Publisher's Synopsis
This volume collects 21 stories featuring Detective O'Malley from the pages of Collier's. They date from 1930 through the early 1940s. William MacHarg's title character is a lot of fun and sure to appeal to fans of classic puzzle mysteries.
Of the series (which numbers about 80 stories), Mike Grost wrote: "The brief tales are heavily plot oriented. Some of them have mystery puzzle plots, in others the killer's identity is simply found through police work. O'Malley puts great emphasis on coming up with ingenious ideas to make the killer confess, or make a damaging admission of guilt; the stories contain numerous gimmicks of this type."
Included are:
The Green Paint
The Ring
The Sleeptalker
Fingerprints
The Fourth Degree
In A Mirror
The Wrong Hat
Soiled Diamonds
The Locked Door
The High Bridge
Too Many Enemies
No Fingerprints
Too Many Miles
Three Bullets
The Mind Reader
Through The Cabin Window
Spilled Perfume
Help From Uncle Sam
Mrs. Walder's Diamonds
City Wise
Deceiving Clothes
