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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....

More than 200,000 words of great crime and suspense fiction

Each year, Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg, editors of The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, have reached farther past the boundaries of the United States to find the very best suspense from the world over. In this third volume of their series they have included stories from Germany, Belgium, and the United Kingdom as well as, of course, a number of fine stories from the U.S.A. Among these tales are winners of the Edgar Award, the Silver Dagger Award of the British Crime Writers, and other major...

Sport, fitness, games and murder are the main themes of this collection of wicked and witty crime fiction and poetry by the Ladies Killing Circle, who brought you Menopause is Murder and Cottage Country Killers. From the gym to the golf course to the supposedly peaceful practice of tai chi, murder, rage and revenge refuse to respect the human quest for immortality through fitness and can victimize the most tanned and toned bodies as easily as those of couch potatoes and gourmands. Excessive good health can lead to an early demise in this energetic new anthology. You ll watch your back in...