The second Borgo Press book of mystery stories presents a collection of great tales by such masters as Michael Kurland, Brian Stableford, Darrell Schweitzer, Don Webb, George Zebrowski, Ardath Mayhar, John Russell Fearn, Lonni Lees, and many more!

You solve the crimes! ... join forces with some expert crime-solvers to untangle the clues and find the guilty parties in these wickedly devious whodunits!

Short mysteries with the solution to the whodunit.

Spirited re-examination of 13 mysteries of English history, from the death of William 2d to the Appin murder in the 18th century.

Who populates the pages of crime and mystery writing? Who are the characters we willingly follow into the mystery genre's uneasy imaginative territory? And who created those characters in the first place? What life experience and expertise informs their work? What are the sources of their themes, regional accents, and even the axes that some grind? Why do some wish to give us a good laugh, while others seem hell-bent on making us shudder? Whodunit? answers these questions and more. Here mystery expert Rosemary Herbert brings together enlightening and entertaining information on hundreds of classic and contemporary characters and authors. Some--such as P.D. James, Ian Rankin, Sherlock Holmes, and Kinsey Millhone--appear in individual entries. Still more keep company in articles about characters we admire, such as the Clerical Sleuth, and in pieces about those we love to hate, including the Femme Fatale and Con Artist. There is even an article on a figure that haunts so many great works of mystery--The Corpse. Drawing on the Edgar Award-nominated volume The Oxford Companion to Crime & Mystery Writing, Herbert adds 101 new entries on the hottest new names in works ranging from puzzling whodunits to chilling crime novels.

Burt Arthur (1899-1975), a longtime Chicago resident, wrote more than 100 novels over the course of his career, plus numerous radioplays and short stories. He also collaborated with his son, Budd Arthur, on westerns. We are pleased to present a collection of four of Burt Arthur's classic western novels in the MEGAPACKTM series. Included in this volume are: BOSS OF THE FAR WEST -- The rough-and-ready miners needed Reed McCandless and his Rangers to enforce law and order. But the crooked mine owner has his own idea of justice... FLAMING GUNS -- Meet "Mustang" Marshall, the man who stirred up the hottest hell-hole in the west! GUNSMOKE IN NEVADA -- Ex-Ranger Johnny Canavan was two hundred pounds of fighting man -- one hundred pounds to each fist. When he decided to clean up the town, the gang of gunslingers figured they'd better get a lot more muscle if they wanted to stop him... SILVER CITY RANGERS -- When a tall, lanky man named Marshall rode into town, he was just travelling through...until a sheriff's dead body stopped him... If you enjoy this volume of classic westerns, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see all the other entries in this series, covering classic and historical fiction, science fiction, fantasy, horror, mysteries -- and much, much more!

This volume assembles 25 tales by Darrell Schweitzer, modern and alternate-world fantasy and horror tales in the "Weird Tales" vein. Included in this volume are some of his very finest works, including "Pennies from Hell," "Peeling It Off," "Kind Yvorian's Wager," and many more! Complete contents: TRANSIENTS A LANTERN MAKER OF AI HANLO THE STORY OF A DADAR REFUGEES FROM AN IMAGINARY COUNTRY THE SORCERER EVORAGDOU THE MYSTERIES OF THE FACELESS KING KING YVORIAN’S WAGER THE SPIRIT OF THE BACK STAIRS THE OUTSIDE MAN SAVAGES ON THE LAST NIGHT OF THE FESTIVAL OF THE DEAD VANDIBAR NASHA IN THE COLLEGE OF SHADOWS ONE OF THE SECRET MASTERS RUNNING TO CAMELOT KVETCHULA KVETCHULA'S DAUGHTER HOW IT ENDED THE MOST BEAUTIFUL DEAD WOMAN IN THE WORLD THE EATER OF HOURS FIGHTING THE ZEPPELIN GANG THE MESSENGER THE LAST HERETIC THE WITCH OF THE WORLD'S END HOWLING IN THE DARK PEELING IT OFF And don't forget to search this ebook store for "Wildside Megapack" to see more entries in this series, covering classic authors and subjects like mysteries, science fiction, westerns, ghost stories -- and much, much more!