Marvin Kaye Books In Order

Hilary Quayle Books In Order

  1. A Lively Game of Death (1972)
  2. The Grand Ole Opry Murders (1974)
  3. Bullets for Macbeth (1976)
  4. The Laurel and Hardy Murders (1977)
  5. The Soap Opera Slaughters (1982)

Marty Gold Books In Order

  1. My Son, the Druggist (1977)
  2. My Brother, the Druggist (1979)

Masters of Solitude Books In Order

  1. The Masters of Solitude (1978)
  2. Wintermind (1982)

Adrian Fillmore Books In Order

  1. The Incredible Umbrella (1978)
  2. The Amorous Umbrella (1981)

Novels

  1. A Cold Blue Light (1983)
  2. Ghosts of Night and Morning (1987)
  3. Fantastique (1992)
  4. The Last Christmas of Ebenezer Scrooge (2003)
  5. The Passion of Frankenstein (2014)
  6. Quest For The Pastried Peach (2020)

Collections

  1. The Possession of Immanuel Wolf (1981)

Anthology series

  1. The Game Is Afoot (1994)
  2. The Resurrected Holmes (1996)
  3. The Confidential Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (1997)

Anthologies edited

  1. Fiends and Creatures (1975)
  2. Ghosts (1981)
  3. Lovers and Other Monsters (1984)
  4. Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural (1985)
  5. Devils and Demons (1987)
  6. Weird Tales (1988)
  7. Witches and Warlocks (1989)
  8. Frantic Comedy (1991)
  9. Sweet Revenge (1992)
  10. Masterpieces of Terror and the Unknown (1992)
  11. The Best of Weird Tales (1995)
  12. From Page to Stage (1996)
  13. Don’t Open This Book! (1998)
  14. The Vampire Sextette (2000)
  15. The Ultimate Halloween (2001)
  16. The Dragon Quintet (2004)
  17. The Fair Folk (2005)
  18. The Nero Wolfe Files (2005)
  19. The Archie Goodwin Files (2005)
  20. Forbidden Planets (2006)
  21. The Ghost Quartet (2008)

Non fiction

  1. A Toy Is Born (1973)
  2. The Handbook of Magic (1973)
  3. The Handbook of Mental Magic (1975)
  4. Catalog of Magic (1977)
  5. Readers Theatre (1995)
  6. The Complete Handbook of Magic (2007)

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Marvin Kaye Books Overview

A Lively Game of Death

The frantic fun and games atmosphere of New York’s annual Toy Fair is the ironic setting for this tale of murder and industrial intrigue. Hilary Quayle is an attractive, young public relations consultant who has long harbored the desire to be a detective. It is with little urging, therefore, that she becomes involved in trying to ferret out the industrial spy who is ruining one of her best clients, Trim Tram Toys. On the opening morning of the Toy Fair, the design for a new toy is stolen, and the preliminary investigation leads to the discovery of the body of the prime suspect. The solution to both crimes lies in interpreting the meaning of the Scrabble tiles found in the dead man’s hand. Thoroughly intrigued, Hilary resolves to solve the crime and present the police with a brilliant fait accompli. She is aided by her secretary, a man as resourceful as she. The two have only a few hours in which to unravel the increasingly complex set of clues before the police must be called. The plot twists and turns, first implicating one employee, then another. At one point all signs point to Hilary herself. The elimination of two more suspects, a blackmail plot, and a newly merry widow combine to further complicate matters and make A Lively Game of Death a challenging puzzle for all games players.

The Grand Ole Opry Murders

This second Hilary Quayle mystery finds her backstage at Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry when musicians are being bumped off one by one. Author Kaye draws on his experience as an entertainment reporter for this country music mystery.

Bullets for Macbeth

Hilary Quayle and her assistant, Gene, are asked to take on the publicity for an extravagant production of Macbeth to premiere at Madison Square Garden’s Felt Forum. Hilary had known the director many years ago in summer stock. Events proceed as usual in the theatrical world a world fraught with the hectic, the impassioned, the absolute certainty that nothing will be ready by opening night, and the absolute drive to belie that certainty. And on the night of the technical/dress rehearsal all efforts seem to be paying off with a rather splendid production until one of the corpses turns out not to be acting, and the gunshot during the blackout turns out to be no flamboyant anachronism. Hilary suspects ‘the play’s the thing’ and studies the text and old sourcebooks, her trail finally taking her to the Folger Library in Washington, D.C. Gene, meanwhile, pursues the problem in more traditional fashion. His investigations leads through New York’s glamorous and less than glamorous theatrical circles. The conclusions and solutions they find will surprise everyone. Bullets for Macbeth is an exciting puzzle operating on several levels for the reader who enjoys good and intriguing mysteries.

The Laurel and Hardy Murders

Who in hell are the Sons of the Desert? Hilary Quayle asked. We’re an organization devoted to Laurel and Hardy films. Sons of the Desert is the name of one of the best of the Laurel and Hardy feature films. But what Hilary Quayle tms secretary, Gene, didn’t tell her was that women were not permitted to join the organization. When Hilary found out, she wasn tmt pleased, so she crashed a Sons of the Desert meeting. She wasn’t intending to stir up major trouble; she certainly didn tmt expect to witness an on stage murder. As always, it is Hilary who must solve the crime. Smart, independent, and enterprising, Hilary conducts her search for the killer in her usual methodical way. She takes the reader with her on a journey deep down into a show business netherworld that is rarely seen by outsiders. The characters in The Laurel and Hardy Murders include several real people ‘some of them celebrities ‘who are members of the society of film buffs founded by the late Stan Laurel as a parody of all fraternal organizations. Marvin Kaye, in real life the one time president of the Sons of the Desert, recreates the outrageously rowdy atmosphere of the club, shatters it with a spectacular murder, and then leads the reader through the tortuous process of finding and apprehending the killer.

The Soap Opera Slaughters

The plot of the popular daytime soap opera ‘Riverday’ was melodramatic to be sure, but, as detective Hilary Quayle and her sometime lover Gene discover, it’s not nearly, as tangled or as deadly as the drama its stars are acting out in real lifts. First, the unclad body of the show’s head writer is found on the street in front of the television studio. Then the director yells, ‘Action!’ and the leading villainess is poisoned, appropriately enough, in the middle of a deathbed scene. And when the show’s producer is discovered lying in a pool of blood with his head bashed in, the east and crew are suddenly fearing for something besides the show’s ratings. Namely their own lives. Before the cameras can roll again, Hilary and Gene must separate fact from fiction and egos from alter egos to learn who on ‘Riverday’ is hiding behind a mask of tragedy…
and murder!

My Son, the Druggist

OI VEY!Was Marty Gold ever up to his mezuzah in Jewish Mother, Yiddishe guilt…
and murder. Yes, Ida Gold’s own son, the druggist, had refilled Mrs. Beatrice Fenimore’s prescription for Darvon just the day she had died from a severe reaction to sterazolidin. A deadly little allergy that, as her apothecary, Marty Gold was only too well aware of. And when her will is read, and Marty Gold is named as one of the chief beneficiaries, the possibility of a professional error quickly takes back seat to a murder charge. Until Marty Gold is felled by a somewhat more common anaphylaxis…
a slight sensitivity to bullets!A funny, often touching portrayal of a good hearted amateur sleuth.

My Brother, the Druggist

The continuing adventures of Marty Gold, the thirtyish, single, Jewish pharmacist on Manhattan’s West Side. This time Marty is looking forward to attending a convention of jazz enthusiasts in Washington, D.C. The only fly in the ointment is Mase O’Dwyer, a thirteen year old pain in the neck freaked out on magic tricks, which he performs badly, who cons Marty into schlepping him along so that he can take in a magic convention also being held in the nation’s capital. Mase continues to con lots of people, eventually conning himself into getting kidnaped. And, as it turns out, Marty’s Jewish sense of guilt spurs him on to track down the criminal. While it isn’t exactly done with mirrors, the scheme does involve some magic, more than a little unscupulousness, and quite a bit of danger especially to Marty Gold!

The Last Christmas of Ebenezer Scrooge

Marvin Kaye has crafted a wondeful sequel to Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, picking up the story of Ebenezer Scrooge and revisiting familiar characters such as Jacob Marley, Bob Cratchit, and many others, following it through to an altogether satisfying conclusion in an intricate tapestry of the real and the supernatural, as the reformed Scrooge tries to satisfy a nagging feeling of something yet undone. ‘…
intriguing and unusual. It’s a very interesting idea to put a new text into an ‘intertextual’ relationship with a Dickens original. The treatment of the Jewish angle throws a sidelight on early C19th society and fictional representations of it at the time which is extremely interesting. I’m sure that many readers will find it fascinating…
In short, a worthy endeavour with much that is thought provoking.’ Charles Palliser ‘It’s a brave soul who writes a sequel to a universally loved and known book like A Christmas Carol; it’s a rarer man still who does a job as fine as Marvin Kaye of evoking Charles Dickens without imitating him, of extending a story that had until now seemed resolved and delivering a tale which will delight, terrify and affect all readers.’ Kim Newman ‘I was impressed and moved on many levels not only by Marvin Kaye’s mastery of Dickensian style, but also by a kind of optimism, or idealism, far more consistent with Victorian Dickens/Kaye than with purely contemporary Kaye. I can imagine that Marvin really did write it as Dickens might have wanted it to go.’ Paula Volsky ‘This is a magical, indeed a miraculous, story. Here is the vision of the Afterlife which Dickens did not address, but was the unanswered question at the end of his original tale. It is rare indeed when an author writes a sequel to some other author’s work and does not diminish both. It’s brilliant.’ Morgan Llywelyn

The Possession of Immanuel Wolf

Kaye’s first collection of short fiction presents a selection of his finest fantasy and horror works, including the title story about an elderly Jew possessed by the spirit of Hitler.

The Game Is Afoot

A reprint of the St. Martin’s Press original of 1994. Works by Starrett, Derleth, Barzun. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

The Resurrected Holmes

Now some of the most famous ‘unwritten’ cases of Sherlock Holmes are finally available to the public 15 legendary tales of the exploits of the great detective, as written by Ernest Hemingway Morgan Llywelyn, Ellery Queen Edward D. Hoch, H.P. Lovecraft Paula Volsky, Mickey Spillane William L. DeAndrea, Rex Stout Marvin Kaye, and others.

The Confidential Casebook of Sherlock Holmes

This long awaited volume finally brings to light several cases of the world’s most famous consulting detective that were originally suppressed to avoid scandal and embarrassment to the Crown, public figures, or to Holmes himself. Now, the truth is finally revealed regarding Holmes’s exploits involving the Titanic, his rematch with Irene Adler, the childhoods of both Holmes and Watson, and such figures as Ida Tarbell, P.G. Wodehouse, and James McNeil Whistler. The Confidential Casebook of Sherlock Holmes is a cornucopia of Sherlockiana that will delight fans young and no so young.

Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural

A gripping, chilling collection of 50 stories dating back to Shelley and Stevenson but also including modern masters.

Witches and Warlocks

Fall under the spell of these tales of black magic. Witches and Warlocks curse, jinx, hex, possess, becharm, and bedevil their victims in these tales of sorcery and the supernatural. In Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Fisherman and His Soul,’ a witch condemns a man’s soul to wander loveless through foreign lands: Isaac Asimov’s ‘The Up to Date Sorcerer’ portrays an eccentric professor who invents a hormone solution that inspires love; and in Nathaniel Hawthrones’s ‘Young Goodman Brown,’ a devil tricks a man into thinking his wife is a witch though it may not be a trick. This spooky collection includes works by such classic authors as Robert Louis Stevenson, H.G. Wells, W.B. Yeats, L. Frank Baum, and Nikolai Gogol, as well as contemporary writers such as Isaac Bashevis Singer, Ray Bradbury, Manly Wade Wellman, Daniel Pinkwater, Tanith Lee Robert Bloch and many others.

Masterpieces of Terror and the Unknown

The editor of Devils and Demons compiles more than fifty terrifying tales, many never before anthologized, by such masters as Willa Cather, Gaston Leroux, Bram Stoker, and Joyce Carol Oates. Science Fiction & Doubleday Bk Clubs.

The Best of Weird Tales

Weird Tales has always been the most popular and sought after of all pulp magazines. Its mix of exotic fantasy, horror, science fiction, suspense, and the just plain indescribable has enthralled generations of readers throughout the world.

Collected here are 13 of the best short stories published in Weird Tales’ first year of publication, 1923 classics by many who would later play an integral part in the Unique Magazine, such as H.P. Lovecraft, Frank Owen, and Farnsworth Wright.

The Vampire Sextette

Six pulse pounding tales. Original novellas by the modern masters of vampire fiction: NANCY COLLINS TANITH LEE KIM NEWMAN S.P. SOMTOW BRIAN STABLEFORD CHELSEA QUINN YARBRO

The Dragon Quintet

An abiding presence in myth and literature from around the world, the dragon has been reborn in modern fantasy fiction. The classic winged fire breathing reptile often associated with evil they do despoil villages and demand virgin sacrifices, after all tends nowadays to be more kindly disposed to humankind, sometimes aloofly offering magical wisdom, sometimes actively involved in human lives, whether as a servant or friend. In this volume, originally compiled exclusively for the members of the Science Fiction Book Club and not available in stores, editor Marvin Kaye has skillfully gathered brand new contributions to the ho*ard of dragon lore by five top fantasy authors. Orson Scott Card an expert at writing from a child’s point of view, as evidenced in his bestselling Ender’s Game and Ender’s Shadow offers a gothic yarn set in contemporary suburbia. ‘In the Dragon’s House’ tells about the mysterious dragon that lives in the wiring of an old house, palpable only to a young boy who in dreams shares its body and feels its true size and power. But what does it really want?Mercedes Lackey, prolific author of the Valdemar saga, writes of a slave boy who is chosen to care for a warrior’s dragon. Vetch and the reader will learn much about dragon behavior…
and this special dragon’s secrets may be the key to his freedom. Lackey was so taken by young Vetch that she expanded his adventures into a novel with the same name as this story ‘Joust.’Tanith Lee is no stranger to dragons, which appear quite often in her award winning fantasies. The fable ‘Love in a Time of Dragons’ is imbued with her signature atmosphere Old World, moody, erotic as a kitchen maid goes a questing with a handsome champion to slay the local drakkor. But the tale takes a surprising twist…
. Elizabeth Moon, author of the popular Esmay Suiza and Heris Serrano series, takes a break from military science fiction to give us the tale of a young man forced by lies to flee his village…
into an adventure of dwarfs and dragonspawn, of trust and wisdom, and, ultimately, af0 ‘Judgment.’Rounding off the collection is Michael Swanwick’s ‘King Dragon,’ a strange amalgam of twentieth century technology and faery magic, in which the award winning author invokes a truly sinister and repellent creature a being with the soul of a beast and the body of a machine part metal, part devil…
all merciless.

The Fair Folk

Six stories from some of the most famous names in fantasy all with one commonthreat ‘The Fair Folk.’ From blithe fairies to sinister fey, some are fair, some are foul, all are fantastic. In ‘The Kelpie,’ by Patricia A. McKillip, a carefree circle of bohemian artists is confronted by a being more powerful than any muse. Jane Yolen and Midori Snyder weave a tale of two sisters long exiled from their magical realm who must survive in ours, in ‘Except the Queen.’ In Tanith Lee’s ‘UOUS,’ a young woman with a rotten family is granted three wishes by a handsome elf and learns that nothing good comes free of charge. A hapless slob finds his world turned upside down when an eager brownie moves in and proceeds to clean house, in Megan Lindholm’s ‘Grace Notes.’ Kim Newman introduces an intrepid government investigator whose latest case pits him against a sinister brood of fairy folk known as ‘The Gypsies in the Wood.’ And the serenity of the Elves is tested in a wry fable of a long suffering magical apprentice who can’t catch a break, in Craig Shaw Gardner’s ‘The Embarrassment of Elves.

The Nero Wolfe Files

Since 1977, The Wolfe Pack has published The Gazette, chockful of articles and tales of America’s greatest sleuth, Nero Wolfe, who prefers beer and orchids to working at his West 35th Street brownstone. But thanks to Wolfe’s wisecracking associate Archie Goodwin and his agent REX STOUT, Wolfe’s seventy two cases are mystery classics. The Nero Wolfe Files is a generous collection of Neronian reading delights selected from over twenty five years of The Gazette by veteran anthologist, novelist, and charter member of The Wolfe Pack Marvin Kaye.

The Archie Goodwin Files

Since 1977, The Wolfe Pack has published ‘The Gazette,’ chockful of articles and tales of America’s greatest sleuth, Nero Wolfe, who prefers beer and orchids to working at his West 35th Street brownstone. But thanks to Wolfe’s wisecracking associate Archie Goodwin and his agent REX STOUT, Wolfe’s seventy two cases are mystery classics. NERO WOLFE: The Archie Goodwin Files is a new selection of Neronian delights carefully picked from over twenty five years of The Gazette by veteran anthologist, novelist, and charter member of The Wolfe Pack Marvin Kaye.

Forbidden Planets

A Collection of Science Fiction Novellas picked by Famed Editior Marvin Kaye for the Science Fiction Book Club. They Are Mid Death by Dean Foster, Walking Star by Allen M. Steele, JQ211F, and Holding by Nancy Crest, Rococo by Robert Reed, Kaminsky at War by Jack McDevitt and No Place Like Home by Julie E. Czerneda.

The Ghost Quartet

Do you believe in ghosts?You will after reading these original short novels from four of today’s best writers of the fantastic. Brian Lumley, a Grand Master of Horror and author of the popular Necroscope series, opens the collection with the tense ‘A Place of Waiting.’ The moors of Devon, England, are home to many ghosts, but none as fearsome as the red eyed specter that refuses to accept his death. His only chance of release, however, comes at a terrible cost. Orson Scott Card puts a new spin on one of literature’s most famous ghosts in ‘Hamlet’s Father.’ What if the former King of Denmark was not killed by his treacherous brother for his crown, but by someone entirely unexpected as punishment for the darkest of crimes? Would his troubled son still seek revenge?The patrons of an Edinburgh tavern are introduced to a beverage with an unusual history in ‘The Haunted Single Malt’ by Marvin Kaye, a clever and spooky story about ghost stories and the people who love them. Tanith Lee offers ‘Strindberg’s Ghost Sonata,’ a chilling tale set in an alternate Russia. When a poor man is rescued from certain death by hospitable strangers, he discovers that he is not a guest in their haunted tenement building he is a prisoner destined to become a sacrifice.

The Handbook of Magic

Professional magician Marvin Kaye presents tips and tricks that will not only guide readers in performing feats of magic, but will also show them how to turn clever stunts into entertaining and astounding presentations. Whether it’s card tricks, mind reading, rope tricks, or sawing a good friend in half, Kaye provides pointers on showmanship, directing the audience’s attention and keeping them entertained. Sections include Fail safe Magic, Essential Fingerwork, Stacking the Deck, In Search of a Personal Style, Putting Together an Act, Do’s and Don’ts of Magical Entertainment, and many others.

Readers Theatre

A complete guide to Reader’s Theatre what it is and how to stage it including four award winning scripts by Charles LaBorde, Jo Davidsmeyer, Caroline E. Wood, and Robert Hawkins. Performing Arts

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