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A journalist gets a lead on the O.J. murder weapon.
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.
- Length: 4 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Crime
Miriam Bailey remembered how the sound of the car crash became incorporated into the dream she was having that morning.
- Length: 7 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
He looked into her eyes. “Somehow, I feel as if this concert was more important than any of my other performances.”
A game of Scrabble has serious consequences.
A professor at a top university seeks Holmes'
help with a possible case of cheating in a valuable scholarship exam.
Holed up in an isolated mountain shanty, the emaciated Mr. Hiram Beeson receives a visit from a dark stranger.
Holmes investigates the case of a fiancee who disappeared on the day of the wedding.
Mystery in which a pawnbroker is offered an apparently unmissable job opportunity - only red-heads need apply.
A journalist tracks down the man who escaped being the twelfth victim of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. Contains adult material.
After his life-long friend goes missing near the legendary river Strid, Weigall sets out to look for him.
A writer becomes obsessed with a portrait of a young girl.
A woman's appetite for life has disappeared since leaving New York.
A sort of 19th century American Psycho. More obviously humorous and satirical - but equally grim.
Dessie O'Connell was 6 feet 3, thick of bone, and naturally muscular. Unlike almost all of the actors with whom he'd first competed for parts, he hardly needed to work out in order to resemble a Hellenic god.
A game of Scrabble has serious consequences.
“Go to Goldman’s Greenhouses. Joseph … will start you … at a buck sixty an hour.” His lungs empty of smoke, “Go talk to him. He’s your uncle. He’ll hire you.
A semi-barbaric king devises a semi-barabaric (but entirely fair) method of criminal trial involving two doors, a beautiful lady and a very hungry tiger.
My mum is the undisputed tea-drinking heavyweight champion of the world… or at least the whole of South Lexington Avenue.
Shepherd's family made money by being outlaws. Well, outlaws in the governments' eyes.
"Damn thing," old Ernie muttered, glancing up from his laptop. He reached out to shut off the annoying noise but noticed the call was from his area. This was unusual.
The cozy brick bungalow stood on a short lane of similarly modest houses with a small, mostly overgrown park at the far end and an intersection leading to Darlington High Street.
The spark of his life was fading, but his mind was still sharp, and his memories cocooned him.
Olly Rice had given his life to literature, but what had literature given him? A wound in the head that oozed something worse than blood or brain matter.
Dessie O'Connell was 6 feet 3, thick of bone, and naturally muscular. Unlike almost all of the actors with whom he'd first competed for parts, he hardly needed to work out in order to resemble a Hellenic god.
