A shocking Sherlock Holmes story, too scandalous for Watson to publish during his lifetime--and perhaps too controversial even now.

A radical artist is on the run from the censorship agency, leaving her mark behind her through tattoos. But in the process, she literally makes one of her clients a "marked man."

Corky always knew the kid was a wannabe, and it came as no surprise to him that he was being paid to copy another man's tattoo onto his body. But by the time he discovered whose tattoo it really was... more »

A borderline-SF case for Holmes; one of the stories that Watson mentions in the sacred texts but never wrote up. The revolting Red Leech, Sanguisuga rufa, is even more sinister than it looks.... [Au... more »

A game of phone tag turns out horribly wrong in this short-short crime story about a love triangle and one woman's frustrated plans to escape to the Bahamas, told completely through answering machin... more »

What was the real crime committed in Shakespeare's The Tempest, and by whom? Unsatisfied with the happy ending, Gonzalo investigates.... There's a subtle clue in the epigraph quotation, which genuin... more »

The naked city holds a hundred secrets, including talking house plants and a witch with an innovative business plan.

All signs point to murder in "The Eye of the Beholder." A wounded American pilot in WWII England discovers that a horoscope can be a deadly weapon, and that the battle he sees before him is not the ... more »

Bodyguard Eli Paxton takes a job protecting a wealthy heiress and finds himself framed as an accomplice to murder.

Emily Groves had committed the perfect murder. No one suspected a thing. Yet her real troubles had only begun.

A voyeuristic bookstore clerk's secret passion for one of the regular customers becomes more than just browsing....

An unpublished cartoonist notices a suspicious connection between his crime stories and his neighbor's behavior ... and reveals the origin of the world's most famous comic strip detective. more »

All of the witnesses identify the same man as the killer. Unfortunately, he was in jail at the time of the murder.

Not even the death of his client will stop this PI from earning his fee.

Just because she's a civilian who works in Records doesn't mean she can't solve a murder.

Inspired by mockingbirds, a young lawyer in Colonial Williamsburg named Thomas Jefferson solves a murder and debates issues such as liberty and the rights of--woman.

A medieval abbot is annoyed when, in the midst of his usual duties, he's called upon to solve the murder of a pilgrim. Little does he suspect that the solution will profoundly affect his faith.more »

A woman commits suicide for no apparent reason. A week later, her son--beautiful, troubled fifteen-year-old Mark Underhill--vanishes from the face of the earth. To his uncle, horror novelist Timothy... more »

The Amber Room is one of the greatest treasures ever made by man: an entire room forged of exquisite amber, from its four massive walls to its finely crafted furniture. But it is also the subject of... more »

From the acclaimed co-creator of Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law, and NYPD Blue, Death by Hollywood is a suspenseful, shocking, and darkly comic crime novel about a screenwriter, a billionaire's wife, a... more »

In the heat of a passionate encounter, ecstasy suddenly turns to terror for renowned geneticist and TV personality Dr. Kathleen Sullivan. Stricken by a brain hemorrhage, she is rendered completely p... more »

In a small upstate New York town, an idyllic lake yields a ghastly discovery when the skeletal remains of a young woman missing for twenty-seven years are pulled from the icy depths--along with unmi... more »

Sniper is the behind-the-scenes story of one of the most frightening rampages to occur in U.S. history--and how it was stopped. For more than three weeks, the nation watched in disbelief as Washingt... more »