When several of the city's most respected citizens are inexplicably killed by what appear to be zombies, all Detective Terry Lane has to go on is a blue-grey glove, a Haitian pharmacy bill for some very unusual drugs and a death threat from a mysterious stranger. Matters are soon complicated when a beautiful nightclub singer shows up who claims to have information that could solve the case, but whose motives are plainly suspect. Against his better judgment, Terry investigates her lead only to fi...
The Second Mystery Megapack
by Ron Goulart, Mack Reynolds, and Arlette Lees
Book of Wild Life (Children's Encyclopaedia of Knowledge)
by Ruth Rendell
Winner of the Crime Writers’ Association John Creasey Award for best first novel, The Ice House is the mystery thriller from crime queen Minette Walters. It was evident, if there were no other entrance to the ice house, that the body had at some point traversed this thorny barrier . . . The big question was, how long ago? How long had that nightmare been there? The people of Streech village had never trusted the three women living up at the Grange – not since Phoebe Maybury's husband suddenly, i...
In the past ten years, it's become obvious that crime and mystery fiction has become the most popular form of entertainment for literary and television audiences alike. And as more readers are discovering, mystery fiction isn't limited to the longer forms. Some of the most enjoyable, startling, and memorable crime and mystery fiction can be found in the shorter lengths.
Murder, She Wrote: The Murder of Twelve (Murder, she wrote, #51) (Murder, She Wrote, #51)
by Jessica Fletcher and Jon Land
In the latest entry in this USA Today bestselling series, Jessica Fletcher takes on an Agatha Christie-style mystery when she finds herself stranded in a hotel during a blizzard with twelve strangers and a killer in their midst.... Still staying at the Hill House hotel while her beloved home is being rebuilt, Jessica Fletcher finds herself sharing the space for a weekend with a dozen members of a wedding party who have gathered there for a rehearsal dinner. The families of the bride and g...
Constable David Maratse Omnibus Edition 3 (Constable David Maratse, #3)
by Christoffer Petersen
Tales of the Great Detectives
by Chantelle Messier, Stephen Marley, and Kelly Hale
Carnival of Crime (Mystery makers)
by Fredric Brown, Francis M. Nevins, and Martin Greenberg
In these 23 stories, Brown never rails to surprise and delight. Time after time the reader anticipates the ending only to discover that once more the author has proved too clever. Yet Brown never cheats, never feeds false clues, and his endings are always plausible. His imagination is by turns puckish, grim, outlandishbut forever fresh.Brown s stories run from the fifty-word Mistake to a novelette ( The Case of the Dancing Sandwiches ). In Granny s Birthday, a two-page short short, with Granny s...
Crime Comics Confidential: The Best Golden Age Crime Comics
by Steven Brower
Relive the days when gangsters ruled the streets in this gripping collection of notorious pre-Code crime comics! True life criminals Al Capone, Legs Diamond, Pretty Boy Floyd, Dutch Schultz, Lucky Luciano, and John Dillinger are featured alongside colorful pulp fiction characters with rods ablaze. These mobsters flaunted their sexy gun molls and ill-gotten gains of big cars and fancy suits, living outside the law until getting their just deserts in the end. Features masterful creators Charles...
Ian Rankin has amassed an incredible portfolio of short stories, which all share the best qualities of his phenomenally popular novels. Now his two critically acclaimed short story collections - A GOOD HANGING and BEGGARS BANQUET - come together in one volume, along with ATONEMENT - a new Rebus story, written especially for this collection. A GOOD HANGING - Twelve Inspector Rebus mysteries, including the hanging of a student during the Edinburgh Festival, a gruesome arson attack, and the appare...
