 | Danger in D.C.: Cat Crimes in the Nation's Capitol Publication Date: November 15, 1993This witty collection combines America's cat-mania and love of mysteries with its other major source of entertainment: those who run our federal government and the infamous town in which they reside. Contributors include Carole Nelson Douglas, John Lutz, Sharyn McCrumb, Bill Crider, and others. ...
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 | The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown and Other Stories ...
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 | Death of an Inquisitor ...
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 | The Cruel Plains Publication Date: July 27, 2007Did Billy the Kid really present a magnificent Arabian horse to a friend as a going away gift - or is this part of the tangled mythology of the Texas desperado? Was a man named "Pink" Higgins one of the best gunslingers in West Texas history - or merely a mighty accurate shooter with his favorite .45 who didn't take kindly to derogatory words about himself or anyone in his circle?These and other tantalizing nuggets from the Old West are posed in The Cruel Plains by Michael J. Price and George E. Turner, a fascinating and informative new collection of short stor...
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 | Criminal Appetites ...
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 | A Box of Tricks ...
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 | Detective Short Stories - November 1937 Publication Date: March 27, 2007MASTER OF LIVING DEATHby E. Hoffman PriceBarrett evades a living torture by the skin of his teeth.A GEM OF A MURDERby James HallThe deluxe crime is right up two-fisted Jud Christopher's alley.MURDER SERENADEby Donald Barr ChidseyA lady screams, tough dick Rorty comes by, and a couple of public enemies wish they were elsewhere. ...
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 | Carnival of Death, the (Stories from the Golden Age) Publication Date: February 21, 2011| Series: Stories from the Golden Age Discover intrigue and suspense. Working deep undercover to break up a purported drug ring operating at Shreve's Mammoth Carnival, US narcotics agent Bob Clark discovers first one and then another headless body. Others believe the gruesome murders are solved after four tribal headhunters working for the show suddenly disappear, but Clark suspects someone else is the real killer. When he finds himself seized by the very same headhunters, Clark sincerely hopes his hunch is right, since the point of a very sharp knife is ai...
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 | Death Wish and Other Stories ...
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 | Day of Wrath: A Mystery Publication Date: May 13, 2002Nicholas Peverell has returned to his manor house in Sussex after visiting King Henry VIII at court to find that his loyal steward has been murdered---strangled and thrown from the manor house tower. Nicholas immediately decides to launch an investigation. He also has to deal with the unrest among the monks at his priory---King Henry is trying to reform the church and the plight of the monks is as yet unsure---could they somehow be involved? Nicholas' problems are further exacerbated when beautiful and talented local girl Jane Warrener tells him she has overhear...
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 | Continental Op (Crime Masterworks) Publication Date: July 15, 2004| Series: Crime Masterworks (Book 38) Dashiell Hammett is the true inventor of modern detective fiction and the creator of the private eye, the isolated hero in a world where treachery is the norm. The Continental Op was his great first contribution to the genre and these seven stories, which first appeared in the magazine Black Mask, are the best examples of Hammett's early writing, in which his formidable literary and moral imagination is already operating at full strength. The Continental Op is the dispassionate fat man working for the Continental Detective ...
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 | Crimes of the Heart (G K Hall Large Print Book Series) Publication Date: July 1995| Series: G K Hall Large Print Book Series A collection of fourteen original short works follows themes offatal attractions and includes Sharyn McCrumb's ""Matchmaker,"" BarbaraD'Amato's ""Hard Feelings,"" and P. M. Carlson's ""The Rosewood Coffin,or the Divine Sarah.""--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
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 | Chronicles of Crime Pb Publication Date: November 4, 1999In this second memorial anthology, more leading British and American crime writers have contributed stories, with a breathtaking range of settings and sleuths, for every fan of historical and modern crime. ...
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 | Counsel for the Defense and OT (Five Star First Edition Mystery) ...
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 | Chasing Diablo and Other stort Stories Collection Publication Date: September 20, 2011A collection ofthree short stories. Two Police novels and one Family Story. ...
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 | Case of the dead Tourists: A Maine Murder Mystery (Volume 1) Publication Date: February 25, 2012"Indeed, she had been dead it looks for many hours. Some poor soul had washed up on the beach. This was unheard of here in this small coastal town where there has not even been the hint of crime for decades. " And this was just the beginning. A Maine Murder Mystery to fascinate all. ...
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 | Bone Dance: A Ladies Killing Circle Anthology Release Date: October 1, 2003| Series: A Ladies Killing Circle Anthology (Book 1) Music may soothe the savage breast, but in this fifth collection of witty and wicked crime fiction from the Ladies' Killing Circle, music provides the background for tales of murder and mayhem. Eighteen stories by Canadian women crime writers along with poems from Joy Hewitt Mann take their inspiration from titles as varied as the upbeat "Wake Up Little Suzie" through the romantic "Summertime" and musicals such as "There's No Business Like Show Business". It's a collection you won't want to put down until you'v...
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 | The Christmas Mystery Publication Date: October 1, 1996The author of the critically acclaimed Sophie's Worldpresents a Christmas adventure about a boy who discovers a magicalAdvent calendar in the corner of a dusty bookstore that takes him on anamazing holiday journey that reveals the true mystery of the Nativity.Read by Isaiah Sheffer....
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 | Casebook of Sherlock Holmes ...
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 | Crime After Crime Publication Date: February 1999The world's most devious minds deliver killer mysteries. ...
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