We have two great novels this issue: William Le Queux’s The Rat Trap and Achmed Abdullah’s The Man on Horseback. Le Queux—often called the “Master of Mystery”—excels in this 1928 thriller. The story follows Frank Aylmer as he is drawn into a high-stakes web of international swindlers and murder—classic vintage espionage and suspense. And I cannot say enough great things about Achmed Abdullah, who is one of my favorite pul...

Dan Selby und seine Frau Rachel müssen hilflos mitansehen wie sich ihre finanzielle Situation weiter zuspitzt. Sie haben ihre gutbezahlten Jobs aufgeben und ihre gesamten Ersparnisse in ein kleines vielversprechendes Software-Start-up investiert, das Dan mit seinem Freund Warren Costas gegründet hatte. Doch Costas ist nach Meinungsverschiedenheiten inzwischen auf einem anderen Trip und will die gemeinsame Firma zerstören. Als einer von Dans Freunden betrunken einen Russen erwähnt, der weiß...

Our new issue features a pair of returning favorite characters (at least, they’re among my favorites!)—Ron Miller’s P.I., Velda Bellinghausen, and Christopher B. Booth’s slick Depression-era conman, Amos Clackworthy. As if that’s not enough, we also have original stories from Dave Zeltserman (thanks to Acquiring Editor Michael Bracken) and Laurence Raphael Brothers, plus a new Solve-It-Yourself puzzler from Hal Charles. And there are recent and classic tales from Adrian Cole, Raymond F. Jo...

Chosen by NPR and the Washington Post as one of the best crime & mystery novels of 2008, Small Crimes is now a major film starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Game of Thrones' Jaime Lannister)Bent copper Joe Denton gets out of prison suspiciously early after disfiguring the district attorney. Nobody wants Joe to hang around, not his ex-wife, his parents or his former colleagues - if he had any decency he'd get out of town and start over. Unfor...

Stories that pay tribute to Rex Stout's legendary private detective by Lawrence Block, Loren D. Estleman, John Lescroart, Robert Goldsborough, and more.If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin have been widely flattered almost from the moment Rex Stout first wrote about them in 1934. The Misadventures of Nero Wolfe collects two dozen literary tributes to one of crime fiction's best-loved private detectives and his ...

"A doozy of a doom-laden crime story" from the author of Small Crimes—now a major film—and The Caretaker of Lorne Field ( The Washington Post).Stan Green is a jaded New York City cop assigned to the most shocking homicide of his career—and he finds only one witness, a neurologically damaged recluse subject to demonic hallucinations. Then the murderer strikes again. Stan's best hope is a man who claims to be surrounded by ghoulish appariti...

Leonard March walks free from jail after fourteen years' hard time, served after turning state's witness against his Mafia boss Salvatore Lombard. It's only after Leonard is sentenced that the public learned that he was a Mob hitman with eighteen deaths to answer for.Leonard is released to public outrage and media furore. He spends his time working as a janitor while looking over his shoulder, fearful of a vigilante attack or a revenge hit from his former colleagues. At 62 and with...

In this "ingenious interpretation of Shelley's tale," Dr. Frankenstein's monster contends with vampyres, a Satanic cult, and the Marquis de Sade (Historical Novel Society).Framed for the murder of his fiancée, Friedrich Hoffmann is sentenced to death. Broken on the wheel in front of a jeering crowd, he awakens on a lab table, transformed into an abomination. Disoriented, he begins to piece together where he is, what's become of him, and the identity of the unholy m...

Cop Joe Denton wird auf Bewährung entlassen. Sieben Jahre zuvor verletzte er den Bezirksstaatsanwalt der Kleinstadt Bradley schwer und verübte einen Brandanschlag auf dessen Büro. Damals nahm Joe alle Schuld auf sich und deckte den korrupten Polizeiapparat. Inzwischen jedoch liegt der örtliche Mafiaboss Manny Vassey mit Krebs im Endstadium auf Intensiv und der einst attackierte Staatsanwalt versucht seit Wochen, Vassey ins Gewissen zu reden und ihn zu einem umfassenden Geständnis zu bewege...

A barbarian-turned-Roman-warrior leads an army against Persian invaders in this bestselling, epic historical adventure series opener.A.D. 255: The Roman Imperium is stretched to the breaking point, its authority and might challenged throughout the territories and along every border. One man is sent to marshal the defenses of a lonely city and to shore up the crumbling walls of a once indomitable symbol of Roman power, a man whose very name means war, a man called Ba...

Our 72nd issue is going to please a lot of our mystery readers. Not only do we have an original tale from the greatr Dave Zeltserman, courtesty of Acquiring Editor Michael Bracken, but we havca a terrific tale by Vicki Weisfelt, courtsey of Acquiring Editor Barb Goffman…plus a classic Sexton Blake mystery and the second Charlie Chan novel! (And, of course, a solve-it-yourself mystery from Hal Charles. Science fiction & fantasy fans won’t be disappointed, either. We have a new Count Czarny ...

This issue, we have 17 short stories and 2 novel serials for you—one of our largest lineups ever! (Of course, quite a few of the stories are short, and hopefully you like awful-pun stories…)On the mystery front, we have original tales from Dave Zeltserman (thanks to Acquiring Editor Michael Bracken) and Justin M. Kiska (a Christmas fantasy-mystery), plus another fantasy-mystery from C. C. Guthrie (thanks to Acquiring Editor Barb Goffman). Our serial of Jack Guthrie’s Tiger Isla...