Attempting the perfect murder, a killer encounters the perfect cop in this short story by Special Edgar Award and Ellery Queen Award–winning author William Link.After years of get-rich-quick schemes, Troy Pellingham's bank account is empty and his options are down to one: take a job in his uncle's rare book shop, and spend his days working for an unpleasant man whose only redeeming quality is a mammoth bank account. Though well into his eighties, Uncle Rodney is the...

In The Last Fire-Eater, renowned historian of the American South William A. Link examines the life of Roger A. Pryor, a Virginia secessionist, Confederate general, and earnest proponent of postwar sectional reconciliation whose life involved a series of remarkable transformations. Pryor’s journey, Link reveals, mirrored that of the South. At times, both proved puzzling and contradictory.Pryor recast himself during a crucial period in southern history between the 1850s and ...

"A sweeping yet rigorous analysis of Dixon and his work. The collection approaches the southern intellectual through multiple methodologies -- from literary theory and film studies to social history and religious studies. We get an exhaustive yet diverse perspective on Dixon's influence and legacy." -- Journal of American HistoryThomas Dixon Jr. (1864--1946), best remembered today as the author of the racist novels that served as the basis for D. W. Griffith's controversial 1915 cla...

A must-listen collection of thirteen bibliomysteries by bestselling and award-winning authorsBibliomysteries Volume 1 includes:● "An Acceptable Sacrifice" by Jeffery Deaver● "The Final Testament" by Peter Blauner● "What's in a Name?" by Thomas H. Cook● "Book Club" by Loren D. Estleman● and many others

After the death of his father, a literature professor is drawn into the murder investigation of a bookstore proprietor.Though Don and his father both love books, their tastes couldn't be more different. Don is a scholar, and his father reads nothing but schlock. His house is full of dime paperbacks, battered thrillers, and case after case of western novels, none of which his son could ever bear to read.At his father's funeral, Don is approached by a strange...

In frigid Wyoming lies a mystery that stretches back to Nazi Germany.Lyle and Juan wait outside the lawyer's house in ski masks, pistols hidden behind their backs. Shortly after dawn, Paul Parker, an aged lawyer, and his old dog step into the cold. The thugs kill the dog, and take the lawyer hostage. Parker's day has started badly and is going to get much worse.Once a fine lawyer, Parker's enthusiasm has slipped with age, and criminals like Lyle are part of ...

The lie that bought Jacob Weisen a new life cannot help him escape the past.Birkenau could not kill Jacob Weisen. He survived the death camp and made his way to America, where he became famous telling the story of Isaac Becker, an author who was tortured to death when the guards caught him writing down his story. Becker's manuscript was lost, but by telling the tale, Weisen keeps his memory alive. No other witnesses survived—and W...

A librarian is tormented by a lethal volume of black magic.When A. Davenport Lomax's young daughter asks him whether spirits and faeries are real, the Edwardian librarian just pats the little darling on the head. But when a desperate man emerges from the winding passages of the library muttering about demonology, he gets Lomax's attention. Theodore Grange is a member of the Brotherhood of Solomon, a secret society dedicated to unraveling the mysteries of black magic...

When a bibliophile is murdered, it takes a bookseller to solve the crime.Good Advice, New Mexico, is a sunny town with a gloomy bookshop. The store's eerie corridors are the province of Avery Sharecross, an ex-cop who has made the transition from chasing killers to tracking rare books. One afternoon, the local sheriff interrupts his book club meeting, and Sharecross's old career collides with his new one.The area's premier book collector has been found bludg...

Marie Adelaide Elizabeth Rayner Lowndes was born in George Street, Marylebone, London on the 5th August 1868 the only daughter of Anglo-French parents.She spent much of her early life in La Celle-Saint-Cloud, France.In 1896 she married the journalist Frederick Sawrey A Lowndes and went on to have a son and two daughters.From shortly after this time until her death she wrote a novel, play, short story collection or non-fiction work every year. Some of her works were ...

In frigid Wyoming lies a mystery that stretches back to Nazi Germany.Lyle and Juan wait outside the lawyer's house in ski masks, pistols hidden behind their backs. Shortly after dawn, Paul Parker, an aged lawyer, and his old dog step into the cold. The thugs kill the dog, and take the lawyer hostage. Parker's day has started badly and is going to get much worse.Once a fine lawyer, Parker's enthusiasm has slipped with age, and criminals like Lyle are part of ...

An ancient scroll draws a bookseller into a chilling mystery in this short story from the New York Times– bestselling author of The Cater Street Hangman.Monty Danforth finds the tin buried beneath a shipment of leather-bound classics. Inside is a millennia-old vellum manuscript written in an unfamiliar but unmistakably ancient language. Danforth tries to photocopy and photograph it, but he ends ...