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When Arthur Conan Doyle killed off his fictional sleuth in the 1893 story "The Final Problem," distraught readers resorted to producing their own versions of Sherlock Holmes's adventures, thus inventing the now-common genre of fan fiction. These tales by famous and lesser-known devotees offer the best of early Sherlockian tributes and parodies.
Editor Douglas G. Greene's informative Introduction provides background on each of the stories and their...
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"Readers who know Scotland will glow with recognition; those who don't will want to pack their bags and maybe a gun." -Kirkus Reviews
From the Highlands to the borders, the bustling cities to the remote isles in cold seas, the unique landscapes and locales of Scotland have long inspired writers of the very best Golden Age mysteries. Beginning with the adventures of Sherlock Holmes from Edinburgh-born Arthur Conan Doyle, this new collection includes...
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When it comes to espionage and spying, what often springs to one's mind is a well-groomed English Oxford graduate with a penchant for overly-specific alcoholic beverages and womanising. However, what's most important in these matters is the unlikely, and this is perhaps one of the reasons why some of history's greatest and most successful spies have been women. This volume contains a collection of six biographical sketches of incredible female spies,...
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From the US Department of Justice, the true stories of the world's top national security agency-the FBI-revealed for the first time!
There has been much turmoil at the Federal Bureau of Investigation as of late, including the firing of James Comey, the installation of Christopher Wray, the ongoing investigation into President Donald Trump's ties to Russia, and more. The FBI Story provides a look inside at the top intelligence organization in the...
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Presenting three captivating mysteries of Arthur Conan Doyle's beloved sleuth, Sherlock Holmes, in the first-ever Omnibus collecting his comic book adventures! From young Holmes' first encounter with Dr. John Watson, to the detective's role reversal as a suspect for murder, to a rash of Liverpool killings seemingly committed by a supernatural entity, the finest whodunnits in the Dynamite Entertainment library begin with this very volume! Collects...
67) John Summers & Sylvia Corthorn: The Shocking Truth of an Ottawa Lawyer and an Ontario Superior Judge
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For most people, the premature death of Charles Floyd in the United States was yet another example of a racist police force gone wild. But the premature death of a Canadian black Jewish woman provides a revealing new perspective on police brutality and corresponding oppression in the Canadian legal system. John Summers and Sylvia Corthorn: The Shocking Truth of an Ottawa Lawyer and an Ontario Superior Judge exposes a cabal that includes the police,...
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So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of The Wrong Carlos: Anatomy of a Wrongful Execution tells you what you need to know-before or after you read James S. Liebman and the Columbia DeLuna Project's book. This short summary and analysis of The Wrong Carlos: Anatomy of a Wrongful Execution by James S. Liebman and the Columbia DeLuna Project includes: Historical context. Chapter-by-chapter summaries, detailed timeline of important events,...
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This anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together 20 tales from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form, including uncollected stories by Ngaio Marsh and John Dickson Carr. The Golden Age of detective fiction had begun inauspiciously with the publication of E.C. Bentley's schismatic Trent's Last Case in 1913, but it hit its stride in 1920 when both Agatha Christie and Freeman Wills Crofts — latterly...
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Sixteen tales that combine the otherworldly with hardboiled crime fiction-from Joe R. Lansdale, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Paul G. Tremblay, Melanie Tem, and others.
Here are the femme fatales, the tough guys, the down-on-their-luck detectives-but with a twist. Collected by Hugo and Bram Stoker Award–winning editor Ellen Datlow, these stories of the murderous and macabre will take you onto the dark streets of worlds unlike our own, where the monstrous...
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So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Helter Skelter tells you what you need to know-before or after you read Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Genry's book. Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader. This summary of Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi with Curt Gentry includes: • Historical context • Section-by-section overviews • Detailed timeline...
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Enter if you dare!
Crumbling mansions and ancient cemeteries. Haunted houses and med school dissection rooms. All are terrible places to visit on the spookiest night of the year. So, of course the authors of Speed City Sisters in Crime go there-and you can go with them. From Halloween parties to autumn festivals to trick-or-treaters, Indiana is the home of ghosts, apparitions, and in-the-flesh evil ones, in this time and yesteryear. Sixteen tales...
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So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Devil's Knot tells you what you need to know-before or after you read Mara Leveritt's book. Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader. This short summary and analysis of Devil's Knot by Mara Leveritt includes: • Historical context • Chapter-by-chapter summaries • Character profiles • Timeline...
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That stand-up sure knows how to bomb.
Delirium tremors and haunted houses might be a bad mix.
The high end gets down and dirty (and bloody).
The cat and the tattooist and the old lady and the missing man.
With this issue, Rock and a Hard Place takes lucky number seven and uses it as a knife straight to the ribs. Feel the luck bleed out in these stories of bad decisions and desperate people.
With stories by: Jason Allison, Rusty Barnes, Nils Gilbertson,...
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Gritty and unflinching morsels of crime fiction rage across these pages. There's nothing warm and cosy here, but then that's not the reality of policing: cops deal with the darkest aspects of humanity and then have to live with that exposure. Some of those cops become writers. When crime fiction is penned by authors who have worked and risked their lives as cops at the coalface, the stories that emerge deliver exquisite realism and brutally honest...
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A vibrant southern constellation of crime writers.
Dark Deeds Down Under features the very best of modern Australian and New Zealand crime and mystery writing.
Spend time with some of your favourite Aussie and Kiwi cops, sleuths and accidental heroes, and meet some edgy new investigators.
A crew of beloved series characters - Corinna Chapman, Hirsch, Sam Shephard, Rowly Sinclair, Nick Chester, Murray Whelan - will lead you down dark alleys to meet...
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Thirty years of silver blades, scarlet stains and the most elegant of heels.
Thirty years of slipping in the knife, tightening the noose, measuring out the poison.
Thirty years of whispered threats and tangled plots, of murder and mayhem.
For thirty years, the annual Scarlet Stiletto women's crime and mystery short story competition-run by Sisters in Crime Australia-has uncovered dreadful deeds, righteous revenge, deadly high-jinks and wicked shenanigans,...
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While it is generally agreed amongst criminologists that the world of crime is predominantly the domain of men, women played a much larger role than they do today before the twentieth century. Even then, women tended to commit property offences like theft, shoplifting, fraud, and forgery, as well as prostitution or soliciting. However, there have been those throughout history who have also committed some of the most brutal murders the world has ever...
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Bodies from the Library brings into the daylight the forgotten, the lost and the unknown, and the 2023 volume is another indispensable collection for crime fans.
The sixth volume of “Bodies from the Library” includes the usual eclectic mix of pre-and post-war stories by classic crime and thriller writers. Unearthed from ephemeral publications, newspapers and magazines, some of these 'lost' stories are by authors who have appeared in previous...
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