Welcome to the Harry Stephen Keeler e-texts page. Most of these files are in RTF (rich text format). Most word-processing programs on any operating system should be able to convert this to readable form. Hungry for more Keeler books? Try Wildside Press.
John Jones's Dollar
(written in 1914, first published in 1915)
Keeler's least-unknown work is a classic SF story
about the wonders of compound interest.
This is a web page, not an RTF document.
When Thief Meets Thief
(London: Ward Lock, 1938)
Prepared by Fender Tucker
A good, old-fashioned webwork tale involving a
Chicago mystery novelist named Tillary Steevens ...
no relation to Harry Stephen Keeler, of course ...
- thief.rtf (487K)
- Dustjacket for this book
- Jim Gill's audio version of When Thief Meets Thief
- thief.zip (224K): this Zip archive prepared for Palm Pilot users by Glyn Webster contains one Palm DOC file for each chapter of When Thief Meets Thief.
The Case of the 16 Beans
(New York: Phoenix Press, 1944)
Prepared by Jim Weiler and Fender Tucker
If you inherited 16 beans in a bag, what would you do?
Consult a collection of ancient Chinese aphorisms, of course!
The Man Who Changed His Skin
(written 1959, never before published in English)
Prepared by Chris Wheeler
This novel explores what it would be like for a white man
to wake up in a black man's body ...
- skin.rtf (539K)
- Dustjacket for the 1967 Spanish paperback edition of this book
- Race in Keeler: Some Pieces of the Puzzle: Before reading The Man Who Changed His Skin, you might want to read this article by Richard Polt that sheds some light on HSK's weird and ambiguous treatment of racial issues.
This site is maintained by
Richard Polt,
polt@xavier.edu
