This issue, we have 11 tales instead of our usual 10. Why? Because we felt like it! Or it’s a Mother’s Day special bonus. Whatever…just enjoy!This is another issue jam-packed with original stories. Tom Larsen and Anna Scotti (thanks to Acquiring Editors Michael Bracken and Barb Goffman), as well as Hal Charles and Robert Lopresti, lead off the pack with new mysteries. And Grigory Lukin, Eric Rutter, E.E. King, and Andrew Akers contribute new science fiction and fantasy. Classic rep...

On a snowy Winter's morning, Inspector Head arrives at Westingborough Grange to investigate the murder of Mr Edward Carpenter, who was shot after answering the door to a stranger in the early hours of the morning. Head imagines the trail of footprints leading from the door of the Grange into the surrounding countryside will make things easy. But when the prints stop, suddenly and mysteriously, at the base of an ash tree in a nearby field, it appears that things may not be as straightforwar...

Indiscretions of Archie - P. G. Wodehouse - Indiscretions of Archie is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on 14 February 1921 by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the United States on 15 July 1921 by George H. Doran, New York. The book was adapted from a series of short stories, originally serialised in the Strand in the United Kingdom between March 1920 and February 1921, and, all except one, in Cosmopolitan in the United States between May 1920 and February 1...

This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘The Blue Castle’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of L. M. Montgomery’.Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of Montgomery includes original annotations and illustrat...

Jean Webster (pseudonym for Alice Jane Chandler Webster) was an American writer and author of many books including Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy. Her best-known books feature lively and likeable young female protagonists who come of age intellectually, morally, and socially, but with enough humor, snappy dialogue, and gently biting social commentary to make her books palatable and enjoyable to contemporary readers.This book is contained 8 works of Jean Webster;When Patty W...

All the short stories of John Collier are now collected in two volumes, Fancies and Goodnights Vol 1 and Fancies and Goodnights Vol 2. Vol 1 won the International Fantasy Award in 1951 His fantastic ability to mix satire with though provoking 'what ifs' is clearly seen in this compilation of thirty-two short stories entitled, Fancies and Goodnights. He pulls the reader into a world of fantasy, make believe, and even 'Hell'. As the stories unfold, the surreal and bizarre become almost possi...

This capacious gathering of fifteen mystery novels surveys the many pleasures of the classic whodunit: concealed motives, misleading appearances, procedural inquiry, and the gradual restoration of intelligibility from crime. Moving between detective investigation, adventure-inflected suspense, domestic intrigue, and international melodrama, the volume demonstrates how broadly the mystery form could accommodate social observation and narrative experiment. Its locked secrets, imperilled trav...

BRITISH MURDER MYSTERIES – 10 Classics in One Volume gathers a richly varied sequence of early twentieth-century suspense narratives, blending sensation fiction, domestic intrigue, romance, travel adventure, and proto-detective plotting. Across such works as Girl Who Had Nothing, The House by the Lock, The Second Latchkey, Castle of Shadows, The Motor Maid, Guests of Hercules, and The Brightener, the volume reveals a literary world fascinated by secrets, inheritance, disguise, mobility, an...

This illustrated edition of The Complete Works of E. Phillips Oppenheim gathers an extraordinary body of popular fiction: 109 novels and more than 200 short stories spanning espionage, crime, romance, political intrigue, and high-society adventure. Oppenheim's prose is brisk, elegant, and expertly plotted, shaped by the conventions of late Victorian melodrama and Edwardian thriller writing while anticipating the modern spy novel. His fiction moves through embassies, clubs, casinos, country...

When Clara returns home from the convent of her childhood to begin life at a local girls' school, she is at a loss: although she has comparative freedom, she misses the discipline the nuns imposed and worries about keeping her faith in a secular world. Against the background of the First World War, Clara experiences the confusions of adolescence - its promise, its threat of change. She longs for love, yet fears it, and wonders what the future will hold. Then tragedy strikes and her childho...

E. Phillips Oppenheim's 'Crime & Mystery Collection: 110+ Thrillers & Detective Tales in One Volume (Illustrated Edition)' is a captivating anthology that delves into the intricate world of crime and mystery. With over a hundred thrilling tales packed into one volume, Oppenheim's work showcases his masterful storytelling skills and ability to keep readers on the edge of their seats. The collection features a wide range of narratives, from daring heists and cunning criminals to brilliant de...

Clara Batchelor is twenty-two. Her brief, doomed marriage to Archie over, she returns to live with her parents in the home of her childhood. She hopes for comfort but the devoutly Catholic household confines her and forms a dangerous glass wall of guilt and repression between Clara and the outside world. Clara both longs for and fears what lies beyond, and when she escapes into an exhilarating and passionate love affair her fragile identity cracks.Beyond the Glass completes the tri...