Octavus Roy Cohen

• Apr-2010
• / Police Procedural
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In Octavus Roy Cohen’s fun mystery-thriller, “Six Seconds of Darkness,” energetic sleuth David Carroll, whose probe into police corruption has made him unpopular at headquarters, is put in charge of an investigation into the shooting murder of ...

• Oct-2010
• / General Fiction
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Alan Douglas wore another man's face and lived with another man's woman. And he was to die another man's death....

• Oct-2010
• / Mystery
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For just the fraction of an instant, surprise held me motionless. Then I got slugged by a carload of biology. I forgot I was a cop, forgot that this was a girl from another league, forgot I was supposed to be looking for her missing sister-missing or...

• Jan-2011
• / Historical
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Octavus Roy Cohen (1891-1959) was an American author who became popular as a result of his stories printed in The Saturday Evening Post. He published 56 books, including humorous and detective novels and collections of short stories....

• Mar-2011
• / Mystery
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The crime seemed to have lost itself in the sleety cold of the December midnight upon which it was committed. The trails were not blind�"there were simply no trails. The circumstances baffled explanation�"a lone woman entering an empty taxicab; a r...

• Jan-2012
• / General Fiction
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Collier’s, June 11 1932FATHOMS DEEPby Octavus Roy CohenIllustrated by L.R. GustavsonA Short Short Story complete on this page1300 WordsA man sails an 18 foot boat from San Francisco to Japan to win his fortune so he can marry his love....

• Mar-2013
• / Mystery
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She looked pretty as seventeen dollars' worth of lettuce, and didn't appear to mind my attempts to spoil her lipstick.Dana Warren's husband is categorically opposed to his beautiful wife marrying another man. The man in question is named Kirk Douglas...

• Jun-2013
• / Private Investigator
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A bride on her honeymoon in a remote South Carolina Lodge is brutally murdered, and all signs point to her new husband. Detective David Carroll, the groom's best friend, is determined to prove the man's innocence....

• Oct-2013
• / Literary
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PERIL PRESS presents: Collier’s, August 17 1929 THE FIFTY-CENT PEACE by Octavus Roy Cohen Illustrated by Cornelius Hicks A Short Short Story complete on this page 1100 Words A quarrel over a tip. This edition includes the illustration to the sto...

• Oct-2013
• / Literary
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PERIL PRESS presents: Collier’s, September 5 1931 LUCK BAG by Octavus Roy Cohen Illustrated by Frank Godwin A Short Short Story Complete On This Page 1300 Words This edition includes the illustration to the story as well as the cover to the issue ...

• Oct-2013
• / Literary
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PERIL PRESS presents: Collier's, December 25 1926 ROLLER COASTER by Octavos Roy Cohen Illustrated by John H. Crosman In all acts, including matrimony, the Elsie Sisters give you a laugh A Short Short Story 1100 Words This Edition includes the illust...

• Nov-2013
• / General Fiction
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PERIL PRESS presents: Collier’s, August 29 1931 NEVERMORE by Octavus Roy Cohen A Short Short Story complete on this page He walked from the dining room, and as she stared after him a queer little ache tugged at her heart 1100 Words A tale of a hi...

• Nov-2013
• / General Fiction
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PERIL PRESS presents: Collier’s, August 31 1929 ROUGH PASSAGE by Octavus Roy Cohen Illustrated by Fred Anderson A Short Short Story complete on this page He became friendly with a vivacious young widow and suffered the agony of watching her at a pr...

• Dec-2023
• / General Fiction
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“Cohen’s work is the next-best-thing to having an oral history of a Pullman porter during the hey-day of intercity train travel, at a time when the Pullman Company was one of the largest employers of African-Americans. Epic Peters wonderfully enc...

• Feb-2025
• / Mystery
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Murder is done on the quiet campus of a large Southern university-not that many will truly miss the disreputable Pat Thayer. Around three persons-two students, one the most popular girl in the college, and a professor-is woven a web of circumstantial...