The 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 year was 1900, the place was London, and the night, an unusually warm one for September, began and ended with horrors. I was caught up in them almost without warning as I turned into a narrow, poorly lit, cobbled lane and instinctively slowed my pace. Ahead of me, where the passage took a sudden bend to the right, a small gas lamp glowed feebly, and its uncertain, wavering light produced oddly distorted shadows." <P> "Byways to Evil" takes the reader through the rich...
Sherlock Holmes Mystery Megazine returns with its September/October 2013 issue, presenting the best in modern and classic mystery fiction! Included this time are the usual columns by Lenny Picker and Mrs Hudson, plus the following stories: <P> Eldritch, My Dear Watson, by Darrell Schweitzer<BR> Sherlock Holmes and Science Fiction, by Amy H. Sturgis<BR> The Adventure of the Docklands Apparition, by Mark Wardecker<BR> The Problem of the Three Edwardian Pennies, by...
"The Torture Trust" they called themselves–that unholy trio who met in a hidden room in a deserted part of the city. Brilliant men by day, leading scholarly and productive lives as far as the police and the outside world were concerned, secretly they donned black cloaks and ran an organization of evil … for «The Torture Trust» threatened their blackmail victims with a terrible acid bath, leaving a trail of faceless corpses to bear mute testimony to their power! Fearless, alone, Secret Agent...
One of Keeler's best, this is the second half of the notorious Marceau case, where a strangler baby dangling from an autogyro may have done the deed. Written in 1935 at the peak of Keeler's powers. <P> Xenius Jones, Chief Inspector of Scotland Yard, gave the exact date he would reveal the details of the infamous André Marceau murder. Then Alec Snide, an American reporter, broke the case before he did! But Jones insists that Snide is 100% wrong—and he’s got the 4-dimensional...
I had just begun taking off my jacket when the door quietly opened and two men slipped swiftly into the room. <P> One was Frankie. The other I was seeing for te first time and not liking what I saw. Both were armed. Frankie had changed his his toy for a mansized .38, which he held in his gloved right hand.<P> No one spoke a word. The stranger tilted his gun toward the center of my face. Frankie swung his at the girl on the bed, planted his feet solidly, and fired five times into...
FRAMED!<P> Marcia Carr was dead. Rack Ramsey had loved her–but not enough to be framed for her murder!<P> What part had Marcia played in Bowen's filthy narcotics racket? Why was Sara Colvin so frightened of the suave Blake Bowen? How did Marcia's ten million dollars figure in the strange partnership of gambler Phil Stark and widower Jeff Carr? Puzzling pieces in a fantastic pattern for murder…<P> But over all was Rack's terrifying realization that had he not...
"My guiltiest pleasure is Harry Stephen Keeler. He may been the greatest bad writer America has ever produced. Or perhaps the worst great writer. I do not know. There are few faults you can accuse him of that he is not guilty of. But I love him." – Neil Gaiman<P> It all began with a mysterious black satchel stitched closed with silver wire. Mrs. Matilda Hunter, Jerry Evans’ landlady, finds the satchel and leaves it in his room – and then is heinously murdered. Before long, Jerry...
Texas cowboys Billy Birthday (aka Shortcut) and Wallace F. Fidgle (aka Tapes) are touring Florida to see the lighthouses there. In the midst of a storm, they give a ride to a jogger who turns out to be the governor of Florida. And as soon as they drop him off, he's murdered. Stuck in a hotel on remote Gasparilla Island by the vicious tropical squall, the pair are accused of murder by the Lieutenant Governor, who has them arrested them and begins building a case against them. Meanwhile,...
He was a tall, cleanly attractive young man, the kind you'd like to have for a neighbor. Press the wrong button and he'd mow you down with the ruthlessness of a Sherman tank. His name was Daniel Port. He was a gangster, the brain and spirit behind the machine that milked the dirty pennies from the city. Now Port wanted out. He had a bellyful of corruption, a one-way ticket to New York, and a dark, shining girl to go along with it. The problem was to get there alive, because the one way...