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  • Beach Party

    by James Holding ...
    After the ambulance carries away a stricken guest, a husband and wife linger on a Gulf beach amid the wreckage of their cookout. Beer cans, paper plates, charred skewers, and a dying fire surround them as their conversation slips from sympathy to something far more chilling. The husband, fortified by warm scotch, begins to gloat—and to explain.What unfolds beside the embers is a confession dressed ... Read more

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  • James Holding’s Murder & Mayhem MEGAPACK ™: 24 Classic Mystery Stories and a Poem

    by James Holding ...
    James Holding enjoys a reputation as one of the more prolific contributors to the mystery magazines of the 1960s and 1970s. (Our bibliography shows nearly 200 stories published in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Magazine, etc.) He had series, such as the "Leroy King" stories (which poke gentle fun at "Ellery Queen"). He had standalones. ... Read more

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  • The Library Fuzz MEGAPACK ®: The Complete Hal Johnson Series

    by James Holding ...
    James Holding (1907-1997) was a prolific short story author in the mystery field. (He also wrote children's books -- including the Ellery Queen Jr. series -- but short stories were his true domain.) Among the many series he created, the "Library Fuzz" stories, about detective Hal Johnson who tracks down overdue library books (and often stumbles across bigger crimes) is one of the most unusual.. ... Read more

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  • Conversation Piece

    by James Holding ...
    At the Metropolitan Museam, a janitor discuses the authenticity of a Bruegel piece with a visiting art-lover. There is more here than meets the eye… ... Read more

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  • Black Cat Weekly #68

    by N.M. Cedeño, Heather Critchlow, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Hal Charles, Milton J. Davis, Lester del Rey, James Holding, Hal Meredith, Ray Bradbury ...
    Our 68th weekly issue has several holiday tales to spice up the season, including an original (“Merry Library Murder,” by N.M. Cedeño, courtesy of Acquiring Editor Michael Bracken) and some modern classics by Heather Critchlow (courtesy of Acquiring Editor Barb Goffman) and one of my own favorite authors, Nina Kiriki Hoffman (she’s amazing!) Cynthia Ward has selected an exciting fantasy from ... Read more

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  • Black Cat Weekly #1

    Mystery and Science Fiction Novels and Short Stories

    by Michael Bracken, Mack Reynolds, Keith Laumer, Erle Stanley Gardner, Brian Evenson, Hal Charles, Ralph Milne Farley, Harry Stephen Keeler, James Holding ...
    The Black Cat web site has been around for almost four years now, serving up a weekly buffet of new and classic mysteries—and more recently science fiction—to thousands of readers each week. Rather than continue to release all these novels and stories as individual ebooks, we have decided to bundle them up into a convenient weekly magazine…which is a lot more fun to work on!So here is Black Cat ... Read more

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  • The Consultant

    by James Holding ...
    Charles Deschamps, the Paris couturier, was going to bring down necklines in his next collection and one man knew about it six months ahead of time. Foreknowledge of a fact like that is all a good consultant needs to make him dream dreams and see visions: dreams of idleness and sybaritic luxury, and visions tinted uniformly green, like the folding money which alone can make such dreams come true. ... Read more

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  • Cop-Killer

    by James Holding ...
    Pacing the streets of the South Side in the dark, dangerous, dragging hours before dawn, Kangaroo Kelly would often feed himself cheerfully this little morale booster: “Any of these mugs rub me out, even by accident, they’re dead, too. And they know it. For there’s six hundred cops in this town who’ll get them for it if it takes a hundred years. I’m a cop. And you don’t kill cops. Unless you want ... Read more

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  • Rediscovery

    by James Holding ...
    When an old professor of art informs a museum curator that a piece his institution owns is actually half of a full statue—whose other section is housed at the Louvre—an old crime begins to unravel. ... Read more

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  • Shima Maru

    by James Holding ...
    Vetuka of the Shark Clan, anging Melanesian fishermen and ,diver is approached by his nephew Likuva and Japanese friend Michiko to find the wreck of the WW II-era Japanese warship Shima Maru, which was carrying 50,000 gold yen. They find the ship and make plans to retrieve the gold, but Vetuka discovers they have something far more nefarious in mind. ... Read more

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  • Hand in Glove

    by James Holding ...
    An inspector investigating the death of a blackmailer finds a suspect—but the man has an alibi. There's something fishy about it, but the inspector can't quite put his finger on what. ... Read more

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  • The Murder MEGAPACK®: 22 Classic and Modern Tales of Crime and Murder

    by Talmage Powell, Rufus King, James Holding, James B. Hendryx ...
    Murder -- it's one of the staples of mystery fiction. One of the unwritten rules of the mystery novel is to start your murder in the first chapter...and on the first page, if possible! Collected here are 22 tales of murder. Some are fiendish. ("The Doorbell" is especially chilling.) Some are exotic. (Egyptian mummy murder? You bet!) Some take place in far-off locations. (The Canadian woods? At sea ... Read more

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