The latest installment in the Chesapeake Crimes mystery series focuses on working stiffs–literally! Included in this collection are new tales by: Shari Randall, C. Ellett Logan, Karen Cantwell, E. B. Davis, Jill Breslau, David Autry, Harriette Sackler, Barb Goffman, Ellen Herbert, Smita Harish Jain, Leone Ciporin, Cathy Wiley, Donna Andrews, Art Taylor. Foreword by Elaine Viets. ...
The second issue of SHERLOCK HOLMES MYSTERY MAGAZINE includes contributions from Darrell Schweitzer («The Adventure of the Hanoverian Vampires»), Marc Bilgrey («You See, But You Forget»), David Waxman ("Tough as Diamonds?), Ron Goulart («The Mystery of the Flying Man»), Gary Lovisi («A Study in Evil»), Jean Paiva («Max's Cap»), M.J. Elliott («A Reputation for Murder»), and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle («The Musgrave Ritual»). Plus the usual featu ...
The seventh issue of «Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine» is another fine selection of tales about Sherlock Holmes, or in the Sherlockian spirit. <P> Fiction:<P> The Dead House, by Bruce Kilstein<BR> A Letter from Legrand, by David Ellis<BR> An Old-Fashioned Villain, by Nick Andreychuk<BR> The Premature Murder, by Michael Mallory<BR> The Double, by Janice Law<BR> The Way It Is (novel excerpt), by C ...
He calls himself «Thanatos» («Death»). But Clyde Daschner is actually the worst serial killer of the twentieth century, a man who admits to having murdered over 750 innocent victims–through shooting, stabbing, bombing, poisoning, and terrorism. He regards himself as an «Artist of Death,» a man who's creating a virtual world peopled with the digital analogs of the men, women, and children he's slaughtered. And now he's on the trail ...
Life doesn't stop being complicated just because you're dead. <P> In the old days, vampires were sexy, ruthless, and evil. They could, and would, compel the living to do whatever they wanted. They owned the night. Unfortunately, being undead in modern times has unexpected and disturbing challenges. <P> Now nine authors take an amused, and sometimes grim look at the problems some vampires face in the twenty-first century ...
Zombies are relentless, ravenous creatures, and their insatiable appetite for living flesh has given author Mark McLaughlin plenty of food for thought. In BEACH BLANKET ZOMBIE, you will sit down to a feast of zombie stories – seventeen in all.<P>Zombies can rise from the dead for countless reasons. Any horror-movie enthusiastic can tell you that. Sure, a zombie's bite can turn its victim into one of the living dead. But that's no ...
The Craig Kennedy Scientific Detective Megapack collects 25 novels and stories. 14 are Craig Kennedy tales, plus there is 1 additional story from the same author and 10 by contemporaries of Arthur B. Reeve. They all share the same spirit of detection. <P> Included are: <P> INTRODUCTION: ABOUT ARTHUR B. REEVE AND HIS CRAIG KENNEDY STORIES<BR> THE SILENT BULLET, by Arthur B. Reeve<BR> THE WAR TERROR, by Arthur B. Ree ...
Dick opened the door again swiftly, Vera clinging to him–and they were so astounded at what they saw that he forgot for the moment to slam the door shut again. For the phantom was there–clearly visible in the sunlight, which now blazed across the upper half of the great window. A strange, incredible caricature of a being hung in the dusty air, a haze of blurry light surrounding it from the back. There was the pointed tail, the simian ears, the l ...
When rising young artist Clive Hexley, R.A., vanishes, his friends suspect foul play. Chief-Inspector Calthorp of Scotland Yard is called upon to look into the disappearance, and his investigations lead him to question Hexley’s ex-fiancee, Elsa Farraday. Farraday writes horror-tinged mysteries under a pseudonym, and lives by herself in an old house in the English countryside. She eventually confesses that she murdered the artist and threw his bo ...
