred Reginald Kahn in Vladivostok, Siberia. He was the son of a Latvian Jewish banker and an English governess. The family moved to Japan in 1917, then to San Diego, California, in 1920. Bretnor, whose name was taken from the maiden name of his maternal grandmother and who many acquaintances thought to be the perfect English gentleman, never left the United States in the 72 years he lived here and did not once set foot in Great Britain.
He is most widely known in the science fiction field for his humorous "Feghoot" pun stories featuring time-traveler Ferdinand Feghoot. He also published a handful of science fiction novels and a single mystery novel (A Killing in Swords) in...
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The late Reginald Bretnor (1911-1992) was never a prolific writerβhe wrote only a handful of books and about 100 short stories [and more than 100 short-short βFeghootsβ under the Grendel Briarton pseudonym]βover a 45-year writing career. In addition to wars, weaponry, and science fiction, Bretnorβs
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SUMMARY: SHE HID HER TRUE SELF. NOW THE TRUTH WILL BE REVEALED. Living a life of lies under the thumb of her widowed, spiritually-obsessed mother, Celeste has been forced to take on the identity of her dead identical twin brother, Noble. Under her boyish clothes and short-cut hair, she's almost fo
**SHE HID HER TRUE SELF. NOW THE TRUTH WILL BE REVEALED.** Living a life of lies under the thumb of her widowed, spiritually-obsessed mother, Celeste has been forced to take on the identity of her dead identical twin brother, Noble. Under her boyish clothes and short-cut hair, she's almost forgott