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Receiving an ominous recent photograph of the fundamentalist father he believed long dead, Earl Marcus returns to the Georgia mountains of his childhood to confront his father's fanatical supporters and unravel the truth about the sinister disappearances of local teens --
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"...she left her son the sum of four hundred million francs." When the heirs to a tremendous fortune are nowhere to be found, Don Luis Perenna, a friend to the deceased, must track them down. But it isn't long before someone turns up dead and the investigation turns into a murder case. And where is master thief Arsène Lupin in all this? He's believed to be dead, but are things what they seem?
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Mark MacFarland, former Denver Police Detective, lost everything-his job, his home, his hope for the future--after the man who killed MacFarland's wife was acquitted of the crime. Now, after three years living homeless and drunk on the streets of Denver, he sells hot dogs from a cart located a block from where he used to work. He's putting his life back together, until he is asked to solve a murder that pits him against the man who had wronged him...
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Young Tom Flannery thought he had it all. A great job helping out the Maintenance crews at the Pepsi Center-especially during hockey season, the best time of the year, a great girlfriend, a new car, and lots of money. But his good fortune comes to an end when he is killed and his body is dumped in a pile of snow in one of the Arena's parking lots. Sydney Morgan, and then Felicity Davenport, both come to Mark MacFarland, a former disgraced Denver detective...
5) Lucky stiff
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When a paraplegic who recently won a huge casino jackpot dies in a house fire, all bets are off as deputy coroner Mattie Winston and detective Scott Hurley, convinced that he was murdered for his money, take a gamble on the wrong suspect.
6) Board stiff
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Sorenson, Wisconsin's deputy coroner Mattie Winston takes on the murder of Bernie Chase, the president of Twilight Nursing Home's board of directors, who was found with a mysterious substance on his body and had been suspected by some of offing the home's more expensive residents.
7) False Start
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Nick Ramey, a gangster money handler, finds himself at the wrong end of a bellhop's gun, when he's robbed of a case full of money. But Nick may have the last laugh after all!
9) The Big One
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They planned to kidnap a little boy, hold him for ransom, and collect a big payoff. Nothing would happen to the kid-Garvin promised. What could possibly go wrong with their big score? A classic crime novella ripped from the pages of the Sept. 1960 issue of Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine!
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A dose of religion! MacFarland's sister-in-law wants to improve MacFarland's life, and what better way to do that than to get him involved with a church? Not just any church...the Church of Blessed Grace which promises you not only spiritual happiness but economic success. How could one go wrong with that combination?
Being a rather cynical and suspicious person, MacFarland is a bit dubious about this church. When he discovers that the girl he has...
11) Shelter Skelter
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Edgar Rolfe is a private detective who only wants to eat his lunch in peace. But a frazzled woman ruins that opportunity when she comes in with talks of her brother being killed in a hit and run. Now it's up to the detective to find out who did it. The third in the Edgar Rolfe series. A series of short stories set in the fictional town of Brixton, New Jersey in the year 1978.
12) Azabu Getaway
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Money isn't everything. It's the deadly thing.
After the murder of a high-flying executive in one of Tokyo's wealth management firms, Detective Hiroshi finds himself investigating the financial schemes that secure the money of Tokyo's elite investors. His forensic accounting gets sidetracked, though, by a second murder and the abduction of two girls from the home of a hotshot wealth manager.
The abducted girls are the daughters of an international...
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Mark MacFarland, a former detective with the Denver Police Department, always knew that the Mile High City had a seamier side, but it had never been his particular playground. After all, despite its lurid reputation, Denver's kink community was relatively peaceful and unobtrusive.
That all changes when Thorne Rose, a submissive participating in a BDSM "scene" dies. At first the death is ruled accidental…but that all changes when the ME discovers...
14) Mobster Gumbo
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Edgar Rolfe is a private eye who is trying to drop a few pounds. Maybe the local mafia, the Corbucci family, can help him with a new fitness regimen when they hire him to sneak into the Brixton zoo to steal back a lighter.The fourth in the Edgar Rolfe series. A series of short stories set in the fictional town of Brixton, New Jersey in the year 1978.
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From author C.S. Edwards, comes a new mystery set in the small town of Lovely.
Discover what evil lurks in the shadows as Samantha Roberts puts her life in danger, and their love on the line, helping Detective Daniel Drake unravel this mystery..... WELCOME TO LOVELY.
Lovely is a charming place tucked deep in the Appalachian Mountains. One hot August morning, the sleepy little town awakens to the horrific murder of the beautiful, yet troubled,...
16) The Lazy Lawyer
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Most of the time, Defense Attorney Jerry Baker asked MacFarland to find the evidence he needs to get one of his usually guilty clients a lesser sentence or even off the hook. Most of the time, MacFarland does so because he trusts Baker's judgment about people. But this time, it's different. This time it's Jerry Baker who is accused of murder.
Jerry Baker is the prime suspect in the murder of his co-counsel. The evidence looks bad: a gun that had...
17) Tokyo Traffic
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Running from a life, she didn't choose, in a city she doesn't know, Sukanya, a young Thai girl, loses herself in Tokyo. With her Bangkok street smarts, and some stolen money, she stays ahead of her former captors willing to do anything to recover the computer she took. After befriending Chiho, a Japanese girl living in an internet café, Sukanya makes plans to rid herself of her pursuers, and her past, forever.
Detective Hiroshi Shimizu leaves the...
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The New Caldonia Quartet always had problems getting along with each other. Arguments over what music to play, how to interpret it, who should get the most center stage time, even what costumes to wear plagued them ever since the four members came together to form the group. At an attempt at a friendly meeting of some of the members of the group, Paula Gurley, a friend of the talented viola player Suzanne Cousins, dies. The group finds itself under...
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"Why should Lupin, who has never resorted to murder, kill a man?" Falsely accused of murder after one of his burglary victims is found dead, gentleman thief Arsène Lupin is determined to solve the case. However, things are never as they seem, and Lupin must juggle pseudonyms, disguises and mysterious clues, all while evading an unknown enemy who wants to bring him down.
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The 10th issue of Black Cat Mystery Magazine features another great lineup of original crime and mystery fiction, plus one classic reprint. Here are:
ORIGINAL STORIES:
THE LAST GASP, by H.K. Slade
SPOOK, by Emilio DeGrazia
OUT OF A FOG, by Barb Goffman
EL PESCADOR ZURDO, by Tom Larsen
A BLUE UMBRELLA SKY, by R.S. Morgan
DEATH WILL GIVE YOU A REASON, by Elizabeth Zelvin
THE MANNEQUIN GRAVEYARD, by Gregory L. Norris
SAVING THE INDIANA DAE, by Vicki...
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