Dixon Hawke's Case Book #20 [1953-Spring] (Bogof39)
Final issue. CONTENTS: Dixon Hawke's Case Book [#20, Spring 1953] ed. Anon. A Lesson For A Lady by Anon. Damsel Doublecross by Anon. originally published in the Sporting Post December 22, 1951, as "The Unfinished Clue" They Never Searched The Rats by Anon. The Aspirin Packed A Punch by Anon. Bullet For A Banker by Anon. The Moon Cried "Murder" by Anon. The Case Of The Tidy Servant by Anon. Death Was Locked In by Anon. The Ghost Wore A Uniform by Anon. The Clue In The Dark by Anon. K.O. Candy! by Anon. Death By Time-Table by Anon. The Riddle Of The Playful Pekinese by Anon. Death Before Dinner by Anon. Half An Hour To Live! by Anon. The Corpse Smoked Cigars by Anon. The Hoax Of The Priceless Pearls by Anon. The Corpse With The Wrong Hairstyle by Anon. The Atom Train Mystery by Anon. The Knife From Nowhere! by Anon. Dixon Hawke was a fictional Scottish private detective living and working in Bath Street, Glasgow. After World War I, he moved to a flat on Dover Street in London, opposite the Ritz Hotel, near Picadilly. He was tall, "aquiline," and around 35 years old, with a "clear cut face." He wore a dressing gown while lounging around his quarters, smoking a "blackened briar." He had a secret room where he kept a variety of clothes and disguises, and there was a secret passage out of his flat, which allowed him to go out unnoticed. He drove a powerful Sunbeam roadster. Hawke was well respected, and well connected, sometimes dinning with the Prime Minister. Hawke's adventures…
- Series
- Dixon Hawke's Case Book
- Genres
- Crime, Mystery and detective
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Pulp mystery
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- None stated by the archive
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- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
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