Fish Nets: The Second Guppy Anthology, dredges up even more thrills, chills, and gills. Like its predecessor, Fish Tales, this collection of mysteries by members of Sisters in Crime's «Guppies» group features the best of what the mystery genre has to offer–a fresh catch of mysterious murders, police procedurals, cozy characters, and hardboiled detectives–straight from the imaginations of some of mystery field's rising stars. Come on in, the water's fine! Don't mind the...
Leslie Adams doesn't often get angry, upset, or worried. So when Molly, his sister, first disappeared, Les kept calm and used his head. When he was nearly killed in a house explosion while searching for his sister, well, that rattled him a bit, but still Les kept his wits about him. Now the police are blaming him for the explosion, as well as a botched robbery in which a woman was killed. His schizophrenia is becoming a problem, he's being stalked by a mysterious woman that may or may...
Detective Maggie Reardon is back, in the sizzling sequel to The Mosaic Murder! <P> The murder that Detective Maggie Reardon just solved at a local Tucson art gallery has already created repercussions, complicating her life both legally and personally. Her new lover dropped to second place when a new man entered the picture. A dead man whose body had been found at The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum lying under a bed of cactus. What at first appeared to be a tragic accident was quickly...
The definitive 10-volume set of Robert E. Howard's weird fiction and poetry (with all texts meticulously restored to the original versions as published in Weird Tales and other magazines) continues with volume 6, GARDENS OF FEAR! This collection of classic Howard begins with the Conan story «Queen of the Black Coast,» and also includes «The Haunter of the Ring,» «The Garden of Fear,» «The Devil in Iron,» «The Voices Waken Memory,» «The People of the Black Circle,» and «A Witch Shall Be...
Ronald Wilford, cub reporter on the Cleveland Star, is asked by his editor to find a missing colleague and friend, Barry Knight, and discover why he disappeared. Knight, who pulls no punches when he writes, has many enemies among the local racketeers and shady politicians he has exposed. Ronald, with the help of his younger brother Ted (hero of The Locked Safe Mystery), uncovers a strange and fascinating puzzle. An unusual ending to this absorbing mystery is provided when Ronald is faced with an...
Ted thinks teenagers are getting a bad rap when they are blamed for vandalism. But when summer comes and the local Y camp for disadvantaged boys is vandalized, it looks bad for the kids! As Ted investigates with his friend Nelson, things take a strange turn when they see things happen that apparently couldn't. A serach for a Native American treaty in the Singing Trees Valley is mysteriously linked to the vandalism. Who are the real culprits? And can Ted unmask them in time to save the...
Kellory – the last of the Black Wolves, sole descendant of the Lost Kings of Illyrion. His fighting arm maimed, his homeland stolen, his tribe mercilessly slaughtered by the dread Thungoda Horde, he seeks revenge with the only weapon left to him – sorcery. But the secret arts of witchcraft are not easily surrendered by the Brotherhood of Darkness…<P> Across the Sea of Sand, with its plethora of terrifying spells and whispering spirits of the night, Kellory seeks the Grimoire of Yaohim –...
Weirdbook #32 presents a selection of great fantasy and horror tales by current and upcoming masters of the genre. Included are:<P> Childhood's Dread, by Taye Carrol<BR> The Other Neighbors, by Daniel Davis<BR> Rare Air, by Mark Slade<BR> The Children, by J.E. Álamo<BR> The Radiant Boy, by Kevin Wetmore<BR> The Whisperer in the Woods, by Peter Schranz<BR> Sweet Oblivion, by Andrew Darlington<BR> An Unsolicited Lucidity, by Lee Clark...