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eBook Category: Mystery/Crime
eBook Description: Whether they be world-weary cops who have seen every horror imaginable or brilliant but misanthropic ratiocinative detectives, characters in crime stories are often somewhat set apart from their neighbors. Several of this month's stories feature characters blessed and burdened with a degree of isolation. Shunned by the New York auction houses after she helped put a shady dealer in jail, antiques appraiser Josie Prescott has relocated to the seacoast of New Hampshire. In Jane K. Cleland's "Killing Time," Josie finds once again that her knowledge of the decorative arts, knack for research, and dogged integrity are qualities that make her a good amateur sleuth--even while they doom her to some uncomfortable situations. As cops deemed too essential to be spared for military service, the "four horsemen" of the Racket Squad also find themselves slightly out of step with the wartime culture of World War II Detroit; in Loren D. Estleman's "Sob Sister," the horsemen must deal with an ambitious reporter who gets wind of their plans to pursue a bootlegging operation. In "Blind Side," Peter Sellers poignantly captures the mindset, motives, and lonely courage of a bullied young man who is staring down his demons. And a young detective encounters the hollowness of a vibrant but decaying New Orleans as he investigates the death of a prominent prostitute in O'Neil De Noux's "No. 40 Basin Street."

This month's issue also features a trio of tales featuring lawyers, some noble, others not. Kristine Kathryn Rusch's "Discovery" pits a small-town attorney against the big guns of the railroads. Brian Thornton's "Suicide Blonde" concerns a lawyer and fixer for a Las Vegas operator in the early sixties. And James Lincoln Warren's "The Warcoombe Witch" is a tale told by a lawyer about the defense of a "witch" in the eighteenth century.

Our mystery classic this month, "A Perverted Genius" by Silas K. Hocking, features a village curate who is perplexed by a spate of robberies. Robert C. Hahn looks at mysteries that take place in and around the Baltimore and Washington, D.C. area. In addition, we have a challenging logic puzzle by Robert Kesling and a look at the fall lineup of crime television shows in J. Rentilly's Reel Crime column.

Department: EDITOR'S NOTES: CHARACTERS APART by Linda Landrigan
Fiction: KILLING TIME by Jane K. Cleland
Fiction: BLIND SIDE by Peter Sellers
Department: THE MYSTERIOUS CIPHER by by Willie Rose
Department: UNSOLVED: LOGIC PUZZLE by Robert Kesling
Fiction: DISCOVERY by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Fiction: SOB SISTER: A FOUR HORSEMEN STORY by Loren D. Estleman
Department: BOOKED AND PRINTED by Robert C. Hahn
Fiction: THE WARCOOMBE WITCH by James Lincoln Warren
Fiction: NO. 40 BASIN STREET by O'Neil De Noux
Fiction: SUICIDE BLONDE by Brian Thornton
Department: SOLUTION TO THE MYSTERIOUS CIPHER
Department: REEL CRIME by J. Rentilly
Mystery Classic: A PERVERTED GENIUS by Silas K. Hocking
Department: THE LINEUP
COMING IN DECEMBER 2008

eBook Publisher: Dell Magazines, Published: 2008
Fictionwise Release Date: September 2008

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Words: 55405
Reading time: 158-221 min.
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