Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Mystery & Detective - Collections & Anthologies

In "The Cloak" Sharon, a licensed practical nurse working at a local nursing home, has many interesting patients in her care. Another nurse, criticizes her in regard to one of their patients, then she turns up missing. Sharon finally finds the man of her dreams, and quits...

Then there is Harm, who is living the good life with his wife and family, until the arrival of a letter announcing an additional member that he hadn't counted on, or even knew about.

Charlie finds his dream girl and marries her, only to give everyone at the wedding reception the surprise of their lives.

And then there is Paddy O'Toole, a gangster wannabe....

James Heafield and crime-solving partner Oliver Bradbury are two detectives who investigate murders. Individually neither can admit to being too bright but, with help from each other, they somehow manage to trace the killers and arrest them. Along the way, Heafield and Bradbury come across many sub-plots, unusual situations and recurring characters that will have you laughing for hours...

This time the body is in the East River.

But they are not the only ones about to have a rough day. Serial-killer Kirk Lester is about to have troubles at home and he will be in a very bad mood afterwards.

That is how "The Necessary Shot" begins, one of five original screenplays by Jeffrey Len Street. "The Necessary Shot," along with "Avenged Desire, Soldiers from the Free Clouds, Triangle" and...

"The Comfort of Strangers." Who is killing the gay men in Jackson Park, can Detective Jones solve a riddle, and save his badge at the same time?

The Pewter Masks When Usher and Anasette rent the famed old whorehouse in downtown Denver to stage a sculpture and jewelry show, they find the missing weapon. That reopens a long dead case, involving the murder of the fabled owner...

Not just another collection of rehashed police stories with shootouts, car chases, and damsels in distress, "Reflections from the Pit" contains individual, quirky, off-center characters. The stories focus on basic character flaws while dealing with social issues of the day-racism, sexism, prejudice, homelessness, segregation, and...

"The Nickel Trophy" An unusual commission offer for the apparently simple task of sculpting a memorial to a boy, accidentally killed 40 years ago, turns hazardous, raising suspicions as to the real cause of death. Usher must sort through feuding communities and shattered dreams to come up with the Nickel Trophy.

"The Bronze Bones" An elderly blind client accused Usher of making silver masks of ringers instead of her twin granddaughters. While clearing his name, he runs into massive frauds, murders, political corruption and even the Chicoms. However, meeting Tanner Jones, the fossil man,...

Not just another collection of rehashed police stories with shootouts, car chases, and damsels in distress, "Reflections from the Pit" contains individual, quirky, off-center characters. The stories focus on basic character flaws while dealing with social issues of the day-racism, sexism, prejudice, homelessness, segregation, and...

The judges of World Wide Writers' Contest comments as appearing in "Writers' Forum" regarding Dummy's Murder Between Hands, "A marvelously funny murder mystery...in the classic Agatha Christie mold. The narrator is a kind of Lord Peter Wimsey who solves the murder and has his readers in stitches on the way...a take-off of the classic murder mystery."

Then there is Harm, who is living the good life with his wife and family, until the arrival of a letter announcing an additional member that he hadn't counted on, or even knew about.

Charlie finds his dream girl and marries her, only to give everyone at the wedding reception the surprise of their lives.

And then there is Paddy O'Toole, a gangster wannabe....