A Twist of a Knife: Mystery Stories from Pulphouse Fiction Magazine

Produktbeschreibung

A Twist of a Knife

Mystery Stories from the Pages of

PULPHOUSE FICTION MAGAZINE

Stories in Pulphouse Fiction Magazine cover all genres, from science fiction, fantasy, horror, mystery, romance, and literature. And just about everything in between all of those. Editor Dean Wesley Smith looks for great stories that don't fit, that just feel sort of different, but in a good way.

This volume contains ten great mysteries from all the mystery stories published in the first ten issues of Pulphouse. From old spies with attitude, to a heartbreaking tale of a grieving father, to an assortment of detectives including one hard-boiled with fancy sunglasses, one zombie, and a ghost, to a dramatic story behind a famous painting, these stories will entertain readers, make them laugh, and even touch their hearts.

Includes:

"The Geezer Squad" by Annie Reed

"Don't Make Me Take off My Sunglasses" by O'Neil De Noux

"Looking for the Bastard" by David H. Hendrickson

"Heartbreaker" by Kevin J. Anderson

"The Time Cop" by Patrick Alan Mammay

"Red Carnation" by Lee Allred

"Just Desserts" by R.W. Wallace

"Under the Blood-Red Maple" by Joslyn Chase

"The Distant Baying of Hounds" by J. Steven York

"The Case of the Vanishing Boy: A Spade/Paladin Conundrum" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch 

Autoreninfo

Considered one of the most prolific writers working in modern fiction, USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith published far more than a hundred novels in forty years, and hundreds of short stories across many genres. At the moment he produces novels in several major series, including the time travel Thunder Mountain novels set in the Old West, the galaxy-spanning Seeders Universe series, the urban fantasy Ghost of a Chance series, a superhero series starring Poker Boy, and a mystery series featuring the retired detectives of the Cold Poker Gang. His monthly magazine, Smith's Monthly, which consists of only his own fiction, premiered in October 2013 and offers readers more than 70,000 words per issue, including a new and original novel every month. During his career, Dean also wrote a couple dozen Star Trek novels, the only two original Men in Black novels, Spider-Man and X-Men novels, plus novels set in gaming and television worlds. Writing with his wife Kristine Kathryn Rusch under the name Kathryn Wesley, he wrote the novel for the NBC miniseries The Tenth Kingdom and other books for Hallmark Hall of Fame movies. He wrote novels under dozens of pen names in the worlds of comic books and movies, including novelizations of almost a dozen films, from The Final Fantasy to Steel to Rundown. Dean also worked as a fiction editor off and on, starting at Pulphouse Publishing, then at VB Tech Journal, then Pocket Books, and now at WMG Publishing, where he and Kristine Kathryn Rusch serve as series editors for the acclaimed Fiction River anthology series. For more information about Dean's books and ongoing projects, please visit his website at (...) and sign up for his newsletter.