A collection of sixteen mysteries culled from the pages of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine features Southern twists by such writers as Raymond Carver and Eudora Welty. Reprint. AB.

This delightfully intriguing pair of full-length mysteries by award-winning author Carolyn G. Hart delivers a novel approach to murder that is sure to enthrall you until the last killer is caught.. . . Death on Demand At Annie Laurance’s Death on Demand bookstore in Broward’s Rock, South Carolina (“the finest mystery bookstore north of Miami”), murder suddenly isn’t confined to the shelves. An author’s abrupt demise during a gathering of famous mystery writers is proof positive that a bloody sword is sometimes mightier than a brilliant pen. But now Annie is in the unenviable position of prime suspect, which means that she and her wealthy paramour, Max Darling, must unmask a brutal and ingenious killer. For Annie, failing could mean prison . . . while success could mean her death. Design for Murder When Annie stages a Mystery Night for Chastain, South Carolina’s annual antebellum house tour, she finds herself the lead in a deadly drama wherein the curtain falls on a mean-spirited grande dame. But while fingers point at Annie as the murderer, the perpetrator lurks within the cast of Murder-Most-Make-Believe. Guilty until proven innocent, Annie hopes to clear her name with Max’s help—until her chief witness is killed. Now it will take all of Annie’s sleuthing skills to unmask the evil in the hearts of Chastain’s Beautiful People.

Once again murder and other dark doings strike the small city of Fort York, Canada, during World War II and Inspector Albert V. Trethewaynow Regional Officer, Air Raid Precautionis the one man who can solve the mystery. It all begins on January 13th, 1943 when Fort York is in the midst of its most complete wartime blackout. Suddenly there are reports of an eerie flumelike light in the marsh outside the town. Tretheway finds evidence of weird practices that his friend Cynthia Moon identifies as the work of a coven of witches. This is a fitting sequelat once hilarious and bloodchillingto the first Tretheway mystery, A Good Year for Murder.

"Recently widowed Laura MacLure sets out on a voyage of the Maritimes only to discover that she is caught up in the middle of a murder mystery. Surrounded by strangers, an endless number of suspects, and an admiring man who she is not sure she can trust, Laura must uncover who the killer is before they get away with murder and a family fortune."--BOOK JACKET.

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