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Sherlock Holmes makes his American debut in this fascinating and extraordinary collection of never-before-published crime and mystery stories by bestselling American writers. The world's greatest detective and his famous sidekick Watson are on their first trip across the Atlantic as they fight crime all over nineteenth-century North America. From the bustling neighborhoods of New York City and Washington, D.C., to sunny yet sinister cities like San...
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Carmella always knew she would find the love of her life in an exotic foreign country. But there's a deadly catch to it, in "Souvenir". Watching archaeologists unearth a mummified Iron Age corpse from a Danish bog gives a college professor an idea...how to commit the perfect murder, in "Bog Bodies." In "I Have Other Plans" a young executive plans to eliminate his senior partner who refuses to issue him additional stock-but someone beats him to it....
1163) The Death Box
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Detective Carson Ryder faces his most terrifying adversary yet in this nail-biting thriller from the author of Her Last Scream. Carson Ryder thought he'd seen everything. A specialist in twisted crimes, Detective Carson Ryder thought he'd seen the lowest depths of human depravity. But he's barely started his new job in Miami when called to a horrific scene: a concrete pillar built of human remains, their agony forever frozen in stone. Finding the...
1164) A Moment in Time
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A potpourri of stories about murder and the mystical interspersed with moments of mirth. A fortune-teller makes predictions that turn out to be uncannily correct — to the misery of all. A couple write to each other after a long break and spar over what secrets to reveal. A woman discovers she has the power to kill whomever she wants by supernatural means. Marr often explores the issue of time. How trapped are we by the past and particularly by certain...
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The First Volume in the Much Anticipated Series!Tune into the frequency of these "dispatches" from the mind of eleven-time Writers of the Future Contest honoree, Niz Thomas.For the first time, collect Niz Thomas' short fiction all in one place. With a multi-volume series entitled Nizpatches, you get stories all centered around a theme or genre. Volume One collects a perfect alchemy of throat-clutching suspense, noir, and the furious momentum created...
1166) Culinary Criminality
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UNCOMMON GROUNDS
A 21st-century spin on the traditional cozy- Maggy Thorsen, a divorcée whose husband left her for a 24-year-old, is eager to open a coffee shop, Uncommon Grounds, in the small Wisconsin town of Brookhills. In a world where Starbuck's and other chains are ubiquitous, Maggy is up for the challenge, which becomes even greater when Maggy discovers the body of one of her partners, Patricia Harper, on the floor of their coffee shop.
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1167) Lone Wolves: Stories
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Wild stories featuring favorite characters from the Mongo Mysteries, including Mongo's brother, Garth Frederickson, and ex–CIA agent/Vietnam vet Veil Kendry.
Three very different sleuths-an ex–NYPD cop, a psychic painter and vigilante, and a former priest-handle unusual cases in this collection from the "unlimited imagination" of George C. Chesbro, creator of the one-of-a-kind dwarf detective, Mongo the Magnificent (Publishers Weekly).
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Slices of life beyond the tourist's view. By turns funny, tough, and somber, the twenty-one helpings of New York attitude in Fresh Slices reveal neighborhoods both rich and poor, where oldtimers desperately protect their secrets and brand new arrivals indulge dangerous appetites. There is as much variety in tone and setting as in Gotham itself, and yet each of these crime stories also reflects the city's most infectious and unifying principle, that...
1169) The Protector
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A successful business owner, Yvonne Braxton is used to being in control of things. As long as life is going the way she wants it, then it's going fine. Not one for taking risks, Yvonne does something different for a change. When she does, she finds herself in a predicament that has the potential to leave her broken beyond repair. Despite her circumstances, Yvonne must find strength to activate a level of faith that she's never had previously. Like...
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The Next Volume in the Much Anticipated Series!Tune into the frequency of these "dispatches" from the mind of eleven-time Writers of the Future Contest honoree, Niz Thomas.For the first time, collect Niz Thomas' short fiction all in one place. With a multi-volume series entitled Nizpatches, you get stories all centered around a theme or genre. Volume Two collects a perfect alchemy of riveting suspense, throat-clutching tension, and the feeling that...
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The fourth collection of short stories by J. R. Kruze.Known for a unique take on common situations, and a dry wit, Kruze is also able to look at usual circumstances and see unusual aspects to write about. These stories will let you start wondering about the world around you.Mystery, fantasy, paranormal, romance and science fiction are a few of this mixed genre collection.Enjoy seeing your world through J. R. Kruze's eyes... Anthology containing:A...
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This short story, set in 1879 San Francisco, features two elderly dressmakers, Miss Minnie and Miss Millie Moffet, who face a moral dilemma of no small dimensions. They turn for advice to Annie Fuller, a widowed boardinghouse owner who supplements her income as a clairvoyant, Madam Sibyl. For those who have read Locke's any of her Victorian San Francisco mysteries, this story is set after Maids of Misfortune and before Uneasy Spirits and is an amusing...
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"...a thrilling collection of twisted crime stories, all focusing on the dark side of human nature... Well-paced and expertly written, with just the right amount of tension and excitement running throughout." – Parkiaki newspaper
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From Angelo Marcos, author of psychological thrillers 'The Artist' and 'Sleep No More', comes a collection of five thrilling short stories, each tale exploring the sinister side of human nature and the lengths...
1174) Jumble Sale
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This blend of all previously-published stories crosses many genres: science fiction, crime, fantasy, horror, humor, magic realism, and mainstream. There are fractured fairy tales, cautionary parables, peeks into disturbed minds, and amusing little romps. Everything from people with problems to giant lobsters, demonic creatures, small-time gangsters, and perverted dwarves.
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Crimes are rare in Singapore, but when there's a crime that has the police baffled, it is Inspector Zhang that they turn to. From locked-room mysteries to murders disguised as suicide, Inspector Zhang is able to draw on his experience as a detective along with tricks he has learned from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie. See if you can solve the crimes before the inspector the clues are there!
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Wild and weird tales by the author of the Mongo Mysteries-including the novella that inspired the dwarf detective's first adventure: Shadow of a Broken Man.
The "unlimited imagination" of the creator of Mongo the Magnificent is given free rein in these eleven stories full of suspense and surprises (Publishers Weekly).
An architect can read minds after surviving a fatal car wreck. The lives of schoolteachers are far from ordinary-or safe. A snake...
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This collection of fourteen connected stories and a novella, From the Secret History of Numan Abdel Hafez, takes us deep into Upper Egypt and the village of Dayrut al-Sharif, in which Mohamed Mustagab was born. To depict a world renowned for its poverty, ignorance, vendettas, and implacable code of honor, Mustagab deploys the black humor and Swiftian sarcasm of the insider who knows his society only too well. When the stillness of a day's end is shattered...
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BUBBLY, BICYCLES AND BRIDES showcases a collection of mystery and crime stories set in Minnesota in days past."Long Night's Moon" features romance and crime both, set on the first New Year's Eve after the repeal of Prohibition. In "Tillie's Big Race", a young woman training for the big time gets caught up in a bank robbery when gangsters blow through her town. "The Elopement" tells the story of a gangster's daughter on the eve of her dreaded wedding....
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A dozen wild short stories, filled with twists and excitement… Every month Stefon Mears' Patreon supporters enjoy two new short stories. Stories never published anywhere before, but collected here for the first time. In this collection you'll find tales like these… "The Case of Edmund Marsh" -- A Lovecraftian missing persons case, set in Oregon "Time for Bed" -- A dark, mystery story about a broken man dealing with a home invasion "Carjacking...
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