Detective Mysteries Short Stories

by Rosemary Herbert (Foreword by), Daniel Brock (Contribution by), Elliott Capon (Contribution by), Philip Brian Hall (Contribution by), Tina L. Jens (Contribution by)

Overview

Private Eyes with eagle eyes and rare skills, PI's and gumshoes, bloodhounds and sleuths, the shadowy arts of the detective have intrigued us since tales of the Pinkerton Detective Agency and Sherlock Holmes. Add some treachery, intimacy, and a little murder to the mix and you'll find a powerful series of dark stories from classic and contemporary writers.

This new title in our successful Gothic Fantasy Short Stories collection contains a fabulous mix of classic and brand new writing, with contemporary authors from the US, Canada, and the UK.

New, contemporary and notable writers featured are: Daniel Brock, Elliott Capon, Philip Brian Hall, Tina L. Jens, Tom Mead, Marshall J. Moore, Pat Morris, Amelia Dee Mueller, Trixie Nisbet, Patsy Pratt-Herzog, Michele Bazan Reed, Lesley L. Smith and Cameron Trost. Alongside classic stories by authors such as Margery Allingham, G.K. Chesterton, Arthur Conan Doyle, Baroness Orczy and Catherine Louisa Pirkis.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781787556942
Publisher:	Flame Tree Publishing
Publication date:	02/29/2020
Series:	Gothic Fantasy
Pages:	480
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.80(d)

About the Author

Rosemary Herbert is editor in chief of The Oxford Companion to Crime & Mystery Writing and author of Front Page Teaser: A Liz Higgins Mystery. A former Harvard University reference librarian, and a longtime journalist and literary critic, her books also include Whodunnit? A Who’s Who in Crime & Mystery Writing, Murder on Deck! Shipboard & Shoreline Mystery Stories, and Twelve American Crime Stories.

Tom Mead is a Derbyshire mystery writer. His debut novel Death and the Conjuror was an international bestseller and its sequel, The Murder Wheel, was described as ‘brilliant’ in a Publishers Weekly starred review and ‘a delight’ by the Daily Mail. His third novel is Cabaret Macabre.