"Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine" returns with issue #17, presenting the best in modern and classic mystery fiction! Included this time are the usual columns, a terrific selection of genre-related nonfiction, and the following great stories:<p> His Latest Bow, by Timothy S. Greer<br> An Unlikely Hero, by Peter James Quirk<br> Brooklyn’s Elusive “Mr. G”, by Albert Ashforth<br> Red Jacks Wild, by Kim Newman<br> Bus-ted, by Laird Long<br> Dead...
Baffling robberies from locked rooms, cunning crimes and mysterious murders…these were all part of the stock-in-trade of Miss Victoria Lincoln, private detective. Called in to investigate the case of the Haunted Gallery, she had occasion to call on the help of Caroline Gerrard, a pupil at her old College. Impressed, she invited the girl to become her assistant after she left College. Thereafter Caroline assisted the detective in a series of bizarre cases that had baffled the police and appeared...
William Deacon, magazine journalist and sometimes detective, suddenly heard himself say, «Okay, if you want to sail on the Montmartre, I can get us aboard.» He made one phone call, and to the bewilderment of his true love, Twit-Twit, and his true friends, Tom and Betsy Dolan, all four found themselves outward bound for Europe on the supposedly sold-out pride of the line. And thereby lies a trail to America's sexiest movie star (Merrilee), her fears of a fate worse than a fate worse than...
Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine #24 features the best in contemporary and classic mystery fiction, with a great linup of crimes and columns. Here are:<p> Features:<BR> From Watson's Notebook, by John H. Watson, M. D.<BR> Ask Mrs Hudson, by (Mrs) Martha Hudson<p> Non Fiction:<BR> SCREEN OF THE CRIME, by Kim Newman<BR> COP ROCK, by Eugene D. Goodwin<BR> THE LOVELY CASTOR BEAN, by O’Neill Curatolo<BR> CONAN DOYLE, HOLMES, WATSON, AND...
When Janice and Tommy Brooks are invited to visit their Aunt Annabelle and her son Hubert at their new house in Maine near the Canadian border, they expect to have a wonderful summer. What they don’t expect is to hear galloping hoofbeats in a rock or to see an old man with a flickering light appear out of nowhere in the middle of a midnight storm. They don't expect to have a guest who creeps around the top floor when he thinks the family is asleep. And they never dream that they might get...
Weirdbook returns after a nearly 20-year hiatus under the editorship of Douglas Draa! Here are great fantasy and horror tales by current and upcoming masters of the genre…<P> Chivaine, by John R. Fultz<br> Give Me the Daggers, by Adrian Cole<br> The Music of Bleak Entrainment, by Gary A. Braunbeck<br> Into The Mountains with Mother Old Growth, by Christian Riley<br> The Grimlorn Under the Mountain, by James Aquilone<br> Dolls, by Paul Dale...
Burt Keating had been trying to make the acquaintance of his pretty red-headed neighbor but he wasn’t getting very far until the day she escaped from a strange roadside encounter. For when it turned out that murder had resulted from the affair, she threw herself hysterically into Burt's arms, pleading for his help. <P> It seems she had inherited a sealed box, whose contents were entirely unknown. Certain parties wanted that box badly. They had offered her a fortune – or sudden...
Emily Lawrence knows it isn't easy being the first – and so far, only – woman detective in late 19th century Washington DC. With the support of Charles, her husband and business partner, and her own talent for observation and scientific research, Emily tackles the most baffling cases, helping the police solve robberies, kidnappings, and even murder.<P> Although the work is exciting, it’s also dangerous; Emily and Charles must balance their pursuit for the truth with the desire to...
When two fast-thinking copy shoot it out with Harry Derby and bring him in for the murder of a grandmother, they aren't taking any chances. They «add» a little evidence to help make the charges stick. After all, they both know Harry is guilty. They did a good job. So good that Harry is sure to get the electric chair…even if he's innocent!<P> Herbert Brean (1907-1973) was an American journalist and crime fiction writer, best known for his recurring series characters William...
"Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine" returns with issue #14, presenting the best in modern and classic mystery fiction! Included this time are the usual columns by Dr Watson and Mrs Hudson, plus the following works: <P> Sleuthing: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow, by Jacqueline Seewald<BR> Lost in Translation, by John M. Floyd<BR> "Diamonds", by Kelli A. Wilkins<BR> In Memoriam: A Vignette, by Stan Trybulski<BR> The Mystery of the Missing Money, by Mary...
Gyron de London, most powerful–and most hated–industrialist of the year 2190, is warned by a mysterious letter that his doom is due on the 30th March, three weeks hence. Further anonymous letters repeat the message. The frightened tycoon takes every precaution, even to sealing himself in a steel, radiation-proof cube surrounded by armed guards – but death overtakes him on the specified day, exactly as forecast! <P> Since no one had entered the cube after the industrialist was seen to...