"Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine" returns with issue #16, presenting the best in modern and classic mystery fiction! Included this time are the usual column by Dr John H. Watson, plus the following works: <P> The Ironic Story of The Stevenson-Doyle Letters by Gary Lovisi</br> The Contributions of William S. Baring-Gould, by Daniel DiQuinzio</br> A Medieval Mystery, by Peter James Quirk</br> Happy Birthday, Birthday Girl! by Richard A. Lupoff</br> ...
"Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine" returns with issue #18, presenting the best in modern and classic mystery fiction! Included this time are the usual column by Dr John H. Watson, plus the following works: Screen of the Crime, by Kim Newman<br> Mr. Holmes, by Lynne Stephens<br> Matters Mathematical, by S. Brent Morris<br> Novel vs. Screenplay: How I Love Thee, by Lisa Cotoggio<br> A Breton Homecoming, Part One, by Peter James Quirk<br> The Adventure of...
Black Cat Mystery Magazine is a new journal devoted to the best in mystery short fiction. Crime? Noir? Cozy? Private eye? You'll find all genres present and accounted for – with new tales by the best writers of today! The second issue features contributions by Michael Bracken, John Hegenberger, John M. Floyd, BK Stevens, and Debra H. Goldstein, plus a classic reprint by Melba Marlett. <P>Complete contents:<P> THE CLEANSING SOIL, by Charlie Hughes<BR> SKIRTS, by Michael...
Black Cat Mystery Magazine is a new journal devoted to the best in mystery short fiction. Crime? Noir? Cozy? Private eye? You'll find all genres present and accounted for—with new tales by the best writers of today! The fourth issue features the following lineup:<p> THE SHOW MUST GO ON, by Michael Bracken<BR> EMILY AND ELODIE, by Dara Carr<BR> PARTNERS IN CRIME, by Tracy Falenwolfe<BR> RHONDA AND CLYDE, by John M. Floyd<BR> THE IDEA, by Charlie...
Fun-crazy Kim Rumshaw refused to wall herself away from any available men just because she was engaged to Howard Massey. So when gangster Eddie Tarino invited her to play love games on his yacht, she was eager and willing to go. <P> Later Kim wa just as eager to forget the whole affair. But Tarino had other plans. And when Massey was beaten up and her aunt threatened, she turned to private detective Rod Striker for help. <P> Rod sent his curvaceous partner, Myra, as a decoy to...
Playing With Dynamite <P> Tormented by a satin-skinned package of dynamite who offered him ecstasy unfettered by convention…Bedeviled by another woman who wanted a master…Given 12 hours to get out of town–And then framed for murder… <P> This was the grim situation faced by Todd Corwin shortly after he came to Longport seeking Julie Steadman's killer. <P> If he cleared out of town he was sure of safety. If he stayed, nothing was certain except more trouble with the...
Author turned amateur sleuth Paisley Sterling returns in a new mystery! When Paisley overhears two busybody gossips talking at the gym, little does she realize it's the beginning of a new mystery…<P> "Do you really think he murdered her?"<P> "I tell you, Crystal, she'd never been sick a day in her life! The woman was a walking, talking, medical miracle. Winston used to say if everyone in Rowan Springs were as healthy as Millicent Grazziani, he would have to hang...
Women have been disappearing, snatched off the streets in the early morning hours. One body has been found. The pressure is on to find the perpetrator and put a stop to this.<P> It’s bad enough that Jesse Damon is paroled on a murder conviction, and the police take a serious look at him whenever there’s trouble in the neighborhood. But when two girls report an attempted carjacking at three in the morning, and Jesse is picked up walking on the street a few blocks away, things go downhill...
"When Old Goldie, a prospector rumored to have had a hidden gold mine, passes away, he leaves an envelope addressed to «„T. A. F.“» It contains only a photograph of a small cabin.<P> Who was Old Goldie, and who is T.A.F.? Is there really a mine? Ted Wilford and his friend Nelson Morgan set out to answer these questions. If the mine exists at all, they soon realize, it must be on Thunder Mountain. From that point the race is on. A mining engineer, a secret code, a Native American, a...
In the open market in Chicago, a tiger snake could have been bought by a circus for $10. But the particular snake for which Jake Jennings was willing to pay a small fortune was the key to a great mystery. The grand climax is an absolute surprise, and no reader will be able to say, «I knew it from the beginning.»<P> Here is fiction that is stranger than truth. It contains one of the most perplexing and labyrinthine mysteries ever conceived by the human mind.