A brand-new collection of Sherlock Holmes stories from a variety of exciting voices in modern horror and steampunk, including James Lovegrove, Justin Richards, Paul Magrs, Guy Adams and Mark Hodder. Edited by respected anthologist George Mann, and including a story by Mann himself.Introduction by George Mann The Loss of Chapter Twenty-One by Mark HodderHolmes and the Indelicate Widow by Mags L HallidayThe Demon Slasher of Seven Sisters by Cavan ScottThe Post-Modern Prometheus by Nick KymeMrs Hudson at the Christmas Hotel by Paul MagrsThe Case of the Night Crawler by George MannThe Adventure of the Locked Carriage by Stuart DouglasThe Tragic Affair of the Martian Ambassador by Eric BrownThe Adventure of the Swaddled Railwayman by Richard Dinnick The Pennyroyal Society by Kelly HaleThe Persian Slipper by Steve LockleyThe Property of a Thief by Mark WrightWoman’s Work by David BarnettThe Fallen Financier by James LovegroveAbout the AuthorGeorge Mann is the author of the Newbury & Hobbes and The Ghost series of novels, as well as numerous short stories, novellas and audiobooks. He has written fiction and audio scripts for the BBC's Doctor Who and Sherlock Holmes. He is also a respected anthologist and has edited The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction and The Solaris Book of New Fantasy. Views: 17
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A tight, fast, and funny crime novel set amid the Newark riots of 1967. When a load of high octane heroin goes missing in the melee, criminals, cops, do-gooders, and lowlifes scramble to possess it. But the heroin has ideas of its own, leading its pursuers on a very un-merry, increasingly deadly chase.Angelo DiNoto, a ruthless New Jersey crime boss, supplements his ill-gotten gains by importing blindingly pure artisinal smack produced by an old Turkish farmer. A five million dollar shipment disappears, and DiNoto can think of nothing better to do than go on a murderous rampage.Richard Mundi, in whose lap the drugs have landed, is a burned out Manhattan real estate developer who plans to use the unexpected windfall as capital to revive his crumbling business empire. His gorgeous daughter Gloria, in bed - literally - with a band of wannabe revolutionaries, sees the heroin as a way to escape her father's looming presence and impress the woman she truly loves. "The Mailman" is a longtime postal clerk who has survived the worst that life has to offer --until throat cancer robs him of his voice and the will to live. To him, the drugs are a ticket to a better place. Topping off the cast is Walkaway Kelly, a private eye and Hell's Kitchen barfly who teeters continually on the brink of redemption.Stir in Kelly's lovelorn sidekick, a pair of closeted gay hoodlums who work as DiNoto's enforcers, Mundi's conflicted protégé ( a slab of muscle with a moral conscience, who also serves as Gloria's nanny), and you have an Elmore Leonard-esque cast of characters running rampant in a convincingly wrought historical setting. Gregory Gibson weaves a thrilling, twisty plot in which disparate threads converge in an unforgettable showdown over the Old Turk's Load.Review"Nostalgia, noir and narcotics are blended together in a runaway train journey that careens down the track at breakneck speed . . . Breaking new ground in crime fiction with his unusual protagonist, Gibson gets a gold star for deftness, great writing, lethal encounters, mayhem, murder, and bleak black humor." -- Seamus Scanlon, *Library Journal (starred review)" 'The Mailman didn't even stop to pee.' If you can resist a sentence and sensibility like that, you're taking yourself too seriously. Gregory Gibson's The Old Turk's Load is a hoot, a neo-noir that just zips along.'" -- Stewart O'Nan, author of *The Speed Queen*"...character descriptions that shine like pistols in sentences that burst like bullets. . . .With its sparse dialogue and nonchalant treatment of sex and violence, The Old Turk's Load is probably the fastest neo-noir read on crime novel shelves. Exquisitely hard boiled, this crime novel is the perfect beach read for those nurtured on Tatantino and Spillane." -- Dominic Viti , The New York Journal of Books (starred review)"Gibson's elliptical, ever-evolving plot seems a marriage of Raymond Chandler complexity and Donald E. Westlake comic haplessness, but he imbues his characters with a kind of desperate humanity that is brilliantly played out . . . The sense of time and place is wonderfully evocative, and The Old Turk's Load will be a signal pleasure for crime-fiction aficionados." -- Thomas Gaughan, Booklist (starred review)"The Old Turk's Load is a marvel of Chandleresque plotting, with a deeply felt and utterly real '60s setting and a heart as big as all outdoors." -- Luc Sante, author of Low Life and *Kill All Your Darlings*“This well-handled caper novel recalls the late great Donald Westlake.”-- Publishers WeeklyFrom the Inside Flap"Acclaimed writer Gregory Gibson offers a tight, fast, and funny debut crime novel set amid the Newark riots of 1967. When a load of High-octane heroin goes missing in the melee, criminal, cops, do-gooders, and lowlifes scramble to possess it. But the heroin has ideas of its own, leading its frantic pursuers on an increasingly deadly chase." Views: 17
When a soul goes missing, an occult detective ventures into Hell to retrieve itWhen the fourteen-year-old daughter of Singapore Three's most prominent industrialist dies of anorexia, her parents assume that Pearl's suffering has come to an end. But somewhere along the way to the Celestial Shores, Pearl's soul is waylaid, lured by an unknown force to the gates of Hell. To save their daughter from eternal banishment, they come to Detective Inspector Wei Chen, whose jurisdiction lies between this world and the next.A round-faced cop who is as serious as his beat is strange, Chen has a demon for a wife and a comfort with the supernatural that most mortals cannot match. But finding Pearl Tang will take him further into the abyss than ever before—to a mystifying place where he will have to cooperate with a demonic detective if he wants to survive. It's easy, Chen will find, to get into Hell. The hard part is getting out.Snake Agent is the first of the five Detective... Views: 17
Nine years ago, the Desolation decimated Earth’s human population. Now the survivors struggle on, living in small pockets of civilization scattered across the globe. In one small northern Minnesota community, the winters are harsh and wild predators lurk among the shadows. Life isn’t easy, but the people eke out a peaceful existence as hunters and farmers. That all changes when John Osborne — survivalist and sharpshooter who answers to no one — comes to town. His arrival ignites a chain of events that will change the North forever, as various factions vying for control of the still rebuilding society hope to swing Osborne’s allegiance to their side. Where do Osborne’s true loyalties lie? And what’s his dark secret? The answers begin here, in this first episode of The Northland Chronicles. Views: 17
Senior snoop, Agnes Barton, has taken up residence in a Winnebago at a campground in East Tawas, Michigan. It’s not the ideal place for a woman of 72 to live, but she’s making do. She had planned to start a detective agency with partner in crime, Eleanor Mason, but a snag with the license has them free wheeling it, not that it matters because they are the ones folks call when dead bodies turn up. A frantic phone call has Agnes and Eleanor racing to the scene of yet another crime scene. Herman Butler has fallen to his death from a third-story window, and the widow, Betty Lou, is beside herself with either grief or competing for the Oscars, and it’s up to Agnes and Eleanor to unravel the mystery, which gets more interesting when a ghost is listed as a possible suspect.This time around, Agnes and Sheriff Peterson can agree, the widow is nuts, but wait, a few days later the ghost ship, Erie Board of Trades, was spotted off the shores of Lake Huron. Ghost hunters, G.A.S.P., hightail it into town, and East Tawas is overrun with ghost sightings. Agnes and Eleanor must sort fact from fantasy before another body is found or a curse is realized. Views: 17
An edge-of-the-seat adventure! - Publisher's Weekly (starred review)
Seventeen-year-old Arden Munro has been raised by her older brother, Scott, ever since the death of their parents 10 years earlier. He has been her only family. But now Scott too is dead--or so believe the local police and everyone in Arden's community. Arden, however, is convinced that Scott has staged his snowmobile accident and purposely disappeared. She will search until she finds him. As Arden obsessively continues her detective hunt, she is forced to examine her feelings of loss and isolation, and to finally realize that these feelings existed long before Scott's accident. Whether or not her brother reappears, where should Arden turn for the support that usually comes from family? The page-turning mystery leads to a heart-tugging conclusion that is at once hopeful and sad, piercing and satisfying. Views: 17
Aradia, immortal priestess and daughter of the Goddess of the Moon, has just been asked to take up the raiment of a human body to teach women on earth herbs, spells and magic. With a heavy heart Aradia leaves all that she loves behind only to find herself enmeshed in a brutal web of patriarchal dominance, where men rape, pillage and burn the Temples of the Goddess, and women cry out to be heard against the din of war, poverty and ignorance. Myth of the Moon Goddess is an epic trilogy, three consecutive lives of the Goddess Aradia, which open’s the karmic portal between life, death and rebirth. Follow Aradia’s progress through the Seven Sacred Rays, an age old system of spiritual growth, and along with her... delve into the mysteries of the soul. ~ In this fantasy epic, Aradia is sworn to help the plight of women on earth; unfortunately she converges on a world prepared to do anything to stop her lofty mission. Aradia’s first life on earth is blessed by a loving family and a feisty grandmother who teaches her witchcraft. As a young girl encountering great loss and brutality, she is challenged to find passion and a desire to live. Aradia is spirited and hard headed; when she initiates a curse in anger... dire consequences follow! Aradia’s second life as Eurynome, child of the forest, begins just where she left off ... angry with men. Yet, her soul recognizes her lover from their previous life together and he teaches her the skills of a warrior. On a pilgrimage to the Temple to become a priestess, her skills of battle are put to the test, but will her warrior’s heart learn to trust? Views: 17
