When Mr. Clackworthy Needed a Bracer
()
About this ebook
Amos Clackworthy, conman deluxe, has a new get-rich-quick scheme using investments. But his intricately laid plans may come to nothing because he forgot to leave his latest mark enough time to get his money to Chicago from Texas!
Read more from Christopher B. Booth
Black Cat Weekly #35 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMr. Clackworthy and the Auto Rim Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBlack Cat Weekly #18 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMr. Clackworthy Forgets His Tonic Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBlack Cat Weekly #47 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBlack Cat Weekly #16 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to When Mr. Clackworthy Needed a Bracer
Related ebooks
Anne Feversham Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPeacemakers Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Troubleshooter: Four Shots: The Troubleshooter, #1 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAt Sunwich Port: III Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsJim Maitland Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings"Strictly Business" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Steam-Shovel Man Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Old Man Of The Sea Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsQueen of Hearts Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGold Out of Celebes Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTempest and Sunshine Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Winds of Chance Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Rambler Club's Gold Mine Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAn Entanglement of Events: Here There and Everywhere Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Voice in the Fog Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTwice Bought Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Collected Works of Ernest Bramah Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGunsight Pass: How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPaul Clifford — Volume 06 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Riddle Of The Frozen Flame Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Stolen Aeroplane Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMax Carrados Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRun to Earth: A Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Secret of Chimneys (Warbler Classics) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dialstone Lane, Part 5. Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Riddle of the Frozen Flame Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Pony Express Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDream Chaser: The Pyrate Chronicles Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Grey Ghost Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe High Toby Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Historical Mystery For You
The Pale Blue Eye: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Murder Under a Red Moon: A 1920s Bangalore Mystery Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Watchmaker's Daughter Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Eight Perfect Murders: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Librarian of Crooked Lane Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Mystery of Mrs. Christie: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5We Have Always Lived in the Castle Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Word Is Murder: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Stranger in the Lifeboat Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The ABC Murders: A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5When I Come Home Again: 'A page-turning literary gem' THE TIMES, BEST BOOKS OF 2020 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries Volume One: Whose Body?, Clouds of Witness, and Unnatural Death Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Things in Jars: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tread of Angels Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Courting Dragons Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Find Me: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Line to Kill: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Sentence Is Death: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sworn to Silence: A Kate Burkholder Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Last Jew in Prague Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Marple: Twelve New Mysteries Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories: A Miss Marple Collection Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sidney Chambers and The Shadow of Death: Grantchester Mysteries 1 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Speaks the Nightbird Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Spider's Web Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A Morbid Taste for Bones Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Guardian of Lies Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Shakespeare for Squirrels: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related categories
Reviews for When Mr. Clackworthy Needed a Bracer
0 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
When Mr. Clackworthy Needed a Bracer - Christopher B. Booth
Table of Contents
COPYRIGHT INFORMATION
INTRODUCTION
WHEN MR. CLACKWORTHY NEEDED A BRACER, by Christopher B. Booth
CHAPTER 1
CHAPTER 2
CHAPTER 3
CHAPTER 4
CHAPTER 5
COPYRIGHT INFORMATION
Copyright © 2022 by Wildside Press LLC.
Originally published in Detective Story Magazine, January 21, 1922.
Published by Wildside Press LLC.
wildsidepress.com | bcmystery.com
INTRODUCTION
Conman extraordinaire Amos Clackworthy was the primary mystery character of Christopher Belvard Booth (1889-1950) in the 1920s. Together with his henchman, the Early Bird, he raised grifting to new levels—and his targets were always those greedy, disreputable businessmen who more than deserved it. Wildside Press’s collection, The Adventures of Mr. Clackworthy, is probably the best single volume of the Clackworthy stories available today and serves as a good introduction to the character.
Booth is not well remembered today. Information on his life is hard to find, and some of the information available online is wrong—such as that Booth was a pseudonym of Isabel Ostrander (another pulp writer, with whom Booth sometimes collaborated). But he had a prolific career that began in 1920 and pretty much ended by the late 1930s. Over that almost 20-year period, he published more than a hundred stories—and not just mysteries, but also westerns and even some mainstream stories. But as of 1940, he seems to abruptly left writing, since only a couple more stories appeared after that date. And with most pulp magazines buying all rights to stories, including the right to reprint them under other titles in other magazines, it’s entirely possible these may be reprints rather than new works.
Enjoy this classic Mr. Clackworthy story.
—John Betancourt
Cabin John, Maryland
WHEN MR. CLACKWORTHY
NEEDED A BRACER,
by Christopher B. Booth
CHAPTER 1
Back and forth across the lobby, thumbs hooked in the armholes of his almost screaming waistcoat, and with a three-carat diamond scintillating prosperously from his tie of radiant hues, the self-important man promenaded, the object of both amused and sneering smiles. His type was not new to the exclusive Blackmere Hotel. Despite his palpable assumed air of concentration, it was evident from the