
Book Excerpt: you doing with this thing, Smith?"Smith stared at Wade as sullenly as he had at the inspector. "It's my business," he said. "I wasn't hurting anybody, was I?"The cords in Inspector Thompson's neck swelled. "No?" he shouted. "Well--somebody hurt Gordon Munn here...

A dimly lit alley, a shadow flickering beneath a streetlamp, and the sharp scent of mystery hanging in the night air-step into the world where crime fiction collection meets the raw pulse of early twentieth-century storytelling. Within these pages, detective short stories unfold...