 | A Charlie Salter Omnibus: A Charlie Salter Mystery
Publication Date: October 1, 2003| Series: A Charlie Salter Mystery Eric Wright's popular detective, Charlie Salter, is introduced in this collection of the first three books in the well-loved mystery series: The Night the Gods Smiled, Smoke Detector, and Death in the Old Country. Self-righteous and outspoken, Salter has gotten himself shunted to routine duties from what he considers the "real" police work of investigation. However, circumstances give him the chance to redeem himself, and his intelligence and sensitivity guide him through the cases that follow. Interwoven in the detective wo...
 |  | White House Pet Detectives: Tales of Crime and Mysteryat the White House from a Pet's-Eye View
Publication Date: August 1, 2002The tradition of pets in the White House goes all the way back to the Founding Fathers. From the parrot and foxhounds of George Washington to Spot and Barney, the current canines of the Bushes, the First Family's animal companions have always had a special place in America's heart.These various (and often exotic) animals have enjoyed the special privileges of living in the nation's capital, giving them access to the scenes of power. So when something goes awry in the White House, who better to solve it than these pet detectivesDid Rex, Ronald Reagan's King Cha...
|  | Writes of Spring: Stories and Prose
Publication Date: March 22, 2012These short stories were written by authors asked only to use springtime as a setting and to make crime an important element of their stories. Some abandon reality a bit and delve into different genres. A few are nonfiction. Others are preview chapters from novels in progress. In short, there is something here for every taste! ...
|  | Thou Shalt Not Kill: Biblical Mystery Stories
Publication Date: October 20, 2005The greatest story ever told; the rise and fall of civilizations, empires, kings, despots, prophets and disciples; tales of love, betrayal, revenge, war, and disaster, the most fundamental and eternal myths and fables of Judeo-Christian society; the end of the world -the Bible has all of these. And now acclaimed mystery author Anne Perry has culled together an extraordinary list of writers—from Sharyn McCrumb, Carole Nelson Douglas, Robert Barnard, Marcia Talley, Susan Moody and Peter Lovesey to Sharan Newman, Nancy Pickard, Reginald Hill, Gillian Lin...
|  | The Guilt Edge
Publication Date: January 28, 2010Fifteen hard-boiled stories by the author Booklist called "one of the last true pulp writers."An honest cop marked for a fall . . . A high-upkeep mistress with a taste for strangers . . . "A master of the genre . . . One of the best" (Michael Connelly). ...
|  | Monkology: The Ivan Monk Stories
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|  | Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine #2
Publication Date: April 20, 2009The 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 features and columns! ...
|  | The Writer's Club
Publication Date: September 8, 2002Here is a short story mystery collection about four women writers that form The Writers Club. Each writer faces mysterious happenings in her life. Taylors beloved bridal chest, a wedding gift from her husband suddenly has new names carved into it. A baby monitor warns Jenna, while working on assignment, that someone is following her. Jenna is working on an investigative report concerning a famous dating service that has a scandal brewing. Amy finds an old letter in a secret drawer of a writing desk she has refinished. This letter describes a relationship th...
|  | Sherlock Holmes: The American Years
Release Date: February 2, 2010A compelling volume of original tales concerning Sherlock Holmes’ legendary time in America With an introduction by Leslie S. Klinger, editor and compiler of all three volumes of the Annotated Sherlock Holmes, this collection of ten original stories brings light to one of the least examined periods in the life of the great detective—his time in the former colonies, the United States. This Holmes is a youthful one—a young man not yet set upon his course in life and in his famous lodgings at 221B Baker Street. In Richard Lupoff ’s ...
|  | Suitable for Hanging: Selected Stories
Publication Date: January 24, 2004MYSTERY & SUSPENSE FROM AN EDGAR WINNERThe creator of Judge Deborah Knott and Lieutenant Sigrid Harald and the winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel, Margaret Maron is one of the finest contemporary mystery writers.Maron has a sensitivity about how time and place influence people and events.In Maron’s work the mystery story is as concerned with people as well as with puzzles.Suitable for Hanging contains twenty of Margaret Maron’s best uncollected short stories, beginning with an early tale of a hitman trying to escape from the mob, to her newes...
|  | THEN NOW WHENEVER
Publication Date: July 6, 2003ThenNowWhenever is composed of twelve short stories that span centuries and continents from Victorian England, to contemporary America, to the realm of vivid imagination.THEN is composed of four stories prior to the mid 1930s, three of which are set in Victorian England with an inquiry agent at the time of Sherlock Holmes. The last of the four is the story of a miner looking for work in the coal mining fields of Kentucky during the Great Depression of the 1930s.NOW is also composed of five contemporary stories. Two, regarding an ex cop from Cleveland who drinks ...
|  | Best Eaten Cold and Other Stories: A Murder Squad Anthology
Publication Date: May 1, 2012A collection showcasing the short story talents of the collective known as the Murder Squad—featuring several award-winning and highly acclaimed crime writers The Murder Squad all share a special passion for crime, which is reflected in this superb new volume of previously unpublished tales. Funny and sad, atmospheric and dark, ingenious and frightening, each of the 13 stories in this collection—two or three from each contributor—will thrill lovers of crime fiction. In "The Habit of Silence", DI Vera Stanh...
|  | San Diego Noir (Akashic Noir)
Publication Date: May 17, 2011| Series: Akashic Noir “When it’s done right, noir is a darkly delicious thrill: smart, sharp-tongued, surprising. The knife goes in at the end with a twist. San Diego Noir, a new 15-story collection by some of the region’s best writers, has all that going for it, and the steady supply of hometown references makes it even more fun.”--San Diego Union-TribuneBrand-new stories by: T. Jefferson Parker, Jeffrey J. Mariotte, Martha Lawrence, Diane Clark & Astrid Bear, Debra Ginsberg, Morgan Hunt, Ken Kuhlken, Taffy Cannon, Don Winslow, Cameron P...
|  | The Best American Mystery Stories 2002 (Best American)
Publication Date: October 15, 2002| Series: Best American Mystery Stories Bestselling novelist James Ellroy introduces this year's collection of the finest mystery writing. Many of the contributors herein are novelists themselves, displaying their talents in short story form: Michael Connelly tells a fatal tale of revenge in "Two-Bagger." In Joe Gores's "Inscrutable," the Feds beat the Mafia at their own game. Stuart Kaminsky demonstrates how horribly wrong things go when a robber gets cocky in "Sometimes Something Goes Wrong." And Robert B. Parker shows just how important Jackie Robinson's ...
|  | Grottos of Chinatown: The Dorus Noel Stories
Publication Date: March 16, 2009| ISBN-10: 1935031082 | ISBN-13: 978-1935031086Dorus Noel spent years in the Far East, and had the torture scars to prove it. Now he was back in NYC, working undercover in Manhattan's Chinatown, confronting the most insidious crimes and criminals imaginable. Burks' Chinatown is a society of strange alliances, a place of dark menace and mystery, an urban nightmare of secret passageways riddling the district like rabbit warrens, a new world under the shadow of China's past. Collected for the first time are all 11 Dorus Noel stories from the pulp, All Detecti...
|  | Some Days You Get the Bear
Release Date: October 1, 1994The bear is on the prowl in many different guises. He may be the master thief stealing into Graceland, an intense young passenger experimenting in terror, or a psychiatrist haunted by his patient's nightmare. Or maybe he's beautiful, lethal woman in a blood-red scarf. So beware of the this huge, dangerous beast. Because first he will enthrall you.. and then he will strike. ...
|  | Female Sleuths: Great Mystery Series
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|  | Crimespotting: An Edinburgh Crime Collection
Publication Date: June 15, 2010All the short stories in "Crimespotting" are brand new and specially commissioned. The brief was deceptively simple - each story must be set in Edinburgh and feature a crime. The results range from hard-boiled police procedural to historical whodunit and from the wildly comic to the spookily supernatural. ...
|  | Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine #1
Publication Date: May 13, 2008An advance edition of Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine #1 features fiction by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Carole Bugge, Ron Goulart, Marc Bilgrey, Edward D. Hoch, Hal Blythe, and Jean Paiva. Features by Kim Newman, Lenny Picker, Mrs Hudson, and Marvin Kaye. ...
|  | Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine 3
Publication Date: December 14, 2009The third volume of "Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine" features "A Volume in Vermillion," by Kim Newman, plus fiction by Bruce I. Kilstein ("Watson's Wound"), Darrell Schweitzer ("The Death of Falstaff"), Stan Trybulski ("Tough Guys Don't Pay"), Hal Charles ("Vacation from Crime"), Jean Paiva ("Workout"), and Peter King ("Mayhem in St. Mary Meade"). Plus nonfiction by Lenny Picker ("The Non-Solitary Cyclist"), Gary Lovisi ("Notable Holmesian Paperback Pastiches & Other Oddities"), and Bob Byrne ("Meet Nero Wolfe"), as well as features by John H. Watson, M.D...
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