Bradshaw Investigates: Comets Have Long Tails / Death Casts a Lure (Golden-Age Detective Fiction)

Two classic mystery novels featuring newspaperman Noah Baxter.

From the Kirkus review of 'Comets Have Long Tails': "The death of the Chinese ward of a well-known socialite and rare jade collector, Mrs. Allison, throws the Police Commissioner under suspicion. The law balks at investigating its chief, so Bradshaw of the chief newspaper takes to sleuthing and a hotbed results. Two more murders to cover up a robbery -- and the original murderer finally revealed, a surprise twist. Trips along nicely, occasionally splashy, but good entertainment."

'Death Casts a Lure': "Noah Bradshaw, the genial, quiet reporter of Comets Have Long Tails, literally fell over the body of the first victim in a series of murders that turned a de-luxe Canadian fishing camp into a prison of sus­pects. Alan Muir was the victim, and his brother, a charming English gentleman, was the person who seemed to be the most logical choice as a murderer. Lance apparently had been exerting every influence to keep his blacksheep younger brother out of trouble, but Lance was in love with a married woman and bitterly resented the epithet the drunken Alan had hurled at him. A case that had for clues an English newspaper clipping, a Canadian-wound trout fly, a New York lawyer, an Eskimo dog and a French-Canadian trollop was bound to be confusing, especially when Bradshaw found his sympathies entirely with the man accused of fratricide."