Age of Aces » The Griffon http://www.ageofaces.net The Best in Air-War Fiction Fri, 08 May 2026 10:00:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 en hourly 1 “Rip-Cord Ruse” by Arch Whitehouse http://www.ageofaces.net/2009/11/rip-cord-ruse-by-arch-whitehouse/ http://www.ageofaces.net/2009/11/rip-cord-ruse-by-arch-whitehouse/#comments Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:49:06 +0000 Bill http://www.ageofaces.net/?p=1503 The Griffon is in the air to solve another high flying mystery. When is a good dollar counterfeit? That was only one of the baffling riddles that faced Kerry Keen after he attended that fashionable night club—by request. Sure, bad money is queer, but some things are a lot queerer—getting offered half a million bucks just for putting on a 200-mile air express act, for instance. Certainly, that was one for the book. And as for the silk-hatted man of mystery who had invaded Graylands—well, that was already in the book!

]]> http://www.ageofaces.net/2009/11/rip-cord-ruse-by-arch-whitehouse/feed/ 0 “Guile of the Griffon” by Arch Whitehouse http://www.ageofaces.net/2009/09/guile-of-the-griffon-by-arch-whitehouse/ http://www.ageofaces.net/2009/09/guile-of-the-griffon-by-arch-whitehouse/#comments Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:42:23 +0000 Bill http://www.ageofaces.net/?p=1440 Join Kerry Keen and Barney O’Dare as “The Griffon” returns with another exciting adventure.

Down through the ebony night dived a strange, black amphibian. Glistening in the reflected light of the great Montauk beam, it glided to the water and taxied to a ramp where two men stood in the shadows. And from the cockpit of that eerie craft crawled a hideously deformed creature—a man whose very existence was a cruel mockery of the grave. “I built—” he croaked, leering at the taller man, “not one plane, but two. The other,” he continued in a queer cackle, “went to a man whom you, Keen, will kill—though as yet you’ve never even heard of him . . . .”

]]> http://www.ageofaces.net/2009/09/guile-of-the-griffon-by-arch-whitehouse/feed/ 0 “Sea Hanger Snare” by Arch Whitehouse http://www.ageofaces.net/2008/03/sea-hanger-snare-by-arch-whitehouse/ http://www.ageofaces.net/2008/03/sea-hanger-snare-by-arch-whitehouse/#comments Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:06:39 +0000 Bill http://www.ageofaces.net/blog/?p=637 The Adventures of the Griffon
In those dark waters off Point Judith drifted the battered wreckage of a proud foreign fighting plane bearing the bullet-riddled body of a noted pilot. Propped on the instrument board before that stark form was a compass card which carried on its back a cryptic message. Upon that message depended the naval safety of America. Yet that dead pilot had never known that penciled scrawl existed; the person who had scribbled it had not understood what he had written there—and the man to whom it was addressed could not understand what he read there…

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