Professor Mandrake Smith would be unrecognisable to his former colleagues now, but the shambling, drink-addled former Professor of Anthropology at Oxford is now barely surviving in Morecambe. Here he has many things to forget, although some don't want to forget him. Plagued by the nightmares of his past, both in Oxford and Papua New Guinea, he finds himself dragged into a morass of supernatural activity centered around the deposition of fil ...
Kirk Markham returns to his home town of Leeds in 1999 after three years at university «down south.» In order to support himself while he tries to find a respectable career, he gets a job in a call center, which proves more challenging than he had anticipated, both professionally and socially. There he meets and falls in love with goth-girl Sheena, who is not like other girls, to put it mildly. Her uniqueness only makes her more attractive to hi ...
This volume collects the entire Sandy Steele mystery/adventure series. Included are:<P>1. BLACK TREASURE<BR> Sandy Steele and Quiz spend an action-filled summer in the oil fields of the Southwest. In their search for oil and uranium, they unmask a dangerous masquerader. <P>2. DANGER AT MORMON CROSSING<BR> On a hunting trip in the Lost River section of Idaho, Sandy and Mike ride the rapids, bag a mountain lion, and stum ...
Edward D. Hoch was and is the undisputed master of the mystery short story. His total output of published short fiction hovers just under 1,000 stories (estimates are in the neighborhood of 960 stories). Hoch (pronounced «Hoke») is best remembered for his fair-play and impossible crime short stories, particularly the series featuring Dr. Sam Hawthorne, a small-town physician who unraveled seemingly impossible «problems» in 1920s New England. His ...
In her first published mystery, Agatha Christie introduced readers to her Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot. When the wealthy mistress of Styles Court is murdered, Poirot is on hand to wade through the confusing clues and long list of suspects! A classic whodunit.<P> This special edition is loaded with bonus content…reviews of the era, a filmography, and a complete bonus Agatha Christie novel, «The Secret Adversary.» ...
Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine #19 features the best in contemporary and classic mystery fiction, with a great lineup of stories and columns. Here are:<P> Features:<BR> From Watson's Notebook, by John H. Watson, M. D.<BR> Ask Mrs Hudson, by (Mrs) Martha Hudson<P> Non Fiction:<BR> Screen of the Crime, by Kim Newman<BR> Podcasting, by Lisa Cotoggio<P> Fiction:<BR> A Breton Homecoming: ...
At first it was just a lark–bribing the stewards to steal food, bribing the conductors to steal blankets, raiding the club car, becoming a trainful of drunks. But then–then they began stealing morphine, and after that they began swapping mates, and after that… <P> Finally the lights went out. And a modern-day miracle of streamlined engineering was turned into a cage of evil, human beings become beasts, and for three days the meaning of ci ...
The Timelines Keep Trying to Realign! Our neighboring timeline also had its 20th-century warfare. But Act II of their Last Great War, 1939-1945, lined up somewhat differently, with Russia, India, Spain, and Japan versus England, France, Germany, and the Reformed States of America. Now, in the decade following the War, the small university town of Hodag Crossing in the state of Minnemagantic, along with the rest of the world, is hunting down de ...
