An old friend of Albert Campion, «Uncle» William Faraday, has written a successful book that has been turned into a hit musical comedy. Jimmy Sutane, an established actor and dancer, is the star of the musical. But recently someone has it in for Sutane and has started playing harmless practical jokes that have caused the highly emotional Jimmy much trauma. Jimmy asks Campion to look into who the prankster may be. So Campion takes a trip to the S ...
Killer hooks and fishy characters will lure you into this fifth anthology from the Guppies Chapter of Sisters in Crime. This volume nets you twenty-two crafty capers featuring slippery eels, wily sharks, and hard-boiled crabs. From ultra-modern computer crimes to old-fashioned confidence tricks, these tales are sure to satisfy your appetite for great short mystery fiction.<P> Introduction, by Debra H. Goldstein<BR> The Wannabe, by ...
Dust storms, water shortages, and barbed wire – all the ingredients needed for a range war! A classic short novel by Max Brand, originally published in The American Magazine in 1937. ...
A mentally ill woman waits outside a school to pick up a child with a passing resemblance to her daughter. After following a likely candidate, she persuades the girl to get in her car – and that's where things really go wrong. ...
A policeman tasked with keeping order in a seedy section of town learns he's to have a partner. They get along famously, and as the months pass they seem like a proper crime-fighting duo. Then one night they encounter the policeman's old high school rival-turned-criminal in the process of escaping a robbery… ...
