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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Whodunit Collection: British Murder Mysteries masterfully curates an intriguing ensemble of 15 novels that delve into the enigmatic and enthralling world of crime and detection. Across these texts, readers are treated to a rich tapestry of narrative styles, from the tightly-knit, procedural approach to the more psychological and character-driven. This anthology not only showcases the variety inherent in early 20th-century British crime fiction but also highlights its evolution and endu...

This comprehensive eBook presents significant works of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook - easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • Daddy-Long-Legs • Daddy Long-Legs: A Comedy in Four Acts • Dear Enemy • When Patty Went to College • The Four-Pools Mystery • Just Patty • The Wheat Princess • Jerry Junior • Much Ado About Peter • Jerry

The year is 1920. Clara Batchelor, the heroine of The Lost Traveller, is now an actress with a touring repertory company and is passionately in love with the wholly unsuitable Stephen Tye. When Stephen betrays her, Clara betrays herself by agreeing to marry Archie, the fiance‚ she discarded four years before. A friendship but not a love match, the marriage is a desperate attempt by Clara to rekindle the safety of childhood. But neither of them are children any more and their dream sugar ho...

A tragic discovery was made at Bishop’s Hotel last evening when a maid, on entering the suite of Signora da Costa, a rich Argentine guest at the hotel, found her dead body on the bed wrapped in an eiderdown.Paul Ashby is excited to be heading off on holiday to the South of France. But on the day before departure he is entrusted with a strange mission – to find a missing young man. When he arrives in St. Antoine, he falls quickly in with the local artistic set, including al...