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Prize-winning reporter Jim Qwilleran and his extraordinary Siamese cats Koko and Yum Yum always land on their feet. This special volume includes the first three books in the series.

The Cat Who Could Read Backwards Modern art is a mystery to many-but for Jim Qwilleran and Koko it turns into a mystery of another sort.

The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern Reporter Qwill isn't thrilled about covering the interior design beat. Little does he know that a killer has designs on a local woman featured in one of his stories.

The Cat Who Turned On and Off Qwill and Koko are...

From one of the finest sisters in crime (Los Angeles Times) and a New York Times bestselling author comes a remarkable anthology of her best short writing, including two new Decker/Lazarus crime-fiction stories.

Lawrence Block, Simon Brett, Ken Bruen, Christopher Coake, Stephen Collins, Tom Franklin, Jonathan Gash, Steve Hamilton, H.R.F. Keating, Laura Lippman, Bradford Morrow, Ian Rankin, John Sandford, William G. Tapply, and John Westermann, along with introductory comments by Otto Penzler, deliver up an ace anthology of original short stories that mix murder and mystery on the fairway. This collection is sure to appeal to sports fans and those eager to read stories by the most celebrated authors in the mystery genre.

Lawrence Block, in Keller by a Nose," asks what obsession holds more hazards than betting on the ponies. The answer will surprise you...Max Allan Collins's "That Kind of Nag" proves that it's bad to play the wrong horse, but worse to pick the wrong woman..."The Great, the Good and the Not-So-Good" by H.R.F. Keating warns against old English ladies at the racecourse...Joyce Carol Oates shows how a young woman teams to trust a prize stallion more than her violent lover in "Meadowlands..".and Scott Wolven's "Pinwheel" offers a Japanese lesson in flying horses and honor among thieves."--BOOK...

Undoubtedly the best-known detective in literature, Sherlock Holmes was the creation of British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), who endowed his super sleuth with an extraordinary facility for solving crimes. Drawing on his remarkable powers of observation and deduction, coupled with an encyclopedic knowledge of crimes and criminals, Holmes seeks out his prey in the London underworld, where no evildoer is safe from his keen wits and tenacious pursuit.
Reprinted from a standard text, this inexpensive volume offers mystery lovers a choice selection of six of the finest Sherlock...

This second volume of hilarious, socially incorrect 'who done it' mystery short stories by Charles E. Schwarz is filled with unforgettable Dickensian characters and is a joy as the readers try to spot the villain. This is best illustrated by the title's story,

These are an off-hand collection of short mysteries that have happened in my life that used real people with no names or events.

In "Candle Man" a small town is terrorized. Burning candles appear on the porches of many old wooden homes. Then the women come up missing. Darla, a young woman living with her aunt, discovers her aunt missing after burning candles are found on her porch. Through much investigation, the candle man (or woman) is caught.

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...

Here are twelve stories from thriller writer Howard Losness, beginning with the tale of a man who refuses to act his age. You'll read about the deal he makes with a Mr. Sattan in return for his youth and the consequences thereof.

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....

Ten short stories designed to imitate and mock some of the great fictional detectives of the 20th Century in a unique and entertaining style. This is a surreal but very humorous insight into the crime genre.

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...

It seems NYC Detectives Jon Streetson and Leo Sevine are going to have another rough day. They have been tracking a cross-dressing serial-killer for months and another body has been found.

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...

"Ten to Midnight," the story of two men hell bent on revenge. When the dust clears one will be dead and the other wishing he was

"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?

SET AN ACTRESS TO CATCH AN ACTRESS Angela Benson inherits a fortune when her Aunt Maud is murdered, but the killer is never found, and suspicion continues to cloud her life. Then as Angela s career begins to take off, new evidence comes to light that throws her back into the center of a murder investigation. As Angela prepares for the role of Amanda in Noel Coward s Private Lives, she finds herself embroiled in a sinister play beyond the footlights. To Catch an Actress and Other Mystery Stories is a new collection of short stories by Elizabeth Elwood, whose murder mystery play, Casting for...

This Volume VI, a collection of 'who done it" mysteries is filled with nasty characters doing very nasty things in funny and outrageous ways, as exemplified in "Murder at BB's Big Bash" (A Lonely Detective Mystery) where one finds idealistic teachers devolving into cynical desperate people as liquor flows and the chip bowl empties, and one guest leaves feet first.

Are you bored with characters who are too good or too evil to believe, tired of plots about threats to the world by sinister evil gangs, tired of the obligatory sex scenes? Welcome to 13 everyday nasty type people talking hypocritically and doing despicable things leading to murder. Can you solve these 'who done it' murders, given sufficient clues?