RACCONTO LUNGO (23 pagine) - GIALLO - Ritorna lo sgradevole professor Challenger...È il 1913 e Mycroft chiede a Holmes e Watson di tenere sotto osservazione lo scienziato più irascibile d'Inghilterra, il professor Edward Challenger, un genio molto sgradevole. I due scoprono così la trama di un omicidio e trovano alcune informazioni interessanti sul recente disastro del Titanic. Pubblicato per la prima volta in "Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine" n. 12, aprile 2014Gary Lovisi...

Giallo - romanzo breve (58 pagine) - Cos’hanno in comune un naufragio avvenuto vent’anni prima e una pietra magica che risale all’epoca dell’Esodo di Mosè?Un nuovo caso complicato e un’indagine molto pericolosa turbano il sonno di Sherlock Holmes e del suo amico, il dottor Watson.Una giovane attrice, minacciata di morte, chiede aiuto al grande investigatore. Il motivo è oscuro, nascosto nelle pieghe del tempo: cos’hanno in comune un naufragio avvenuto vent’...

In the not-so-distant future, men have come to Mars to escape the oppressive Earth government. Ryan is an agent for a super-secret government agency, the Department of Control (DOC), and has always been willing to do whatever his masters want of him. But on Mars, everything is different, and all that Ryan does is read books: hardboiled, noir crime paperbacks dating from the last century. In fact, such works are read and collected by everyone on Mars, even serving as a medium of exchange. W...

RACCONTO (14 pagine) - GIALLO - Giustizia secondo Holmes e Watson...Sherlock Holmes è stato arrestato per omicidio e tocca a Watson discolparlo, ma il detective non vuole essere scagionato dal crimine che si collega a qualcosa di più oscuro. In questo caso Holmes e Watson si fanno giustizia da sé. Pubblicato per la prima volta su "Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine" n. 2, primavera 2009.Gary Lovisi è stato nominato agli Edgar Mystery Writers of America nella categoria Miglior...

A Lust for LifeAnxious to undress, these dangerous dolls ply their womanly wares to get whatever they want: men, power and sex - lots of sex. Yet to quench their fiery desires they crave more, much more. See, even sultry sinners long for love.Bad Girls Need Love Too is a frolicking celebration of pulp fiction floozies doomed to keep looking for love in all the wrong places. Thankfully, repeating the same mistake over and over again has never been m...

It's no secret the sexy and racy cover art of femme fatales from the golden age of paperbacks and magazines exalts the female form in all its sexy and sultry allure. Still today, these lustful, passionate and sometimes lurid images are enticing and artistically inspiring.From sexy, semi-dressed pin-up dolls to dangerous bad girls and deadly dames, many of these rare covers were painted by some of the most talented and collectible artists of the last 50 years, including popular Amer...

Als Sherlock Holmes Doktor Watson tot in der gemeinsamen Wohnung findet, wird er von der Londoner Polizei festgenommen. Man verdächtigt ihn, den Mord an seinem besten Freund begangen zu haben. Eine lückelose Indizienkette spricht dafür, und sogar Mrs Hudson ist von der Schuld des Meisterdetektivs überzeugt.

by Gary LovisiA Griff and Fats crime novel(Also available in softcover format)"First-rate hard-boiled fiction. Mike Hammer probably crossed paths with Griff and Fats, who live in the back alleys of Jim Thompson country." — BooklistBay City, 1962 — a time of peace and trust, when girls hitch-hiked without a care. But for an ice-hearted killer, it's a time of easy pickings. When he kills the daughter of a rich power-broker, all hell breaks loose, and he goes o...

RACCONTO (16 pagine) - GIALLO - Un'indagine al celebre Royal Golf Club di Saint AndrewsDa un po' di tempo il dottor Watson si dedica con passione al golf, ma Sherlock Holmes non condivide il suo l'entusiasmo. Un'indagine al celebre Saint Andrews Club, in Scozia, sarà l'occasione per mettere a confronto due diversi punti di vista.Gary Lovisi è stato nominato agli Edgar Mystery Writers of America nella categoria Miglior Racconto per il suo apocrifo sherlockiano "The Adventure...

It's 1963 and tough-as-nails Bay City Homicide cops, Griff & Fats, find themselves mired in the most brutal cases of their careers. A brother cop has gone crazy off the rails; an out-of-town cop-killer is seeking revenge; they find themselves stalked by an unknown assailant in a mysterious black car; on top of all that a harvest of homicide is being reaped by a monster killing young women by the dozens. Griff & Fats find they have fallen neck-deep into a sewer of unremitting violence, murd...

When young Joseph Adler enters a small Dorchester bookstore to sell a rare old copy of The Strand Magazine - within its pages is discovered what appears to be a sheet torn from the diary of Sherlock Holmes' friend, Doctor Watson. The implications are incredible. When Adler is found dead, it is up to bookstore owner Thomas Jones, joined by his young friend, Juan Marcano, to search for clues and solve the murder in the style of their hero, Sherlock Holmes. But the older man, nicknamed Viejo,...

I spoke to the warrior, but obviously he could not understand me. I tried again in every language I knew. It was all met with the same confusion and frustration on both our parts.Nevertheless, the warrior approached me carefully and in what looked now like a peaceful manner. The red-headed girl had already left the clearing, for the warrior had spoken some words to her that caused her to run off. To where, I could not guess. The other girl with the bright green hair stood by as if ...