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

John Davis, is alone in this world. Through his family's constant moving, he has no friends. Through the death of his mother, he has no one. He lives with his father, Albert, but there is no comfort, no security, no stability in his home. The death of his mother, Katherine, has always remained a mystery to John. Something wasn't right. Was Albert hiding the truth of her death from him? Was he hiding something else? Something darker. Something sinister.

Through a serious of events John discovers what Albert has been hiding from...

Confront murder, mayhem--and your own mysteries of being.

From a corporate giant's kidnapping of a rabbi, to the disappearance of the clarinetist in a klezmer band, to four rabbis' use of their text interpretation skills to help a detective solve a murder that one of them has committed, this unique collection of mysteries will enlighten you at the same time it intrigues and entertains.

While featuring enough death and deception to keep the detective protagonists on their toes, each story presents the uncertainties that are a part of contemporary Jewish...

Featuring Stories by, Michael Bracken, Kenneth Gwin, Michael Chandos, Warren Bull, Peter H. Denton, JoAnne Lucas, Karen Gough, J.J. Lamb, Craig Faustus Buck, Patricia Dusenbury, Herschel Cozine, Diane A. Hadoc, Wenda Morrone, Jan Christensen, Ross Baxter, Rosemary McCracken, Steve Shrott, Bobbi A. Chukran, Timothy O'Leary, Margaret Lucke, Albert Tucher, KM Rockwood

A dozen Australian authors were tasked with writing a short story that revolved around the many and varied meanings of the word 'obliquity'.

What is obliquity?

OBLIQUITY DEFINITION
1. deviation from moral rectitude or sound thinking
2. deviation from parallelism or perpendicularity
3. indirectness or deliberate obscurity of speech or conduct,
an obscure or confusing statement

Seventeen short stories have been brought together, connected by an interpretation of a single word. Some writers saw humour, others saw drama. Some entered worlds...

Nothing's ever easy when Sherlock Holmes is involved. Joanna Watson needs sports and academic scholarships if she is going to make it all the way to med school. That means keeping out of trouble, and her school record squeaky clean. But upon befriending the mysterious New Girl, Joanna has her perfect record ruined, skips school for the first time in her life, and finds a blackmailer aiming a gun in her direction. All she knows is that she's going to get grounded... if they get out of this alive.

The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories - Part V: Christmas Adventures features contributions by: Bob Byrne, Derrick Belanger, Amy Thomas, David Marcum, Denis O. Smith, C.H. Dye, Marcia Wilson, Julie McKuras, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Bert Coules, John Hall, Jim French, S.F. Bennett, Narrelle M. Harris, William Patrick Maynard, Vincent W. Wright, James Lovegrove, Arthur Hall, Nicholas Utechin, Mike Chinn, Tracy J. Revels, Roger Riccard, Wendy C. Fries, Paul D. Gilbert, Jan Edwards, Molly Carr, S. Subramanian, Peter K. Andersson, Matthew J. Elliott, Hugh Ashton, and Mark Mower, with a poem...