We have another great issue this week, with original mysteries from N.M. Cedeño (courtesy of Acquiring Editor Michael Bracken) and Brian Rieselman, plus a terrific tale by David Dean (courtesy of Acquiring Editor Barb Goffman). Our classic mystery novel is The Winning Clue, by James Hay, Jr. (A note to the sensitive: it has some dialog in racial dialect, which was common in novels of the era.) And, of course, we have a solve-it-yourself puzzler from Hal Charles.On the science ficti...

Homicide Detective Olivia Addington has investigated some tough cases in her time. Now the death of a scam artist in the home of a frail, retired professor of Latin hinges on a chilling clue Addington and her officer-in-training, Sanford, almost missed: a jagged piece of broken crystal.

Winner of the National Book AwardThe publication of this extraordinary volume firmly established Flannery O'Connor's monumental contribution to American fiction.There are thirty-one stories here in all, including twelve that do not appear in the only two story collections O'Connor put together in her short lifetime--Everything That Rises Must Converge and A Good Man Is Hard to Find.O'Connor published her first stor...

Kyungjin is her given name.According to Yeo Kyungjin... Even mentioning her name gives me the creeps.There is something unique about her that no one else possesses.This is every man's ultimate goal.to take his girlfriend on a trip across the worldI desired something similar, and it came true when we took a vacation.But destiny...Rather, let me start by explaining how w...

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is a 1921 short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, first published in Colliers Magazine, and subsequently anthologized in his book Tales of the Jazz Age (occasionally published as The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories). Developed for years by the late Hollywood mogul Ray Stark, the rights and story development were purchased from the Ray Stark Estate and adapted for a 2008 film of the same name directed by David Fincher. Excerpted fr...

Wildside Press continues its 4-novels-in-1 releases with The Classic Mystery Novel MEGAPACK®! Here are 4 great classic mysteries from the Golden Age of crime fiction!A fine Edwardian whodunit, with a touch of Oscar Wilde and a pinch of George Bernard Shaw. It builds from a slow start to a thrilling escape drama in the third act. Don't miss it!DEATH IN THE BACK SEAT, by Dorothy Cameron DisneyA young couple from New York finds murder when they try to relocate to Connect...

The ‘Creative Writing Tutor’ scheme provides a lively series of themed booklets that will stimulate your child’s imagination and inspire him or her to write in a more interesting way and to achieve better results. The booklets provide ‘a tutor’ for the child, fun features and stories to read, follow up activities to complete, harder vocabulary to prepare children for more advanced writing and many helpful tips and techniques to improve writing style.Written by an experienced teacher, they ...

The night the love of his life, Stacey, informed Hunt of her intentions to marry another man kicked off a horrific, mind-bending domino effect upon his life. Crushed by her rejection and brash spurning; Hunt soon finds himself in a self-inflicted entanglement of rage, delusion, lust and demolishing darkness. His reaction to her contempt soon brings him to a bloodcurdling incident and a mysterious twist of events. Accompany Hunt through his eerie retelling of the night that ushered in devas...

Margaret struggles toward adulthood in a world torn apart by the Second World War and complicated by her strong-willed mother, Sophia, and grandmother, Charlie Kate, in a story about three generations of passionate, willful Southern women

Chelsea Campbell is about to get the worst news of her life. It's how she handles it that makes all the difference. This is an adult contemporary short story of 3300 words/13 pages. It contains strong language Karly Kirkpatrick is a teacher by day and a writer by night. Her list of titles include her YA novels, Into the Shadows, Darkness Rising, After Dawn, The Green, and Bloody Little Secrets, and a selection of short stories, including this one. You can find out more abou...

Only Alexander knows why the barn is haunted—-and by whatWhen Alexander notices an eerie light coming out of the barn,. He thinks his friend Blossom Culp is trying to spook him. But strange things really are happening there. Slimy footprints appear out of nowhere, and whimpering sounds float down from the hayloft. And when he ventures into the barn in the dark of night, his breath catches in his throat. Suddenly Blossom's words come back to him: "You can make contact with the Unsee...

Secrets of the past lead to murder in the present in this Captain Heimrich whodunit from the authors of the "excellent" Mr. and Mrs. North mysteries ( The New Yorker).Capt. M. L. Heimrich of the New York State Police may not have the flash of hard-boiled city detectives, but there's no lead the intrepid investigator won't follow until his every hunch is satisfied . . .When secretary Enid Vance comes across the bodies of her employer, Homer Lenox, a...