Malice Domestic

Distinguishing the personal and private aspects of crime from the public and impersonal, Malice Domestic 1 is a collection of mystery tales from such masters of the genre as Diane Mott Davidson, Caroline G. Hart, Charlotte MacLeod, and Sharyn McCrumb. The perpetrators in these stories don't murder for the fun of it (serial killers), for misguided ideals (terrorists), or for pay (hired hit men). They only do in people they know and love-or hate-in these stories: • "Happiness Is a Dead Poet" by Sharyn McCrumb • "Henrie O.'s Holiday" by Caroline G. Hart • "Take Care of Yourself" by Janet LaPierre • "The Perplexing Puzzle of the Perfidious Pigeon Poisoner" by Charlotte McLeod • "The Ties That Bind" by L.B. Greenwood • "Night Visitor" by Audrey Peterson • "The Jersey Lily (or Make Me Immortal with a Kiss)" by P.M. Carlson • "The Cottonwood Creek Caper" by Diane Mott Davidson

Mary Higgins Clark serves a feast of original traditional mystery stories in classic Agatha Christie style. Featured writers include Amanda Cross, Frances Fyfield, and K.K. Beck. The stories included here are: • " Who Shot Mrs. Bryon Boyd?" by Amanda Cross • " The Return of Ma Barker" by Gary Alexander • " Even Steven" by Taylor McCafferty • " Cold and Deep" by Frances Fyfield • " A Romance in the Rockies" by K.K. Beck • " Goodbye, Sue Ellen" by Gillian Roberts • " Kim' s Game" by M.D. Lake • " The Neiman Marcus Body" by Lecretia Grindle • " Water" by Sally Gunning • " Arsenic and Old Ideas" by Jan Grape

Acclaimed Agatha Award-winning author Nancy Pickard presents this anthology of original mystery stories by some of the most distinguished mystery writers of the 20th century, including Dorothy Cannell and Sharyn McCrumb. Compiled in honor of the most beloved crime writer of all time- Agatha Christie- this collection includes: • " His Tears" " by Marilyn Wallace • " Cast Your Fate to the Wind" by Deborah Adams • " Sign of the Times" by Nancy Pickard • " Fannie's Back Fence Caper" by Susan and Bill Albert • " The Dying Light" by Taylor McCafferty • " The Family Jewels (A Moral Tale)" by Dorothy Cannell • " The Trouble with the Shoot" by Camilla T. Crespi • " High Heels in the Headliner" by Wendy Hornsby • " Cara's Turn" by Marlys Millhiser • " Gentle Reader" by Sharyn McCrumb

Mystery Writers of America grand master Phyllis A. Whitney, author of more than 70 best sellers-presides over a salon of the wittiest writers of mystery in this fifth sparkling entry in the “Malice Domestic” series. The contributors to this collection deliver skillfully plotted crime writing that is a credit to the Agatha Christie tradition. Short stories include: • "A Parrot Is Forever" by Peter Lovesey • "Accidents Will Happen" by Carolyn Wheat • "Bugged" by Eve K. Sandstrom • "The Bun Also Rises" by Jill Churchill • "Hill People" by Dean Feldmeyer • "Double Jeopardy" by Eileen Dreyer • "Vivian by Moonlight" by Medora Sale • "Crossed Keys" by Patricia Moyes • "Barbecued Bimbo" by Susan Rogers Cooper • "Honeymoon" by Nancy Atherton

Ten mysteries by some of the finest writers from America and Britain. Esteemed mystery writer Anne Perry, author of more than twenty-five novels and two acclaimed detective series, heads up a delectable cast of writers, the very best from both sides of the Atlantic. In the tradition of honored crime writers Agatha Christie, Malice Domestic, Volume 6 jumps the pond between Britain and America to deliver 100 percent pure suspense in all its spine-tingling glory. The ten mysteries included here are read by Stephanie Beacham, Christopher Cazenove, Reed Diamond, Judy Geeson, Patrick Macnee, and Emmy winners Juliet Mills and William Windom. "The Corbett Correspondence" by Edward Marston & Peter Lovesey "The Gentleman's Gentleman" by Dorothy Cannell "The Two Ladies of Rose Cottage" by Peter Robinson "Sweet Fruition" by David Williams "Ways to Kill a Cat" by Simon Brett "Like to Die" by Catherine Aird "Time's Winged Chariot" by Marjorie Eccles "Immortality {Sebastian Grady}" by Jon L. Breen "Mea Culpa" by Jan Burke "Malice among Friends" by Sarah Caudwell