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eBook Category: Mystery/Crime
eBook Description: Our annual issue honoring Sherlock Holmes features two stories that may well be considered a valentine to the Great Detective. Holmes finds himself again coming to the aid of Irene Adler--and her university-age son--in a smart new pastiche from Edward D. Hoch. And Steve Hockensmith has a special treat for fans of Big Red and Old Red Amlingmeyer: a brand-new short story in which the cowboy detectives test their Holmes-style deducifyin’ skills in the meanest streets and roughest bars of 1890s San Francisco.

Other series characters return in this issue, too. Judith Cutler’s irrepressible English antiques dealers, Tripp & Townend, have a charming new customer who shows a suspiciously intense interest in nineteenth-century ceramics; and David A. Knadler’s Montana sheriff John Ennis investigates a spooky neighborhood legend that reopens a long-forgotten case.

Those readers who’ve been clamoring for more British mysteries get their wish with this issue. In addition to Judith Cutler’s amateur detective, Jeffry Scott gives us a cozy set in a once-idyllic countryside that’s slowly being turned over to developers; and Barbara Cleverly presents a very different type of story, inspired by a series of recent real-life murders of prostitutes in small towns near her. This month’s Departments feature two special gems. Bestselling pseudonymous Algerian author Yasmina Khadra pens a psychological thriller about an ex-army man whose mind has been hopelessly twisted by warfare, in the Passport to Crime. And the Department of First Stories introduces a P.I. in the vein of Marlowe from newcomer C. J. Harper, who was shortlisted for the 2007 Crime Writers’ Association Debut Dagger Award.

Finally, don’t miss the latest stories from award-winning authors Toni L. P. Kelner and Bill Pronzini. Kelner, who won the 2007 Anthony Award for Best Short Story, sets an unlikely combination of pirates and lawyers on the high seas of the Caribbean in a rollicking historical courtroom drama. Pronzini, who will receive the 2008 Grand Master award from the Mystery Writers of America, collaborates with Barry N. Malzberg on an epistolary mystery about love gone wrong. These 10 great stories, plus the monthly Jury Box--naturally, focusing on Holmesian releases this issue--and Blog Bytes columns make for another great issue jam-packed with suspense and thrills.

Contents:

Fiction
THE DEVIL'S ACRE by Steve Hockensmith
THE GRAY LADY by David A. Knadler
SKULL AND CROSS-EXAMINATIONS by Toni L. P. Kelner
THE CREAM TREATMENT by Jeffry Scott
FALSE COLOURS by Judith Cutler
A MATTER OF JUSTICE by Bill Pronzini and Barry N. Malzberg
KILLING BY THE CLOCK by Barbara Cleverly
A SCANDAL IN MONTREAL by Edward D. Hoch

Passport to Crime
THE LONG NIGHT OF A PENITENT by Yasmina Khadra

Department of First Stories
THE CORONATION COIN by C. J. Harper

Reviews
BLOG BYTES by Bill Crider
THE JURY BOX by Jon L. Breen

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eBook Publisher: Dell Magazines, Published: 2008
Fictionwise Release Date: December 2007

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