Here for your reading delectation are 25 outre tales of crime. Since history has proven that there is nothing unusual or unexpected about the human (or inhuman) drive to break the law, it should come as no surprise that the weird, the strange, the supernatural, and the just plain odd often, in fictional form, manifest themselves allayed to the criminal element. Included are:<P> THE WINDOW OF HORRORS, by H.L. Mencken <BR> THE FOOTSTEPS ON THE STAIRS, by William J. Wintle<BR> ...
The wayward beauty who comes back to her old hometown to titillate her ex-boyfriend (now a married lawyer) and to blackmail her ex-husband is ripe bait for murder. And murder is just what she gets. Suspicion falls heaviest on the old flame and not on the discarded husband – for very obvious reasons. At the time of the lady's demise, the lawyer was out of his legal mind, befuddled by a number of those potent concoctions known around the cocktail table as gimlets. In the second place, he was...
Three ambitious men had three things in common. Each was called Curly. Each aimed to marry the town's tempting heiress. Each had made love to Avis Pisano – the wanton whose mangled body was fished out of the swamp. Each one was capable of cold, ruthless action if his plans for the future were threatened…but only one was capable of murder!
