Epub (my conversion) Dark, unnerving and wickedly funny, Patrick McGrath's acclaimed short stories deal in the bizarre, the erotic and the unexpected. A failed writer meets an ageing gin-queen who claims he was once visited by an angel; a little girl finds a delirious, dying explorer fr
Blood in the Water and Other Secrets
β Scribed by Law, Janice
- Book ID
- 106980387
- Publisher
- Wildside Press LLC.
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 191 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
This volume collects 22 stories from the author of the Anna Peters mystery series, many published in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine or Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. Included are: "Secrets," "Lions on the Lawn," "The Summer of the Strangler," "My Life in Crime," "Lying," "Blood in the Water," "My Famous Relative," "Perfection," "The Blind Woman," "A Meeting at the CafΓ© Visconti," "Pigskill," "The Archeologist's Revenge," "Star of the Silver Screen," "Ghost Writer," "Tabloid Press," "My Demon Lover," "The Man Kali Visited," "The View From Above," "To Beauty," "Ideas in My Head," "The Paradise Garden," and "The Helpful Stranger." Great reading from a master of the short-form mystery!
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