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Contents Preface · Bonnie L. Heintz, Frank Herbert, Donald A. Joos & Jane Agorn McGee · pr Science Fiction and You · Frank Herbert The Star · H.G. Wells The Subliminal Man · J.G. Ballard The Waveries · Fredric Brown Nightfall · Isaac Asimov The Nothing · Frank Herbert Bitter End · Eric Frank Russell The Winner · Donald E. Westlake The Lawgiver · Keith Laumer Utopian · Mack Reynolds Rescue Party · Arthur C. Clarke For the Sake of Grace · Suzette Haden Elgin The Other Foot · Ray Bradbury Crate · Theodore Sturgeon The Cloudbuilders · Colin Kapp The Shortest Science Fiction Story Ever Told · Forrest J. Ackerman Street of Dreams, Feet of Clay · Robert Sheckley The Veldt [“The World the Children Made”] · Ray Bradbury After the Myths Went Home · Robert Silverberg Arena · Fredric Brown “Repent, Harlequin!” Said the Ticktockman · Harlan Ellison The Hole on the Corner · R.A. Lafferty Texas Week · Albert Hernhuter Hemeac · E.G. Von Wald This Grand Carcass · R.A. Lafferty The Perfect Woman · Robert Sheckley Desertion [City (Websters)] · Clifford D. Simak Here There Be Tygers · Ray Bradbury Crucifixus Etiam · Walter M. Miller, Jr. Sunrise on Mercury [as by Calvin M. Knox] · Robert Silverberg Omnilingual · H. Beam Piper The Sentinel [“Sentinel of Eternity”] · Arthur C. Clarke Seeds of the Dusk · Raymond Z. Gallun Specialist · Robert Sheckley Half-Breed [Half-Breeds] · Isaac Asimov Bomb Scare · Vernor Vinge Keyhole · Murray Leinster Sundance · Robert Silverberg Goldfish Bowl [as by Anson MacDonald] · Robert A. Heinlein Sword Game · H. H. Hollis The Singing Bell [Wendell Urth] · Isaac Asimov Private Eye · Lewis Padgett

A host of lethal possibilities, resourceful criminals, ingenious schemes, and illegal activities is featured in a selection of mystery tales, written by masters of the genre

Fifty Best Mysteries is a who's who of mystery from the pages of the leading magazine in the field. Showcasing the best short fiction published in Ellery Queen magazine over the past sixty years, this book is a treasure trove for mystery lovers everywhere. As editor Eleanor Sullivan writes, "I took the task by decades and decided to go after solid and entertaining stories by regular and significant contributors, stories that reflected the time in which they were written and the best work being produced in that decade." To this end, Sullivan has collected an astounding array of talent, from early works by John Dickson Carr, Margery Allingham, Anthony Boucher, and Ngaio Marsh in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, to later selections by Patricia Highsmith, Robert Bloch, Ruth Rendell, Donald E. Westlake, and Simon Brett that have appeared over the past three decades.

These 32 classic crime stories illuminate the genre's best-known plot constructions--including the locked room, the caper, hoist on their own petards, and over the edge. Covering over 150 years of crime and detective fiction, featuring styles from the hard-boiled to the cozy, Murderous Schemes profiles the writing of Agatha Christie, Ellery Queen, Rex Stout, Dorothy L. Sayers, Edgar Allan Poe, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and many others.

Intrigue abounds in this fun, sexy story about a debutante in disguise and a handsome race car driver who must solve a murder, save a life, and fall in love before they spin out of control. He's fast. She's furious. They're in for the ride of their lives. When sexy ​NASCAR racer Beau Lansing tracks down high society debutante Celeste Bennett, it's a matter of life or death. Stunned at the secret Beau reveals, Celeste is forced to make a life-altering decision. But with her love life on the skids and her family life in a tailspin, escaping incognito into Beau's world is just what she needs—especially if she can get answers about her past. Beau needs Celeste to save a man's life—he never expected a high-octane attraction that could wreck his well-protected heart. And when Celeste's life is threatened by someone who clearly knows her real identity, Beau has to risk everything—including his own life—to save her. With menacing forces in the driver's seat and time ticking too fast, the two must win the biggest race of all...the race for their lives and their love.

A collection of short stories celebrates twenty-five years of publishing by Mysterious Press, with contributions from M. C. Beaton, Charlotte Carter, Jerome Charyn, Stuart M. Kaminsky, and many other notable authors. 18,000 first printing.

Forge Books is proud to present an amazing collection of novellas, compiled by New York Times bestselling author Ed McBain. Transgressions is a quintessential classic of never-before-published tales from today's very best novelists. Faeturing: "Walking Around Money" by Donald E. Westlake: The master of the comic mystery is back with an all-new novella featuring hapless crook John Dortmunder, who gets involved in a crime that supposedly no one will ever know happened. Naturally, when something it too good to be true, it usually is, and Dortmunder is going to get to the bottom of this caper before he's left holding the bag. "Hostages" by Anne Perry: The bestselling historical mystery author has written a tale of beautiful yet still savage Ireland today. In their eternal struggle for freedom, there is about to be a changing of the guard in the Irish Republican Army. Yet for some, old habits-and honor-still die hard, even at gunpoint. "The Corn Maiden" by Joyce Carol Oates: When a fourteen-year-old girl is abducted in a small New York town, the crime starts a spiral of destruction and despair as only this master of psychological suspense could write it. "Archibald Lawless, Anarchist at Large: Walking the Line" by Walter Mosley: Felix Orlean is a New York City journalism student who needs a job to cover his rent. An ad in the paper leads him to Archibald Lawless, and a descent into a shadow world where no one and nothing is as it first seems. "The Resurrection Man" by Sharyn McCrumb": During America's first century, doctors used any means necessary to advance their craft-including dissecting corpses. Sharyn McCrumb brings the South of the 1850s to life in this story of a man who is assigned to dig up bodies to help those that are still alive. "Merely Hate" by Ed McBain: When a string of Muslim cabdrivers are killed, and the evidence points to another ethnic group, the detectives of the 87th Precinct must hunt down a killer before the city explodes in violence. "The Things They Left Behind" by Stephen King: In the wake of the worst disaster on American soil, one man is coming to terms with the aftermath of the Twin Towers-when he begins finding the things they left behind. "The Ransome Women" by John Farris: A young and beautiful starving artist is looking to catch a break when her idol, the reclusive portraitist John Ransome offers her a lucrative year-long modeling contract. But how long will her excitement last when she discovers the fate shared by all Ransome's past subjects? "Forever" by Jeffery Deaver: Talbot Simms is an unusual cop-he's a statistician with the Westbrook County Sheriff Department. When two wealthy couples in the county commit suicide one right after the other, he thinks that it isn't suicide-it's murder, and he's going to find how who was behind it, and how the did it. "Keller's Adjustment" by Lawrence Block: Everyone's favorite hit man is back in MWA Grand Master Lawrence Block's novella, where the philosophical Keller deals out philosophy and murder on a meandering road trip from one end of the America to the other.

Walking around money / Donald E. Westlake. - Hostage / Anne Perry. - The resurrection man / Sharyn McCrumb. - The ransome women / John Farris.