Cleveland Moffett

Reproduction of the original: True Detective Stories by Cleveland Moffett

Reproduction of the original: Possessed by Cleveland Moffett

Reproduction of the original: Possessed by Cleveland Moffett

Reproduction of the original: True Detective Stories by Cleveland Moffett

Three years after the war to end all wars, the German Empire stands as the dominant power in Europe. The United States, isolated, is in a deep slumber reveling in it's relative peace and prosperity. Little did the people of America know, they were being watched, analyzed. In May of 1921 the mighty German war machine launches a furious blitz encompassing the entire eastern seaboard of America, Cities fall like dominos as the troops of Von Hindenburg establishes beachheads on our major seaports as they drive into America's heartland. Brave General Wood leads our tattered and battered army in what could be it's finest hour or it's darkest days. Will America survive? or fall under the heavy boot of Germany for all eternity?

Sequel to "The Mysterious Card", in which the mystery of the card is resolved. According to Uncertain Endings: The World's Greatest Unsolved Mystery Stories by Otto Penzler (Penguin Books, 2006), this 2-part story is one of the two most famous riddle stories of all time, the other being "The Lady, or the Tiger?" by Frank Stockton. The Mysterious Card stories were published in a magazine called The Black Cat, the first part in 1895 and the conclusion in 1896. The magazine publisher in 1912 put the two parts together in one volume, with the second part sealed, and offered a refund to purchasers if they could return the book with the seal still unbroken. We don't know if anyone actually returned the book without reading the second part.

Careers of Danger and Daring By Cleveland Moffett

The occasion of this general surprise and apprehension was a tall man dressed entirely in white, who appeared day after day swinging on a little seat far up the side of this or that church steeple, or right at the top, hugging the gold cross or weather-vane, or, higher still, working his way, with a queer, kicking, hitching movement, up various hundred-foot flagpoles that rise from the heaven-challenging office buildings down near Wall Street. At these perilous altitudes he would hang for hours, shifting his ropes occasionally, raising his swing or lowering it, but not doing anything that his sidewalk audience could see very well or clearly understand.