Mystery

Detectives come in all shapes and sizes—and in Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s five-story collection—they work the mean streets everywhere from a science...

California, a land of mystery, a land of magic. Assassins walk the streets alongside angels. Romance blossoms in the City by the Bay, while death s...

Mark Estes flaunted his money, abused his power, cheated on his wife, and most of all loved to eat.Warned that a dozen sugar cookies would kill him...

Carla uses her thieving past for good. Hired by retailers to test the effectiveness of their security systems, she makes a good living, despite her...

Beautiful longhaired tom Wall T runs a tight household. But when the other cats in his pride begin reporting a mouse incursion, he launches an inve...

Great moments exist for all of us at different times in our lives. From a simple taste of a cookie to meeting the love of our life. Bill Wallace l...

Berkeley, May, 1969—When former Army nurse Captain June “Eagle” Eagleton returned from Vietnam, she thought she left the war zone behind. But when...

UC Berkeley, January, 1969—In the midst of turbulent student protests on campus, a cherished building suddenly bursts into flames. Pammy Griffin, ...

A grandson goes missing in an old house. But he never left.Impossible. But it happened.The perfect kind of crazy case for private detective Pilgrim...

Hired by heirs to find two million in treasure hidden in a completely empty house, Pilgrim Hugh finds himself stuck.The house sparkles and no stick...

Private Detective Pilgrim Hugh loves solving strange cases. Very little stumps him for very long.But a woman by the name of Deep Blue, dead in her ...

Pilgrim Hugh solved some odd cases before, but an old, smelly couch sitting in the middle of a beautiful lawn seems to have full-blown strange wri...

Dean Wesley Smith, famous for being one of the most prolific and wide-ranging authors working today, draws on his library of strange detective stor...

Sent to investigate the sudden appearance of the statue of a naked woman in a park, Pilgrim Hugh must first decide if placing a statue without per...

A woman’s hand, perfectly encased in a box of glass. Found by kids in a field ten years before.Retired Detectives on the Cold Poker Gang Task Force...

Damon Felt, a walking, talking cliché of a meek human, lived on Bryant Street. Pathetically normal to fifty levels, Damon Felt did not belong on Br...

A woman decides to throw a surprise birthday party for her husband. She decorates, gets out the snacks and beer, and is ready for the party.Only th...

Bryant Street needed a neighborhood watch. But none existed.So Rudy took it on himself to be that watch program, only like anything on Bryant Stree...

Bryant Street seems to host a ton of different and odd things happening. Dean Wesley Smith tends to describe Bryant Street as where Twilight Zone l...

Gerald Earnst loves old books. He loves the smell of them, the feel of the leather, the smoothness of the dust jackets.He and his wife Bettie met i...

Murder, mayhem, and all manner of crimes set during the holiday season give this anthology a bite that serves as a delightful change from the swee...

When Paladin calls Secret Master of Fandom and private detective Spade and asks him to come to a new con he swore he’d never attend, he agrees. Be...

Secret Master of Fandom and private detective Spade thought he would find himself alone on Christmas Eve—until a strange call from Paladin changes...

Secret Master of Fandom and Private Detective Spade gets a strange request: A tiny woman with pointed ears asks him to help her with a case at Fle...