On a silver dish the Christmas pudding reposed in all its glory.
A large football of a pudding, a piece of holly stuck in it like a triumphant flag
and glorious flames of blue and red rising round it.
There was a cheer and cries of...
There’s something special about Max. He may look like your regular ginger flabby tabby, but unlike most tabbies, he can actually communicate with his human, reporter for the Hampton Cove Gazette Odelia Poole. Max takes a keen interest in the...
There’s something special about Max. He may look like your regular ginger flabby tabby, but unlike most tabbies, he can actually communicate with his human, reporter for the Hampton Cove Gazette Odelia Poole. Max takes a keen interest in the...
Eleven stories from Shamus Award-winning crime novelist Ed Gorman that demonstrate both his range and his storytelling versatility.
The collection opens with “All These Condemned,” the story of two brothers and one shocking secret, and “A...
Butterbean knew she wasn’t always a good dog. Still, she’d never considered herself a BAD dog—until the morning that her owner, Mrs. Food, fell in the hallway. Admittedly the tile was slipperier than usual, mostly because Butterbean had just...
HOW CAN A MAN WHO’S ALREADY DEAD BE WANTED FOR MURDER?
Three years ago, sports agent Myron Bolitar gave a eulogy at the funeral of his client, renowned basketball coach Greg Downing. Myron and Greg had history: initially as deeply personal...
When Mark Shillingford commentates on a race in which his twin sister Clare, an accomplished and successful jockey, comes in third, he can’t help but be suspicious. As a professional race-caller, he knows she should have won.
Did she lose on...
THERE ARE MANY WAYS TO KILL A MAN...
Chinese assassins prefer a knife. Others use bare hands.
American pros favor high-powered guns. Russian killers choose dynamite.
There’s just one man who can defeat the many ways of death. His...