"Coincidence? She didn't think so. In her mind, every incident has a purpose. I'm trained to think coincidences are just that. She didn't believe the coroner's report. I'm a detective with Attention Deficit Disorder. I know… an odd choice of jobs. We met 'coincidentally,' and that led to murder." ...
Sheriff Mat Scott admitted to himself he was just a Hick Cop, but sometimes a hicktown lawman picks out some clues that the city cops overlook . . . and gets his man for murder! ...
As consciousness returned to him, Thane fought to push aside the thick curtain of nausea and pain which blanketed his mind. Somewhere in the distance a telephone was ringing with evenly spaced insistence, and Thane tried to struggle to his feet to answer it.<P> “A minute…jus’ minute,” Thane mumbled thickly.<P> He managed somehow to push himself upward on his elbows. Pain lanced molten shafts of agony into his temples and he groaned ...
Father Brown is a fictional Roman Catholic priest and amateur detective who is featured in 53 short stories published between 1910 and 1936 written by English novelist G. K. Chesterton. Father Brown solves mysteries and crimes using his intuition and keen understanding of human nature.<P> Chesterton loosely based the character on the Rt Rev. Msgr. John O'Connor (1870–1952), a parish priest in Bradford, who was involved in Chesterton& ...
Father Brown is a fictional Roman Catholic priest and amateur detective who is featured in 53 short stories published between 1910 and 1936 written by English novelist G. K. Chesterton. Father Brown solves mysteries and crimes using his intuition and keen understanding of human nature.<P> Chesterton loosely based the character on the Rt Rev. Msgr. John O'Connor (1870–1952), a parish priest in Bradford, who was involved in Chesterton& ...
It is very difficult to classify THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY. It is possible to say that it is a gripping adventure story of murderous criminals and brilliant policemen; but it was to be expected that the author of the Father Brown stories should tell a detective story like no-one else. On this level, therefore, THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY succeeds superbly; if nothing else, it is a magnificent tour-de-force of suspense-writing.<P> However, the ...
"Art Taylor is the author of The Boy Detective & The Summer of ’74 and Other Tales of Suspense and the novel in stories On the Road with Del & Louise. His work has earned the Edgar, Agatha, Anthony, Derringer, and Macavity Awards. He is an associate professor of English at George Mason University. www.arttaylorwriter.com <P>Restoration"« by Art Taylor was originally published in Issue One of Crime Syndicate Magazine.» It was ...
Signor Valentini stepped from his car, regally adjusted his fur-collared coat, bowed to the cheering crowd, and strode to the portals of his luxury hotel which he was about to open officially. He glanced at its architectural majesty with great pride. It was here he hoped to spend his declining years. He intended to make people speak of the hotel, not as the Superba, but as ‘Valentini’s.<P> With solemn dignity, Valentini inserted the golde ...
Yancey, a no-good deadbeat, has been borrowing money from his successful friend, a doctor, for years. When Yancey comes in one day and pays back all the money that he's borrowed, how he got it is quite a tale…one that may leave him dead! ...
