Carla Bowman is a young and beautiful society girl with wild blood coursing through her veins. She becomes the honey of King Logan, a gangster operating the protection racket on New York's East Side, and is caught up in a maelstrom of violence and bloodshed. When Sylvester Shapirro cuts in on King, Carla decides to double-cross the gang-leader and join Shapirro, a decision she regrets when she faces him in his fantastic house at Montauk Point. Here she learns the horrifying secret of...
She was the kind of woman a man always noticed, mostly because of her eyes: deep and dark, they'd held a warmth that could easily kindle a fire in one's soul. Now they were staring sightlessly up from the sidewalk. It was a killing without a motive, just the first of a string of murders that led Johnny Merak, private investigator, from the teeming underworlds of Chicago and Los Angeles to the edge of the New Mexican desert, trailing a killer who left no clues. But Merak knew the Mafia,...
Lyn McConchie transports us to Victorian London, where Sherlock Holmes and John Watson must solve two cases involving Poisonous People.<P> A POISONING AT THE PUBLISHER: Maid and occasional cook Mary Fellowes has been accused of attempting to poison her employers and the evidence against her is damning – or is it? Is she the scheming and vengeful woman that others describe? Or is she innocent, caught in a web of deceit? Holmes and Watson must follow the evidence, exposing long-buried...
Gale Gallagher's father was a New York cop. The police station with its green lights was the place her dad worked, and the Policemen's Ball was the magic Cinderella dance she dreamed about as a little girl. Instead of the Bobbsey Twins, she read the police news and the latest murders as reported in the tabloids. Today Gale Gallagher has her own business – the Acme Investigating Agency – which specializes in collections and skip tracing. Her work is to collect from the bad debtor and...
LOVED TO DEATH!<P> Actually, she hadn't been worth getting involved with.<P> Yet, the fact remained that a lot of men had. And one of them had been more involved than anyone could know.<P> A cozy, one-bedroom apartment and an engraved anniversary present put George Harmon Coxe's celebrated private detective, Sam Crombie, onto the trail of four men. All had loved the same woman. All had eventually left her. One had left her dead…
If you're poor in the hills of Appalachia and don’t have the skills to succeed in the 21st Century, what path is left? You try what you can and you do whatever it takes to survive. Survival, not always easy in hill country, is the common theme in these three stories from West Virginia.<P> WICKED WOMEN<P> When a man wrongs his woman in these hills, there’s only one thing to do: get even. For the women of Peach Tree Hollow, who have no cash, no connections, and no clout, this is...
When Cthulhu calls . . . W. Paul Ganley answers! This volume collects a treasure trove of Cthulhu Mythos and dark fantasy stories – all told, a baker's dozen – by the World Fantasy Award-winning editor of WEIRDBOOK magazine! The 13 stories featured are:<P>ANCIENT EVIL<BR> OTHERS, WHO ARE NOT MEN<BR> ESSENTIAL SALTES<BR> I AM HUMAN<BR> WORMS<BR> FALLOUT<BR> THE VAULT OF KARNUNNA<BR> THE GREAT HERO<BR> IN THE TEMPLE OF...
Called to Yemen to help her old friend Halima, correspondent Elizabeth Darcy combines work with the chance to repay an old debt. But the narrow, mysterious streets are populated with armed men and veiled women; who can tell friend from foe? Her first priority is to help Halima's young brother Ali, who has become involved with religious extremists. But murder dogs her footsteps, and she is under police surveillance. <P> Abducted along her investigative trail, Elizabeth is drawn into...
It starts for movie buff Dave Beauchamp, L.A.'s most hapless P.I., when the tomato walks into his office. At least that’s how she's dressed. But the woman in the tomato suit is not what she seems…and the restaurant she's promoting, which is owned by a powerful religious cult, harbors a deadly secret. «Aided» by the voices of classic film stars inside his head, Dave struggles to disentangle a web of corruption and murder, or die trying. Both suspenseful and laugh-out-loud funny,...
The 22nd issue of Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine features new and classic mystery tales – including a brand new Nero Wolfe story! Included are 7 stories, a poem, all the usual features, and more:<P> Features:<P> From Watson's Notebook, by John H. Watson, M. D.<BR> Ask Mrs Hudson, by (Mrs) Martha Hudson<p> Non Fiction:<p> SCREEN OF THE CRIME, by Kim Newman<BR> BETTER THAN HOLMES? by Terry Teachout<BR> "I’M THE OLD MAN," by Dan...
Alan Nelson was not a prolific writer, and as far as I know he wrote (or at least had published) only short stories. No novels. However, these stories are true gems. They originally appeared in some of the most prestigious venues for short fiction of the 1940s and 1950s. Many of Nelson's fantasy tales first appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, where they were very popular, but his stories also appeared in Bluebook, Weird Tales, and even Cosmopolitan. Wherever these...