The famous lexical semanticist Professor Edgar Nettleston had been found dead, a gunshot wound to the head.

A man is certain his friends are about to play a practical joke on him ...

Paulo’s muted tongue was as dry as the arctic air, and his heart just as cold. The blood from the knife dripped carelessly onto the pavement.

A game of Scrabble has serious consequences.

When Chuck Walaach enters the Elvis Look-Alike Competition, something has to give.

Deacon Park is where they bury the bodies. For a cold-blooded killer, a huge tract of wild land in the middle of the city can be an indispensable resource.

A magistrate is visited by a doctor who hides a dark secret behind his penetrating pale blue eyes.

Suzanne stays at the bedside of her dying sister, who she has lived with her whole life.

So you think he's mad? Nervous? True! - but you should see how wisely he carries out his plan.

“It’s all going to be just fine,” she said. “We’re going home soon, I promise.”

It was the early evening in the small farming community of Sunlight County when the stranger came knocking.

Outwardly Seth didn’t react as he watched Mrs. Hatfield misplay the four spade contract, but inwardly he groaned. True, she made it, but most of the other pairs would make it with an overtrick.

An investigator is put on the case when a mad philologist steals a new weapon.

A man takes his enemy to taste a rare wine - which he happens to keep at the far end of a vast, damp cellar.

He steals with swift, simple hands in the yellow Roman sun. The crowds are bulging, swollen, and he bobs amongst them as silent as a jellyfish.