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What if history were given a twist or two, and great commanders on land and sea fought their greatest battles under different circumstances? Turtledove and his colleagues turn the past upside down and inside out, and the possibilities are endless He captured the bitter unfairness of the class system and the violence that erupted between rich and poor. Now, today's masters of mystery "decrease the surplus population" with these new stories inspired by Dickens and his immortal classics Here are twenty original stories of diabolical crimes and magical solutions featuring some of today's top science fiction, fantasy, and mystery writers.

From the Elizabethan era to the far-flung future, from the interstellar realm of the Eraasian Hegemony to the Las Vegas Strip, these ingenious whodunits or whatdunits are sure to baffle and delight every lover of mystery and the fantastic. These memorable stories by such top tale-weavers as Tanya Huff, P. Elrod, and Lois Tilton are sure to appeal to anyone who's ever been bitten by an interest in those mysterious, seductive, and deadly rulers of the night. Greenberg cast their net far and wide, across the seas, throughout the world to catch the best-the most suspenseful, most original, intriguing, confounding, downright entertaining stories of crime and mystery.

Edgar winners from the U. Wodehouse's Bertie and Jeeves.

Each story in this collection offers murderous intrigue worthy of the Bard himself, assuring us that Shakespeare lives on So when something goes awry in the White House, who better to solve it than these pet detectives? Perhaps that should not be surprising, for since the time of G.

Chesterton those who have explored stories with a religious belief or background have tended to place them in the Middle Ages. A frustrated writer runs away from her mundane life, only to find she's carried her inhibitions with her. Then, on the island of Skye, she meets a young musician Pick a famous historical figure and experience your own life as that person--or, for those who like to live dangerously, there are whispers of a black market--where no one is forbidden.

At least that's what everybody thought until Dolly's bloated body washed ashore on the same spot as the drunken Gattling brothers the day before. Takes place Maine. Coup de Grace : 10th in the Sarah Deane series. Academic backstabbing and murder at a bucolic New England girls' boarding school. Sarah is hired to teach English at Miss Merritt's, only to land in the epicenter of legendary French professor Grace Carpentier's reign of terror.

Her passion for excellence has inspired universal fear and loathing. A student discovers Carpentier's cloaked hanging effigy, then Sarah finds a bludgeoned body wearing Carpentier's trademark cape, but the victim is not Carpentier. Is it a case of mistaken identity? Murder in the Rough : Takes place in Maine, partly on a golf course. Intensive Scare Unit : 12th in the series. Sarah's year-old cantankerous aunt, Julia Clancy, proprietor of the High Hope horse farm, is in the hospital in Bowmouth, Maine, for open heart surgery. While she's recovering, she is the last person to see a patient alive before he's found strangled in the lavatory, and then a shadowy figure in hospital garb slips into her room and tries to strangle her.

Foiled Again : 13th in series.

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During rehearsals at Bowmouth College in Maine of the gender-bending Romiette and Julio, student actors engaging in horseplay leave Todd Mancuso, the brilliant actor playing Mercutio, wounded. When Sarah stumbles on a badly injured student hidden away in a stockroom on Halloween night, events take a turn for the worse. By the time the production is finally staged, a member of the faculty has been badly injured and a student has been killed.

When police don't seem to care, McMorrow investigates, only to learn his new home town is a haven for hidden alliances, secret pasts, and murderous intentions. Bloodline : 2nd Jack McMorrow mystery. While researching an article on unwed teenage mothers for an upscale New England magazine, McMorrow discovers what he believes to be a success story in a teenage mother named Missy Hewitt. But when Missy is murdered soon after talking with McMorrow, he begins to investigate and finds that the facts just don't add up.

Lifeline : McMorrow's girlfriend takes a job in Portland, Maine, leaving behind an ultimatum. McMorrow rises to the challenge, signing on as the court reporter for the Kennebec Observer. What he doesn't realize is that he is about to become a suspect when a young woman is murdered. Potshot : 4th in the Jack McMorrow series.

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McMorrow's search for the truth about some hemp-growing hippies in rural Maine leads him into the darkest side of the drug trade - and human nature. Borderline : McMorrow travels to the sleepy town of Scanesett, Maine, when a man disappears from a tour bus. No one seems to care, except McMorrow, who knows there's a story too good to pass up.

When news breaks of the mayor's murder and police arrest Jack's longtime friend, an ex-cop, Jack's plans quickly change. Set in New York City and in Maine. Pretty Dead : McMorrow investigates the murder of a woman with ties to a very wealthy and prominent Boston family -- who might have buried their dirty secrets with the victim. Home Body : McMorrow -- now working as a copywriter for the Bangor Clarion and living in a small town called Propsperity -- tries to help a runaway teen and ends up delving into the dark underworld of street teens.

Original Booklists: Set in Maine

Damaged Goods : Jack, his wife a social worker , and their young daughter become the target of a deranged satanist after his wife's inquiry into a child abuse case; and, McMorrow pursues a story involving a woman whose newspaper ad offers companionship for hire. Set in and around the dark waterfront of Portland, Maine. Blake is a loner who lives on his old wooden cruiser. The Islands : Set in Maine. An astute young attorney and his friend, Korean War vet Capt. Cal Kent, look beyond the obvious to find the murderer.

Set on the rocky coast of Maine. A man watched Callie all evening long as if he knew her. That night her roommate was murdered and her nightmare began. She fled to a remote island to hide but it was also the perfect place for another murder. Cloak of Darkness : Romantic suspense, set in Maine. Run for Your Life : Romantic suspense, set in Maine. When murder strikes amongst ten people trapped on an island that has been desolated by a weapon more fearful than the atom bomb, the threat of extinction hangs over them all. Experimental bacteriological warfare.

Manhattan veterinarian Gracie Taylor returns to her hometown of Idle Point, Maine, only to find that the man she loved and left on the night of their planned elopment has returned, too. Highlights the destructive side of obsessive love on innocent future generations. A Soft Place to Fall : Romance.

But when Kevin dies suddenly, Annie is left with bittersweet memories, never-fulfilled dreams of children and artistic fame, and massive debt from Kevin's secret gambling addiction. Planning her high-society wedding, she meets a rugged lobsterman. A vacation from the pressures of her upcoming wedding brings Allison more entanglements than she's ever known.

What she finds is a police investigation that is finding its way through tribal traditions and shape-shifting shamans. Another key part of the plot is set in Belfast.

Sparkle Abbey

Christine, or Woman's Trials and Triumphs : The first novel to promote every demand of the women's movement. Christine is a women's right's lecturer who founds a women's employment bureau.

One of her trials is being duped by her father and aunt who imprison her in the Augusta Mental Asylum. The Kristiana Killers : Mystery. Set in Maine and Canada. Two films in and were based on the book. On a Darkling Plain : Samuel Jellerson, 56 and forced into early retirement, is walking in the woods behind the family farm in Maine one fall day when he witnesses a priest molesting a boy.

Envious Shadows : A novel dealing with the integration of mentally-ill halfway house residents back into society, racism, infidelity, and the struggle to survive economically in a small Maine town. Death by Crystal : A Johannah Wilder mystery lesbian sleuth.

Well-plotted mystery, evokes the romance of Maine Portland area and addresses underlying serious issues of government power and individual freedom.


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