Archive for Mystery/Suspense
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SHARP BOUNDARIES • Patricia J. Hale
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It rained that night and I almost didn’t go through with it.
Mystery/Suspense, Stories
The deadly idea came to me when I listened in on Karl describing the plan to Regine. He loved her and I followed them everywhere. Sitting near them in the café, I smelled her cigarettes. Watched them make eyes at each other in the [...]
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WITHOUT NAPIER • by Michael Ehart 35 Comments
“You are my heart and muscle, Yardi,” Napier would say. “There is no criminal in all of Marseilles who can stand against us.” Indeed, for over 30 years I had helped Napier solve crimes, but I had not his wit nor his eloquence. Napier would gather the suspects and through his incisive logic and clarity [...]
Mystery/Suspense, Stories
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DOING IT WITH A GUN • by Patricia J. Hale 13 Comments
He wasn’t just a liar and womanizer, but I thought when Rick learned, he might surprise me. He didn’t.
Mystery/Suspense, Stories
But I was a new convert to the religion of protection and preparation.
I arranged to meet him in the place we first did it, an abandoned Chinese restaurant space in not the greatest part of town.
“You were [...]
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WAITING • by Peter Rowney 14 Comments
The last train to anywhere was gone. Outside the night was foul; rain spattered on the windows and ran down the glass in sorry rivulets, leaking through the skylight at a couple of places where glazing putty had cracked and fallen away. I’d mentioned it several times to the maintenance man–while he was busy gazing [...]
Mystery/Suspense, Stories
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SAWMILL ROAD • by Katherine Shaw 26 Comments
There were four of them, not counting two younger brothers who tagged along whenever it couldn’t be helped. That summer they called themselves the Mystery Hunters, because Samantha was reading a thirty-book series about kids who solved crimes. But there were no crimes in Lakeport.
Mystery/Suspense, Stories
There was only Sawmill Road, curving through the trees and dead-ending [...]
