When Leo Grainer (George Zucco) is released from his 5 year stint in prison for fraud, he plans to avenge himself and find the killer of his wife, by inviting his former associates to his home on “fog island” where they expect to find the loot they claim he stole. Once they arrive each is given a clue, luring them into his elaborate trap.
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Why Do You Not Write To Me?
Flatiron Bldg. After Snowstorm, N.Y. City (ca.1910)
I wonder if Effie ever received a reply…
Dime Mystery Magazine, Sept, 1940
A Sure Defence
White Slaves of New Orleans, 1949
New 1943 Norge Appliances
Detail of Norge Appliance Ad where they explain that they didn’t make any new models for 1943 so that the materials could go into the war effort…
Gordon Jones, The Green Hornet
The Secret People, John Beynon Harris
Rocket to the Earth’s Core
It was an ultra-scientific machine- but it plunged Mark and Margaret into the weirdest of primitive worlds… a land beneath the Earth’s surface and forgotten by time, In those dimly lit caverns, a strange and forgotten race fought a desperate battle for survival… and blind chance would decide whether their captives would be rulers or slaves. The one certain thing was that there was no way out. (originally published in 1935)
SAFE!
1910 advertisement for the Savage .32 Automatic Pistol
Green Hornet Pin-Up, 1966
