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  Edgar Allan Poe's Detective Stories

  Edgar Allan Poe

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   We appreciate them only in their effects. We know of them, among other things, that they are always to their possessor, when inordinately possessed, a source of the liveliest enjoyment. As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action, so glories the analyst in that moral activity which disentangles. He derives pleasure from even the most trivial occupations bringing his talent into play. He is fond of enigmas, of conundrums, of hieroglyphics; exhibiting in his solutions of each a degree of acumen which appears to the ordinary apprehension preternatural. 
  The Murders in the Rue Morgue 
  The Mystery of Marie Roget 
  The Case of the Purloined Letter 
  The Gold Bug

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  ROOM OF DEATH - Here Today and...

  Sidney St. James

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  ROOM OF DEATH – Here Today and Gone Tomorrow 
  BOOK 1 of 3 in the DEMON GORGE TRILOGY 
  “Samuel Knight’s body was stolen from the house,” the policeman said in an awe-inspiring tone. 
  “Samuel Knight’s body was stolen! Impossible!” Jackson replied. 
  “Yes. You didn’t hear of it?” 
  “Hear of it?” Jackson echoed. “No! I haven’t heard of it whatsoever. I can’t believe it. God, Samuel’s body, was stolen. It sounds impossible to me. Do you have any clue who stole it?” 
  “We don’t know. It was lying in state in the living room at the home, awaiting the undertaker to pick it up.” 
  “Wasn’t the body watched?” 
  “No. Why should it be watched? Who would have supposed for one single minute someone would come and steal the body?” 
  “We don’t have any idea. Tim Collins, the undertaker, arrived this morning and found the body gone. One of the windows was open in the room, and Doctor Clair was the only one with a key.” 
  “Any theories on who might have done something like that?” 
  “The Chief thinks someone hid under the table with a big cloth hanging to the floor draped over it. So, someone hid under the cloth until all was quiet and the door locked and then came out, stole the body, and went out the window.” 
  “I’ve never heard of anything like this in all my life,” exclaimed Jackson.

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  The Shadow on the Blind - 19th...

  Louisa Baldwin

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  Louisa MacDonald was born in 1845, one of eleven children of part Scottish descent.  Together with three of her sisters they were known as the ‘MacDonald sisters’ primarily because of their marriages to well-known men.   
   
  In 1866 she married the wealthy industrialist Alfred Baldwin in a double wedding with her sister Anne.   
   
  After giving birth to Stanley on the 3rd August 1867, who would go on to become Prime Minister, she drifted into an unhappy life in her then residence in Worcestershire.  She had at least one miscarriage and days alone depressed and in darkness. 
   
  During the 1870’s the couple travelled to find a lasting cure and tried a variety of treatments which led to her recovery in 1883.  She now became a leading figure in her local village of Wilden, near Stourbridge. 
   
  Her writing career of novels, short stories and poetry is often overlooked, as was the case with so many women, yet her works reveal many talents and a gift for melding odd and weird circumstances into seemingly everyday life.   
   
  Louisa Baldwin died in 1925.

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  Dragon's Breath - A DCI Evan...

  Rhys Dylan

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  A man's death in the Black Mountains leads DCI Warlow into a tangled web of murder and a dangerous criminal network. As the body count rises, the team faces a ruthless killer driven by greed, where every step uncovers more danger. The dragon’s breath taints everything it touches. And no one is safe.

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  The Double Vice - The 1st Hidden...

  Chris Holcombe

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  DECADENT. DUPLICITOUS. DEADLY. 
  WELCOME TO THE QUEER WORLD OF THE ROARING 20s. 
  It wasn't how gay speakeasy owner Dash Parker's birthday was supposed to go. But this was New York City at the height of Prohibition, and everything—and everyone—can turn on a dime. 
  When one of Dash's club patrons is murdered, Dash and his friends must discover the killer while also outwitting a devious blackmailer. Together, they navigate the shadowy world of drag queens, cabaret performers, gangsters, mob molls, lesbian lawyers, and a mysterious but dangerous "Baroness of Business." Men and women who have everything to lose—and some of whom will do anything to keep their secrets hidden. 
  A trail of clues leads them from Greenwich Village to Harlem and back again. But time is running out, and a ruthless killer's next victim might very well be Dash himself… 
  The Double Vice is the first novel in the Hidden Gotham series. 
  "It's one of the best I've read all year! I can't recommend it highly enough." (Queer Writers of Crime)

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  Yeager's Mission

  Scott Bell

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  After a number of earthquakes hammer the Sierra Madre region of Mexico, Grupo Verdugo, a splinter group of cartel enforcers, takes control of the drug shipping routes through that territory. Caught in the middle, a small orphanage high in the mountains, desperate for supplies to care for the children and the battered earthquake victims, reaches out to Abel Yeager for help. 
  Yeager and his friend Victor agree to deliver the needed food and medicine. But Grupo Verdugo seems to have a special interest in starving out the clergy and forcing them to bend to their will. They send a man known as the Executioner to stop anyone daring to assist the people. 
  Yeager and Victor are in for the biggest fight of their lives as they are forced to move forty children, a dozen sick and injured patients, and one feisty doctor out of the mission and through mountains infested with vicious killers.

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