The Silver Tombstone
By Frank Gruber
1945
First Published
3.92
Average Rating
144
Number of Pages
When Johnny Fletcher and Sam Cragg's jalopy runs out of petrol, a Samaritan by the name of Joe Cotter pushes them to a motel and demands twenty dollars. Early the next morning, they siphon petrol from Cotter's convertible and make a hasty exit. However, they quickly dump their car when they discover a dead body sprawled in the back seat. They hitch a lift to Los Angeles, where a silver nugget comes hurtling through their hotel window. Is there a connection between this and the dead body?
Avg Rating
3.92
Number of Ratings
13
5 STARS
46%
4 STARS
15%
3 STARS
23%
2 STARS
15%
1 STARS
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Author
Frank Gruber
Author · 14 books
Librarian note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name Frank Gruber was an enormously prolific author of pulp fiction. A stalwart contributor to Black Mask magazine, he also wrote novels, producing as many as four a year during the 1940s. His best-known character was Oliver Quade, “the Human Encyclopedia,” whose adventures were collected in Brass Knuckles (1966), and will soon be republished in ebook format as Oliver Quade, the Human Encyclopedia,featuring brand-new material, from MysteriousPress.com, Open Road Integrated Media, and Black Mask magazine.
