The Argosy Library: Four Corners, vol. 2 (2020) by Theodore Roscoe

Theodore Roscoe was an American biographer, historian and one of the finest pulp writers of the day, known for his gripping tales of exotic adventure and thrilling horror that appeared in magazines like Argosy, Adventure and Short Stories, but detective fans know him for his novels Murder on the Way! (1935), I'll Grind Their Bones (1936) and Z is for Zombie (1937) – all reprinted during the past ten years. Three utterly bizarre, wildly imaginative takes on the locked room mystery and the reason why I call Roscoe "the John Dickson Carr of the Pulps." And, as it turned out, there are many more detective novels and impossible crime stories to be found among Roscoe's work. Such as Roscoe's Four Corners series published in Argosy from 1937 to 1941.The Argosy Library: Four Corners, vol. 1 (2015), published by Steeger Books, collects the first five, of ten, novelettes about the good citizens of a small town a 100 miles outside of New York. So, technically, this is not a series of pure…