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The original 1939 blurb for this story reads: "Molding corpses stalk darkness as fate cuts a grim, macabre jigsaw of death!" Today you would accept a zombie story, as with the hit TV show "The Walking Dead," but in the original pages of the pulp magazine Thrilling Mystery, you get the opposite — a classic crime story by one of the best pulp writers of the era. The dead may walk, but there... [click here for more] |
Wildside Press |
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A new Amanda Dark paranormal mystery! For fans of the series this will be the darkest, most gut-wrenching mystery Amanda has faced yet. After her father dies a terrible family secret surfaces involving murder and sexual abuse. She and Phillip Swann travel to Moonrise Arizona seeking answers at the haunted Moonrise Diner where she confronts the ghost of her late uncle. The mystery deepens when her... [click here for more] |
53rd Street Publishing |
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When Miss Emily Jackson’s friend Janet Highvin is accused of poisoning her husband, Miss Emily immediately consults her friends Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson. Only Holmes and Watson—with help from Miss Emily’s brown Burmese cat Mandalay—can uncover the truth and save an innocent woman from the hangman!
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Wildside Press |
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When Miss Emily Jackson's brown Burmese cat Mandalay brings her a partially unraveled knit vest, she consults her friends Sherlock Holmes and John Watson.
They follow the trail of wool and discover evidence of a horrible crime.
Can Watson's medical expertise save a child's life, and can Holmes discover who is willing to kill a child, and why?
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Wildside Press |
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Miss Emily Jackson's Burmese cat Mandalay often brings home odd items -- but a bloodstained alpaca?
Her friends Sherlock Holmes and John Watson investigate a murder in a circus, leading to threats on Miss Emily's life.
They race to discover the ruthless murderer and keep Miss Emily safe.
Note: This digital edition includes the PDF, EPUB and MOBI (Kindle) versions of the book.
... [click here for more] |
Wildside Press |
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When Miss Emily Jackson's brown Burmese cat Mandalay brings her a glove, a pocket watch, and a bloodstained handkerchief, she knows exactly who to consult: Sherlock Holmes.
Holmes uses these cryptic clues to rescue an injured policeman and a kidnapped noble, but there's more at stake. Can Holmes outwit a spy and retrieve documents that will, if they fall into a foreign power's hands, lead to war?... [click here for more] |
Wildside Press |
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A riotous concoction: fine dining, virtual reality, and murder. Delightfully weird.
Molly Marbles runs a successful bistro on terraformed Mars. When a virtual restaurant opens next door, offering the experience of delicacies from across the solar system with none of the calories, what will it do to her business?
Then, when the virtual restaurant’s owner is murdered in her kitchen, Molly,... [click here for more] |
Guardbridge Books |
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"I found myself entranced" "...engaging characters moving about in a world that is surprisingly vivid for a short story"
Marsden cannot remember his real name, nor how he came to be a valet for the schoolboy son of a powerful magician. Phantom wisps of incense and narrow glimpses of memory are all he has, until he chances upon a family secret which only compounds intrigue.... [click here for more] |
Aeclipse Press |
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The creator of the famous criminologist, Dr. Morelle, here gives us four stories of another brilliant detective, whom the newspapers have dubbed "The Amazing Martin Brett."
Brett appears to be selfish and lazy, and his effort at solving crimes is entirely motivated by the size of his fee. His attractive secretary (and narrator) is often the butt of his sardonic humor and sexist remarks,... [click here for more] |
Wildside Press |
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According to eyewitnesses, the victim was sitting on a park bench and talking loudly in a foreign language when he suddenly got to his feet and started flailing his arms around. Then his head fell off and the rest of his body became a human torch. By the time the police arrive, all that remains is a pile of smoldering ashes, along with an unscathed severed head.
For Detective Inspector John Dryer,... [click here for more] |
Wildside Press |
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Francis Hammerton is arrested and convicted of involvement with a gang of confidence men--a charge of which he is entirely innocent--but escapes police custody when a cell door is left unlocked. He finds refuge at a nearby boarding house, but is arrested again when he discovers (and reports) the murdered body of an upstairs tenant--and then is unjustly accused of murder.
The dead man had been suspected... [click here for more] |
Wildside Press |
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An exercise in fear, as a killer makes a bold prison escape, then takes refuge on a farm -- only to change forever the lives he threatens…
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Wildside Press |
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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... [click here for more] |
Wildside Press |
$2.24
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The fourth issue of "Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine" features Carla Coupe's new Holmes story, "The Adventure of the Elusive Emeralds,' plus tales by Stan Trybulski, Melville S. Brown, Marc Bilgrey, Hal Charles, William E. Chambers, Jean Paiva, and Roberta Rogow.
This issue's classic reprint is "The Adventure of the Resident Patient," by Arthur Conan Doyle.
Plus all the regular features, a look... [click here for more] |
Wildside Press |
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The eighth issue of Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine features the usual assortment of stories and non-fiction, including:
"Sun Ching Foo's Last Trick," by Adam Beau McFarlane "Do You Love Me?" by Marc Bilgrey "The Somerset Wonder," by Ron Goulart "The Hounds of Basketballville," by Hal Charles "Hit One Out of the Park," by Jeff Baker "Travelling Light," by John M. Floyd "Date Night," by S. A. Stolinsky... [click here for more] |
Wildside Press |
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Tour de Nesle (The Tower of Death) is one of Alexandre Dumas's greatest and most powerful plays, a tale of power and conviction, although its historical accuracy is far from certain.
Queen Marguerite and her sisters entertain themselves by luring unsuspecting men to the Tower, which located across the Seine from the Louvre. There they entice their victims to join them for wild sexual escapades--all... [click here for more] |
Wildside Press |
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Dr. Brutus Lloyd is no more than four feet ten inches tall, an amazingly gnome-like man. He's not a dwarf, simply vest-pocket size. His head has a brow like a baby cliff, capped by a tuft of jet-black hair that curled down the immense forehead. His face, though overbalanced by the brow, is powerful for all its smallness. The most surprising thing about him is his deep bass voice. A brilliant scientist... [click here for more] |
Wildside Press |
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A Johnny Merak Classic Crime Novel, Book Three
The murder of Carlos Galecci, a kingpin of organized crime, was not unexpected.
Only three days earlier, fearing for his life, he'd hired Los Angeles private eye Johnny Merak to discover who was threatening him. Then he's found seated in his private vault with a knife in his back--a vault whose combination only he knows, a vault no... [click here for more] |
Wildside Press |
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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. 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... [click here for more] |
Wildside Press |
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When financier Emerson Drew's hired killer pushes scientist-inventor Rajek Quinton down an abandoned mineshaft, Drew and his conspirators believe that the way's clear to exploit Quinton's amazing new invention, which will make them millions. But he reckons without Larry Clark of the C.I.D.--plus Quinton's uncanny scientific genius.
The police detective, aided by Drew's secretary Joyce Sutton, forges... [click here for more] |
Wildside Press |
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The four members of Dante's Delight Purgatorio do not consider what they do to be in any sense sado-masochistic. Of course, society at large takes a different view. And society at large includes Julie Whitcomb's new lover, Police Detective Dave Clayton, for whom she hopes to retire from purgatorial activity. Society at large also includes Angela Garvey, childhood sweetheart of the lad Julie hopes to... [click here for more] |
Wildside Press |
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Move over, Jessica Fletcher and Miss Marple!
Make room for another aging woman amateur sleuth--Carolyne Santire, plant-hunter extraordinaire! Carolyne's search for the next major botanical find takes her to Brazil in South America, where she encounters political machinations, mayhem, and...murder. The suspect list is long--fellow scientists, Brazilian land barons, prospectors, a cuckolded video director,... [click here for more] |
Wildside Press |
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Black Cat Weekly #30 is a fabulous issue. This time, Darrell Schweitzer has unearthed his 1980 interview with Tom Disch, which is fascinating. Disch talks about writing his classic fantasy novel, The Businessman, among other things. As Darrell always notes, these old interviews fall “somewhere between oral history and paleontology.”
Lots of mysteries this time, too—including... [click here for more] |
Wildside Press |
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Welcome to Black Cat Weekly #31.
This time, the lineup includes pretty much everything fans look for in fantasy and science fiction—time travel, pyramids, space adventure, alternate history, war, monkeys, and even Nazi spies. Does it get much better than that?
Not to forget our mystery readers, for them we have time travel, a private detective, police, international adventure, war, a solve-it-yourself... [click here for more] |
Wildside Press |
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Welcome to Black Cat Weekly #31.
This time, the lineup includes pretty much everything fans look for in fantasy and science fiction—time travel, pyramids, space adventure, alternate history, war, monkeys, and even Nazi spies. Does it get much better than that?
Not to forget our mystery readers, for them we have time travel, a private detective, police, international adventure, war, a solve-it-yourself... [click here for more] |
Wildside Press |
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Welcome to Black Cat Weekly #33.
I think you’ll find this issue particularly interesting. Darrell Schweitzer’s historic interview with C.J. Cherryh from 1978 is fascinating, since she talks about her writing process. (If you aren’t familiar with her work, you’ve missed some of the best science fiction of the last 50 years.). For mystery lovers, we have great tales from Greg Herren... [click here for more] |
Wildside Press |
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Here is the 34th issue of Black Cat Weekly, packed with more than 500 pages of great reading, with contents ranging from mystery to adventure to science fiction and fantasy. The complete contents includes:
Mysteries / Suspense / Adventure: “Skin,” by Stephen D. Rogers [Michael Bracken Presents short story] “Booked for Murder,” by Hal Charles [solve-it-yourself mystery]... [click here for more] |
Wildside Press |
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I mentioned to BCW's acquiring editor Michael Bracken that I was enjoying the mystery/science fiction crossover stories he had been selecting for BCW, many of them originals, and he confessed to challenging writers to come up with stories that mixed the two genres. I thought, Aha! So that’s where they have all been coming from! It’s a Good Thing in my opinion. And this... [click here for more] |
Wildside Press |
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Welcome to Black Cat Weekly #36.
We have another great issue featuring not one, but two full-length books—George O. Smith’s classic collection of linked science fiction stories, Venus Equilateral, and Hulbert Footner’s mystery, Officer!
As always, our acquiring editors have cooked up some delights. From Michael Bracken comes an original police procedural... [click here for more] |
Wildside Press |
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George Carter and his wife and two teenage daughters are just an ordinary family, living peacefully in the small British town of Uphill. But then they hear a bulletin that a homicidal maniac is in the area, reportedly toting a suitcase with a broken handle containing the chopped-up body parts of a female victim.
And when a new lodger appears at their house, and George discovers a women's leg inside... [click here for more] |
Wildside Press |
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America's bloody Civil War is over, leaving a legacy of bitterness, repercussions, intrigues, and many forms of villainy, not all acted out on the American continent. When the last ship of the old Confederacy docks in Liverpool, England, in 1865, the mysterious, humpbacked Mr. Fortune, carrying a burden of secrets, slips ashore and disappears into the fog of winter. And in London, private detective... [click here for more] |
Wildside Press |
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Paisley Sterling has no idea of the trouble she's getting into when she and her teenaged daughter are called home for a family funeral. Paisley's mother, the elegant and stylish Anna Howard Sterling is delighted when they decide to extend their visit after Paisley's New York townhouse is rented out from under her. Things are going well until Anna discovers she has been cheated out of a sizable inheritance.... [click here for more] |
Wildside Press |
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Pat Campbell is back -- the big man, six-foot six to be exact, with the big heart -- in a story brimming with action and suspense...
Clients were more than paying customers to Pat Campbell. they were friends -- whose problems remained his problems even after they themselves ceased to care... Wark Andross -- for one -- was certainly beyond earthly cares now. Wark was a man whom people loved without... [click here for more] |
Wildside Press |
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Once upon a time, Richard Blakemore led a double life. Hardworking pulp writer by day and the masked vigilante only known as the Silencer by night. But those days are over, for Richard Blakemore, in the guise of the Silencer, was found guilty of murdering mafia boss Antonio Tortelli and sentenced to death. But now, with Richard Blakemore on death row in Sing Sing and the date of the execution drawing... [click here for more] |
Pegasus Pulp Publishing |
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Cowabunga, schweetheart! A book in the manner of Surfing Samurai Robots! In a Los Angeles that is something like ours--but in which magic has become an integral part of society--P.I. Turner Cronyn doesn't know why he's being threatened by a supernatural being. Does it have anything to do with the fact that zombies looking like him are turning up all over town? And who killed Misty Morning, the beautiful... [click here for more] |
Wildside Press |
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"Contains the most fascinating true crime story I have ever read." --Earl Stanley Gardner
Crime, criminals, and their prosecution and punishment, have, from the day Cain slew Abel and the Supreme Law Enforcer dealt with the first fratricide, provoked the interest, aroused the passions, and puzzled the minds of men. Because tales of dark deeds are quick to catch attention and stark sensationalism... [click here for more] |
Wildside Press |
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"Buff" Orpington arrived in picturesque Quanomet to find the little Cape Cod town in ferment. A stupendous pageant of American history was being staged, and the inhabitants of Quanomet had time and thought for nothing else. But all was not as it should be in the small community. There had been more curious incidents than could be attributed to the usual petty jealousies and maneuverings for the best... [click here for more] |
Wildside Press |
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With the renewal of the Cold War, the Security Services in the West were jittery: a saboteur could, now, as never before, destroy a fantastic amount of material, production potential, and infrastructure. Civilization had grown so unbelievably complex that it was hopelessly vulnerable to an internal enemy. And an atom bomb could be carried in a suitcase. Now that nightmare had become a reality. An enemy... [click here for more] |
Wildside Press |
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1991: A plan to destabilise Hong Kong is emerging; the key players are being put into place, the wheels are in motion and innocent people will die. Frank Bowen is a Londoner on holiday in tropical Thailand. Half drunk and strapped for cash, he’s the perfect bait for a political plot that will leave him running for his life, with nowhere to turn. An international conspiracy thriller by Jay... [click here for more] |
Bonafide Media |
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Richard Shaw thinks he's been blessed when he and his new bride Beryl survive a car smash. Both make rapid recoveries from their injuries, both have apparently fully recovered. But Beryl is strangely changed. As the doctor tells Richard: “As far as we can tell medically, she is normal again, except for one thing--the way she looks at you. I don't think I have ever seen such a strange light in the... [click here for more] |
Wildside Press |
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Ernest Favenc (1845-1908) is a neglected master of Australian supernatural and mystery fiction.
Best known for his History of Australian Exploration, 1788-1888, he was also a prolific author and journalist, writing for some of the most popular and important literary journals in colonial Australia. His considerable output is now largely forgotten, even among aficionados of weird and mystery fiction.... [click here for more] |
Wildside Press |
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A charismatic new governor. A radical political movement. An overzealous central government.
When libertarian Republican candidate Paul Spooner is elected Governor of New Hampshire, his policies set the tiny, independent-minded state on an inevitable collision course with the Federal Government. President Bennet Oliver can't let his signature new healthcare law fall prey to the failings of similar,... [click here for more] |
J.P. Medved |
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In some parts of the world, self-confessed murderer Leonard Graham would have been executed, or even given life imprisonment for his monstrous crime. At his trial, he had confirmed to the court that he'd only met the man he'd shot a few hours before. Prior to that one meeting, he'd never seen him before in his life. The accused had offered no reason for his apparently unprovoked and savage attack,... [click here for more] |
Wildside Press |
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A new enemy is rising.
Someone is hunting operatives, and this time it’s not Olesya.
With Jay’s life hanging by a thread, and another kidnapped, there’s a new threat out there…
And it’s coming for them all.
Can Damien or Olesya learn the truth in time to stop it?
Or will they die trying?
If you enjoyed the first book, this will blow you away.
What readers... [click here for more] |
Anomaly Press |
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Sophia was the Fifth Column’s most dangerous weapon.
Now she’s their greatest threat.
Sophia is taking out Fifth Column operatives before they can complete their deadly missions.
But will a new type of operative tip the balance against her?
Ambushed in Eastern Europe, she barely escapes with her life.
But the new operative isn’t her only threat. A deadly Russian... [click here for more] |
Anomaly Press |
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In 1936 Harry Stephen Keeler wrote a huge novel featuring the most unreliable narrator in literary history. His publishers forced him to split the books into two volumes, The Mysterious Mr. I and The Chameleon.
Now, Ramble House has put the two novels together in one volume so you can read the whole story without changing books. Together, they are one of the most unusual books ever written.
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Wildside Press |
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Kawanga, an obscure outback town in Australia, becomes the focus of a quest for a missing ancient document. His Majesty's servant, Lord Conley, must retrieve the stolen paper before it falls into the wrong hands. Joining him are ex-martial artist Donald Brant, French femme fatale Camille, British DS Bonnington, and a motley crew of money-hungry henchman. This past-paced thriller is a nonstop adventure... [click here for more] |
Wildside Press |
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Even by Hollywood standards, Nora Frost is the stage mother from Hell. Her futile drive to turn her talentless twin sons into child superstars has left figurative bodies strewn throughout Los Angeles. But after Nora hires hapless young private detective Dave Beauchamp to investigate a letter threatening the brothers, the body count begins to mount. It's up to Dave (a recovering lawyer and serious movie... [click here for more] |
Wildside Press |
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The lady—the very rich, very beautiful lady—dazed with sleep, lifted herself on one elbow and pumped two shots at the man in her bedroom door. Later they found her, incoherent with shock, sprawled in the hallway over the pajama-clad body of her dead husband.
When they were able to question her, she said she thought she had fired at a prowler who had been terrorizing the neighborhood for... [click here for more] |
Wildside Press |
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He had found her in a quiet bar -- a sulky-mouthed, awkward, green-eyed kid trying desperately to pick up a man.
He taught her how to dress, to walk, to laugh, made her into the kind of woman who makes every man reach into his pocket for hundred-dollar bills.
Looking at her now, Sam was proud of himself. He had done a good job on her.
He was almost sorry she had to die...
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Wildside Press |
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