William Burton McCormick

Broschiertes Buch

Deeds of Darkness

William Burton McCormick Short Story Collections

Beschreibung

"This guy has a wonderfully twisted mind! Buckle up for a scary ride." - Peter James, International bestselling crime thriller author Deeds of Darkness is the best short fiction by award-winning author William Burton McCormick. A collection of twenty-four globetrotting stories of suspense, mystery, crime, espionage, horror, and historical genres from the pages of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, The Saturday Evening Post, Mystery Magazine, and elsewhere. Deeds of Darkness includes stories nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award, Shamus Award, Thriller Award, and five Derringer Award-nominated stories. Also included are two unabridged novellas, "Demon in the Depths," which finished second in the Ellery Queen's Readers' Poll for 2021, and "House of Tigers," named to the Honor Roll for both the Black Orchid Novel Award and the Mysterious Bookshop's Best Mystery Stories of 2023. Deeds of Darkness takes readers from¿war-torn Eastern Europe to gangster America and deep below the frozen seas of the Arctic Ocean. From modern tales of crime to World War II espionage to ghost stories in shadowy Odessa and murder in Ancient Rome, every flavor of suspense and adventure awaits within. "McCormick is one of the most inventive and original writers currently working in the mystery short story field." - Janet Hutchings, Editor-in-Chief, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine

Autor

William Burton McCormick is a Shamus, Derringer, and Claymore awards finalist whose fiction regularly appears in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, The Saturday Evening Post, and elsewhere. He is a graduate of Brown University, earned an MA in Novel Writing from the University of Manchester (UK), and was elected a Hawthornden Writing Fellow in Scotland. His historical novel of the Baltic Republics, LENIN'S HAREM, was the first work of fiction added to the permanent library at the Latvian War Museum in R¿ga. A native of Nevada, William lived more than a decade in Latvia, Estonia, and Ukraine, the key settings of KGB BANKER.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Level Short
• Seitenzahl: 578
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 927g
• ISBN-13: 9781685127909
• ISBN-10: 1685127908
• Artikelnr.: 72128771