The First Mystery Megapack: 25 Modern and Classic Tales by Masters (Mystery Megapack, Book 1)
Language: English
Pages: 295
ISBN: 2:00343873
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Hours of great reading await, with mystery and crime tales from some of the 20th century's most renowned authors.
About the Megapacks
Over the last few years, our “Megapack” series of ebook anthologies has proved to be one of our most popular endeavors. (Maybe it helps that we sometimes offer them as premiums to our mailing list!) One question we keep getting asked is, “Who’s the editor?”
The Megapacks (except where specifically credited) are a group effort. Everyone at Wildside works on them. This includes John Betancourt, Mary Wickizer Burgess, Sam Cooper, Carla Coupe, Steve Coupe, Bonner Menking, Colin Azariah-Kribbs, Robert Reginald. A. E. Warren, and many of Wildside’s authors… who often suggest stories to include (and not just their own!)
Contents:
• “A Senior Discount on Death” is copyright © 2006 by Noreen Wald. It originally appeared in Chesapeake Crimes II
• “Murder on the Orient Express” is copyright © 1995 by Art Taylor. It was originally published in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, December 1995
• “The Stolen Venus,” is copyright © 2008 by Darrell Schweitzer. It was originally appeared in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, October 2008
• “Rear View Murder” is copyright © 2006 by Carla Coupe. It originally appeared in Chesapeake Crimes II
• “Thubway Tham’s Inthult,” by Johnston McCulley, originally appeared in Detective Story Magazine, October 21, 1919
• “The Ides of March,” by E.W. Hornung, originally appeared in The Amateur Cracksman (1905)
• “Pinprick” is copyright © 2009 by Skadi Beorg. It was originally published in the short story collection Always After Thieves Watch
• “The Red Herring,” by William Hope Hodgson, originally appeared in Captain Gault (1917)
• “Dragon Bones” is copyright © 2003 by Jacqueline Seewald. It was originally published by Orchard Press Mysteries in September 2003
• “The Golden Slipper,” by Anna Katherine Green, originally appeared in The Golden Slipper and Other Problems for Violet Strange (1915)
• “Kali,” by Eric Taylor, originally appeared in All-Star Detective, November 1929
• “Driven to Distraction” is copyright © 2006 by Marcia Talley. It originally appeared in Chesapeake Crimes II
• “The Blue Cross,” by G.K. Chesterton, originally appeared in The Innocence of Father Brown (1911)
• “The Worst Noel” is copyright © 2009 by Barb Goffman. It originally appeared in The Gift of Murder
• “Mr. Clackworthy’s Pot of Gold,” by Christopher B. Booth, originally appeared in Detective Story Magazine (1920)
• “The Monkey God,” by Seabury Quinn, originally appeared in Real Detective Tales, April-May, 1927
• “Wedding Knife” is copyright © 2004 by Elaine Viets. It was originally published in Chesapeake Crimes
• “The Mad Detective,” by John D. Swain, originally appeared in Detective Story Magazine, May 8, 1926
• “The Adventure of the Diamond Necklace,” by G.F. Forrest, originally appeared in Misfits: A Book of Parodies (1905)
• “Security Blanket” is copyright © 2004 by Toni L.P. Kelner. It was was originally published in Riptide: Crime Stories by New England Writers
• “A Crook Without Honor,” by Johnston McCulley, originally appeared in Detective Story Magazine (1921)
• “The Daughter of Huang Chow,” by Sax Rohmer originally appeared in Tales of Chinatown (1922)
• “Anchors Away,” is copyright © 2010 by C. Ellett Logan. It originally appeared in Chesapeake Crimes: They Had It Comin’
• “Ways of Darkness,” by E.S. Pladwell, originally appeared in All-Story Weekly, October 25, 1919
• “Thubway Tham’s Inthane Moment,” by Johnston McCulley, originally appeared in Detective Story Magazine, Nov. 19. 1918
myself shooting at a mark. Had it a long time, and never got a chance to fire it off in the city.” The bearded figure nodded. “Mebbe you’ll have a real mark to shoot at. Hope not, and tain’t likely. This neighborhood is very peaceable. Everybody knows everybody else, or at least, we cal’lated we did. But I just got a telephone message; we’ve all of us got telephones, but you. That’s why I came over to warn ye. Didn’t seem right, somehow, with you two city folks sleeping like as not with the door
more than a whisper so that the sheriff had to lean toward him to catch what he said. “Sanford Teller—the Wallis operative—he has been staying in my house four days; and—” The unlighted cigar dropped from Thomas’ lips. “What’s that?” he cried sharply. “What are you saying?” Weston roused himself with an effort, as a drugged man forces himself back to the realities of life. “He said that nobody was to know he had been called in, only the district attorney who sent for him. I was above all not
collection that must be worth thousands. He showed me snuff-bottles, cut out of gems, and with a little opening no bigger than the hole in a pipe-stem, but with wonderful paintings done inside the bottles. He’d got a model of a pagoda made out of human teeth, and a big golden rug woven from the hair of Circassian slave girls. Excuse this, Chief Inspector; I know it is what you call the romantic stuff; but I think it would have impressed you if you had seen it. Anyway, I bought a little enamelled
rope near the radiator Roy saw a white sheet of paper. There was a message on the paper: * “Roy darling: Terribly sleepy. Believe I am drugged. Lowering rope now at eleven-twenty. If it is not discovered and you find this, get police. Margaret.” * Roy dropped the note into a pocket. He drew his revolver, left the room and descended the stairs to the ground floor of the house. The stairs led to the reception hall. So far Roy was on familiar ground. Passing the portières of the drawing room,
Ellett Logan. It originally appeared in Chesapeake Crimes: They Had It Comin’. Reprinted with the author’s permission. “Ways of Darkness,” by E.S. Pladwell, originally appeared in All-Story Weekly, October 25, 1919. “Thubway Tham’s Inthane Moment,” by Johnston McCulley, originally appeared in Detective Story Magazine, Nov. 19. 1918. A NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER The First Mystery Megapack is identical to The Mystery Megapack. We are planning additional volumes in the series and have renamed the