Book Detective puzzles - short stories - Flame Tree Publishing

Private eyes with hawk-eyed vision and rare skills, detectives and gumshoes, tracking dogs and sleuths, the dark art of the detective has fascinated us since tales of the Pinkerton Detective Agency and Sherlock Holmes. Add betrayal, intimacy, and a touch of murder, and you'll find a powerful series of dark stories by classic and contemporary writers.

This new title in our successful Gothic Fantasy Short Stories collection features a fantastic blend of classic and entirely new writing, with contemporary authors from the USA, Canada, and the United Kingdom.

The contemporary authors featured in this anthology include: Daniel Brock, Elliott Capon, Philip Brian Hall, Tina L. Jens, Tom Mead, Marshall J. Moore, Pat Morris, Amelia Dee Mueller, Trixie Nisbet, Patsy Pratt-Herzog, Michele Bazan Reed, Lesley L. Smith, and Cameron Trost.

Classic authors include Margery Allingham, Robert Barr, Anthony Berkeley, Matthias McDonnell Bodkin, William Evans Burton, G.K. Chesterton, Carroll John Daly, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Eustace, Edgar Jepson, J.S. Fletcher, R. Austin Freeman, Jacques Futrelle, Susan Glaspell, Anna Katharine Green, Thomas W. Hanshew, E. and H. Heron, Herbert Jenkins, Maurice Leblanc, L.T. Meade, Robert Eustace, Arthur Morrison, Baroness Orczy, Catherine Louisa Pirkis, Melville Davisson Post, Edgar Wallace, Hugh C. Weir, Mrs. Henry Wood.

Fascinating titles and a wide range of authors exemplify the Flame Tree Publishing brand.

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