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eBook Category: Mystery/Crime
eBook Description: As the year starts to wind down, EQMM is winding up the thrills and suspense. In our final original Edward D. Hoch story, "The Alexandrian Solution," series sleuth Jeffrey Rand decodes a cipher while vacationing in Egypt and gets caught up in a dangerous arms-trading deal. In Clark Howard's "Manila Burning," an American, freshly released from a Philippine prison, gambles his freedom on a job stealing drugs for a cash-strapped orphanage.

For malice of a more domestic sort, there's Melodie Johnson Howe's Diana Poole series, in which, this time out, the amateur detective/professional actress is given the opportunity to take over a movie role that opens unexpectedly, but starts to wonder, "What's It Worth?" when murder is thrown into the mix. Another traditional series, the Hennessey and Yellich procedurals of Peter Turnbull, continues in "Take Death Easy," wherein a treasure-hunter's discovery of a long-dead backpacker reopens a 25-year-old case. Also from across the pond, Amy Myers departs from her specialty, historical fiction, in "Counting Chickens," a contemporary fable illustrating why you shouldn't covet your neighbor's wife; while Edgar-nominated novelist Kevin Wignall offers a tense story about action versus inaction in the face of "A Death." This month's Passport to Crime story, from Norwegian author Richard Macker, concerns a murdered filmmaker who uses "Direction from the Grave" to ferret out the killer in his own clan.

Rounding out the issue with some doses of psychological suspense are "The Dam" by Scott Loring Sanders, an atmospheric story about a fishing guide whose customers unknowingly persuade him to return to the scene of a crime; Tom Tolnay's short portrait of an inadvertent murderer who has trouble "Getting Rid of the Body;" "A Thin Bright Line," a nail-biting car-chase through the desert from debut author Dixon Hill, in the Department of First Stories; and a step back in time in Janice Law's "The Jailer," a tale of greed, obsession, and murder set at Connecticut's Old Newgate Prison.

Contents
Novelette: WHAT'S IT WORTH? by Melodie Johnson Howe
Novelette: MANILA BURNING by Clark Howard
Department of First Stories: A THIN BRIGHT LINE by Dixon Hill
Passport to Crime: DIRECTION FROM THE GRAVE by Richard Macker
Novelette: TAKE DEATH EASY by Peter Turnbull
Novelette: GETTING RID OF THE BODY by Tom Tolnay
Reviews: BLOG BYTES by Bill Crider
Novelette: A DEATH by Kevin Wignall
Reviews: THE JURY BOX by Jon L. Breen
Novelette: COUNTING CHICKENS by Amy Myers
Novelette: THE DAM by Scott Loring Sanders
Novelette: THE ALEXANDRIAN SOLUTION by Edward D. Hoch
Novelette: THE JAILER by Janice Law
2008 EQMM READERS AWARD BALLOT

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

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Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [1.4 MB], Adobe Acrobat - Large Print (PDF) [1.5 MB], eReader (PDB) [286 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [206 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [224 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [749 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [242 KB], hiebook (KML) [1.1 MB], Sony Reader (LRF) [917 KB], iSilo (PDB) [185 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [525 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [551 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [341 KB]
Words: 62396
Reading time: 178-249 min.
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