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Interviews ? Bill Crider (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine) Articles ? Justice by Peter Enfantino ? The Riddle of the Ellery Queen Selects Series by Steve Carper ? Magazine of Horror by Peter Enfantino ? RAWL: Writing for... See More
After dying in a freak accident, Matt Cahill inexplicably "wakes up" three months later with the disturbing ability to see things -- terrible things -- that others cannot. Drafted as a warrior in the battle between good and... See More
Mystery
Dr. Sally Good, chair of the Department of English at Hughes Community College has learned how to cope with the many minor disasters and a couple of major ones, including a murder, that have cropped up since her tenure... See More
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Dr. Sally Good, head of the English and Fine Arts Division of the Hughes Community College in Texas, has her hands full. On top of dealing with the numerous complaints from testy faculty members concerning the allocation of... See More
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Sally's husband has been dead for eight years; his remote ancestor, the witch Sarah Good, died on the scaffold in Salem more than four hundred years ago. Yet the president of Sally's college is afraid the story will reflect... See More
Short Stories
From a host of bestselling and award-winning authors come the stories from the darkest corners of their imaginations featuring one of the most abhorrent acts of mankind; cannibalism! Throughout history, human beings have... See More
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Nominated for the Shamus Award for Best First Private Eye Novel PI Truman Smith has become a loner after failing to find his sister Jan during a recent search of Galveston Island. He jogs on the Seawall, plays with his... See More
Westerns
Lizzie Randall, the preacher's daughter, is murdered. The men of the west Texas town are set on lynching Paco Morales, a Mexican teenager who happened to be in the vicinity at the time. No proof, but, after all, he is only a... See More
Mystery
After he failed to find his missing sister, whose remains finally turned up in a bag in an overgrown field, Texas PI Truman Smith retired to become a housepainter on Galveston Island. But when an alligator is killed and its... See More
Westerns
Everyone knew her. A lot of them like her. One of them killed her. Jeanne Clinton was a pretty and well-liked woman -- though in her younger days she'd been known to be a bit wild. But she married an older man and settled... See More
Literature & Fiction
Matt Cahill is working security at a traveling carnival, seeking a respite in the lonely battle against the supernatural entity known as Mr. Dark. But that's not going to happen. He can sense something isn't right, almost as... See More
Literature & Fiction
Welcome to Wolf Creek. Here you will find many of your favorite authors, working together as Ford Fargo to weave a complex and textured series of Old West adventures like no one has ever seen. Each author writes from the... See More
Westerns
Welcome to Wolf Creek. Here you will find many of your favorite authors, working together as Ford Fargo to weave a complex and textured series of Old West adventures like no one has ever seen. Each author writes from the... See More
Westerns
Welcome to Wolf Creek. Here you will find many of your favorite authors, working together as Ford Fargo to weave a complex and textured series of Old West adventures like no one has ever seen. Each author writes from the... See More
Literature & Fiction
Welcome to Wolf Creek. Here you will find many of your favorite authors, working together as Ford Fargo to weave a complex and textured series of Old West adventures like no one has ever seen. Fort Braxton has a... See More
Anthologies
Smoke 'em if you got 'em, then set your jaw and steel your stance, 'cause BEAT to a PULP: Round Two is here! It's all meat, no filler in this red-raw-and-oozing collection of twenty-nine tales of pure pulp action. You'll... See More
When someone finally moves into the old, dark, musty house next door, two boys make an unusual friend. "I always thought that vampires had to have names like Dracula or Vlad or Lestat, but that was before Fred moved into... See More
Foreign Languages
It's often said that everyone has a book inside him or her -- but how do you plot it? In MAKING STORY, edited by the Edgar- and Macavity-nominated author Timothy Hallinan, twenty-one novelists--who have written more than 100... See More
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Sheriff Dan Rhodes tackles five tough cases with compassion and humor. Killers, crooks, cats, cattle, cranks, and ice cream. Plus recipes! See More
Westerns
Lee Strate has been shot and left for dead by two men who stole every penny of his $5000 fortune. His life is saved by Jack, a freed black man who agrees to help him track down his money. Heading to Galveston, they discover... See More
In this latest Sheriff Dan Rhodes adventure, Bill Crider sends the small-town Texas lawman to investigate the apparent theft of a set of false teeth from one of the elderly residents of the Sunny Dale Nursing Home. The case... See More
Mystery, Thriller & SuspenseCrimespree Magazine Issue 67 features a special conversation between Lawrence Block with the late Bill Crider. Interviews include Michael Barson chatting with Max Allan Collins, who also talks about completing the work of... See More
Short Stories
The Anthony-nominated collection of crime stories without guns -- the collection we didn't want to be necessary -- is back for Volume 2. Two dozen more crime writers have come together to raise their voices and take pen in... See More
Short Stories
Picking up from where our last issue left off, we have another group of crime stories written especially for us. Starting with ex-police detective Lissa Marie Redmond whose short fiction has appeared in anthologies like... See More
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
For lovers of romantic 1940s mysteries, Humphrey Bogart gets a chance to go beyond his tough-guy screen persona and actually help solve a blackmail and murder plot -- with him as the intended victim! Humphrey Bogart and... See More
Mystery
Following Booked for a Hanging, Anthony Award-winner Bill Crider brings back his amiable, computer-phobic sheriff Dan Rhodes to investigate a murder that may or may not be related to a recent wave of emu-rustling. For an... See More
Mystery
It's been a while since Sheriff Dan Rhodes's football days, but things haven't really changed, at least not with state playoffs coming up and excitement for the local high school team heating up to a fever pitch. But then... See More
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Texas Sheriff Dan Rhodes' cases usually concern the bad boys of rural Blacklin County, or the slightly wacky citizens who are causing trouble that tends to be funny rather than criminal. But although at first the dead man... See More
Literature & Fiction
Four great Wolf Creek books for the price of one! Beneath the mask, Ford Fargo is not one but a posse of America's leading western authors who have pooled their talents to create a series of rip-snortin', old fashioned... See More
Literature & Fiction
Available for the first time in a single collection, eight stories featuring the World's Greatest Detective, Sherlock Holmes, written by award-winning author Bill Crider. Return to 221B Baker Street as Holmes and his trusty... See More