Jack Halliday is an author, award-winning screenwriter and consulting producer whose work has appeared in numerous digital and print publications. His first fiction collection, «Kawanga/Swan Song and Other Mystery Stories,» was published by Wildside Press as their 12th Mystery Double. This volume collects 3 of his great stories:<P> FINDING PHYLLIS<BR> IN THE BLOOD<BR> THE WOMAN IN THE ELEVATOR
19 essays on Sherlock Holmes and most especially Doctor Watson, written with a doctor's appreciation. Included are:<P> Doctor Watson and the Weather<BR> The Anatomical Sherlock Holmes<BR> “Brain Fever” and Sherlock Holmes<BR> Curare and Sherlock Holmes<BR> Sherlock Holmes and the Portuguese Man-of-War<BR> Doctor Watson and Nervous Maladies<BR> Dogs and Sherlock Holmes<BR> The Botanical Doctor Watson<BR> The Surgical Doctor Watson<BR> Sherlock Holmes, the Chemist<BR> Doctor Watson’s Universal Specific<BR> Doctor Watson, Endocrinologist<BR> Genetics and Sherlock Holmes<BR> The Zoological Doctor Watson<BR> Doctor Watson, Cardiologist<BR> The Physiologic Doctor Watson<BR> Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson, Perennial Athletes<BR> The Therapeutic Doctor Watson<BR> Doctor Watson, General Practitioner
Semyon Grovanov, a Ukranian national who attended an elite spy school, is to settle down in the United States with a spy «wife» using forged Canadian passports. But will the lure of American life prove too much?
Classic mystery story by Gil Brewer. Shortly after going AWOL from the Navy, Al York find his wife completely changed: she has started drinking, he knows she's having an affair, she is clear that she doesn't really want to be with him any more. Jack pays a street thug, Bart Snyder to check up on Nina's supposed lover, Errol Trout. And that's where the trouble starts…
Carmoody looked down again at the slack and awkwardly positioned nude body of the young girl lying on the kitchen floor of No. 5, Gulf-ways Motel. Nice figure, dusty black hair in sharp contrast against the white tile floor, dark blue eyes that were half-lidded and glaring in the lamplight. Her throat was cut. <P> A noir mystery classic originally published in 1956!
Gil Brewer's psychological deconstruction of a dysfunctional suburban family when they are faced with crime. Contains rape and adult themes. [Originally published in 1957.]
When enough money is involved, there is more than one way to bend a will to one's desires....
A cold-war comedy of errors ensues, when an experimental Agamemnon XI ICBM lands in the small town of Dexter, Pennsylvania. The small town of Dexter experiences panic at the missile's landing, of course. Mike Brewer, the editor for Dexter's newspaper convinces the town's mayor, Leon Gladfelter, to phone a night duty officer at the Pentagon… But the Department of Defense won't accept responsibility for the error, so Mayor Gladfelter exercises the town's right of emminent domain and declares it the property of Dexter. Further, he appoints Brewer as the agent responsible for disposal of said property…even if they have to sell it to a foreign government!