June Johnson seeks excitement as she leaves behind small town Minnesota for San Francisco. But big city life brings along with it blood and terror as she witnesses a gang murder. Under The Witness Protection Program US Marshall Durst leads June through four identities only one step ahead of the deadly gang. She mutates from country girl to chic city model and back to country girl again. Along the way she meets a lover and ...
This anthology features some of the most famous authors writing at the peak of their careers! Volume four of Master of Noir has the following ten great stories: THE PICKPOCKET by MICKEY SPILLANE, I DON'T FOOL AROUND by LAWRENCE BLOCK, MAN WITH A SHIV by RICHARD WORMSER, THE FLOATER by JONATHAN CRAIG, SWAMP SEARCH by HARRY WHITTINGTON, FACE OF EVIL by DAVID ALEXANDER, TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF by WILLIAM CAMPBELL GAULT, THE FAST LINE by ...
Author(s): Lawrence Block & Mickey Spillane & Richard S. Prather
Zion, the artist, has a passion for art and searches for the most beautiful women to grace his gallery. He loves his subjects, touches them, kisses them, but not before beheading them. In death, they are preserved for eternity. Yet, one eludes him. One with psychic abilities to match his own and she's always beyond his reach. He will stop at nothing to possess her in life or in death and make her his showcase ...
Dairy farmer Ruth Willmarth struggles with a mad cow plague, a squatter family of volatile Irish Travellers, a beautiful runaway woman--and Murder. According to Kirkus Reviews: "The masterfully evoked terror of Mad Cow makes Ruth's fifth her most sharply focused yet." Mystery by Nancy Means Wright; originally published by St. Martin's Minotaur
From a master of suspense comes a chilling new novel that explores the dangers lurking closer than you think. Because even in the perfect family, you never know what is going on behind closed doors.... This is what happened... It was a case guaranteed to spark a media feeding frenzy--a young mother, blond and pretty, disappears without a trace from her South Boston home, leaving behind her four-year-old daughter as the only witness and her ...
Lew Archer was out for a little target practice. Just a deserted old estate in the canyon where Archer could get away from the Hollywood rat race and sharpen his shooting skills down in the meadow. But he found two things there he wasn't expecting. One was a crazy old vagrant that had set up in dilapidated gatehouse. And two was a glittering red object on the ground. It was a red enameled fingernail that ...
This anthology features some of the most famous authors writing at the peak of their careers! Volume three of Master of Noir has the following ten great stories: THE KILLERS by JOHN D. MACDONALD, ATTACK by ED McBAIN, JUST WINDOW SHOPPING by LAWRENCE BLOCK, SIX FINGERS by HAL ELLSON, STRANGER IN THE HOUSE by THEODORE PRATT, MAY I COME IN? by FLETCHER FLORA, COP FOR A DAY by HENRY SLESAR, PRECISE MOMENT by HENRY KANE, ...
Author(s): John D. MacDonald & Lawrence Block & Ed McBain
Our September/October double issue features stories by Doug Allyn, Robert Barnard, Brendan DuBois, Mary Jane Maffini, Joyce Carol Oates, Bill Pronzini, Kristine Kathryn Rush, Marilyn Todd, Dave Zeltserman, and more.
CONTENTS:
Fiction: THE SCENT OF LILACS by Doug Allyn
Passport to Crime: THE DIVERGENT MAN by Marc R. Soto
Fiction: TANGLE BEACH by David Braly
Poetry: LEGEND? by Jane Paynter
Fiction: TONTINE by Peter Turnbull
Reviews: BLOG BYTES by Bill Crider
Fiction: MR. ALIBI by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Department of First Stories: ADMINISTRATIVE LEAVE ...
