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Noir - Case of Bruce Howard

by Emmanuel Obi, Jr

This time Bruce Howard is the target but he won't go down without taking somebody with him. The fourth installment of the Noir series forces Bruce Howard to show a little of his dark side. Previous short stories:...

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The Case of the Schmoldenese Falcon

by John Northern

A humorous, science fiction short story

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Noir - Case of the Dead Pediatrician

by Emmanuel Obi, Jr

After a pediatrician's dead body crashes through his office window, Bruce Howard begins an investigation that leads him to believe that maybe this man is better off dead. Should he even bother trying to find...

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Noir - Case of the Sphinx

by Emmanuel Obi, Jr

The second installment in a short story series featuring Bruce Howard; the lady-killing private investigator. In this case, one of his “bed buddies” comes to him for help when a serial killer has targeted...

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Noir - Case of My Missing Love

by Emmanuel Obi, Jr

The first in a series of short stories chronicling the cases of Bruce Howard, a charmingly intelligent private investigator that has more heart than he realizes. In this case, his young neighbor, Timmy, asks...

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The Judgment of the Man-Mountain

by Scott Maddix

Travelers in seek of a fugitive fall afoul of the unfamiliar customs of a backwater canton.

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The Ghost, the Girl, and the Gun

by Ted Boone

Casper O'Neal is a private investigator. He's good at his job: his clients respect him, his targets fear him, and nobody particularly likes him. When Casper wakes up in his office with a throbbing headache,...

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No Hope for Gomez - Chapter One

by Graham Parke

It's the age-old tale: Boy meets girl. Boy stalks girl. Girl already has a stalker. Boy becomes her stalker-stalker. We've seen it all before, many times, but this time it's different. If only slightly.

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The Hound of the Baskervilles Retrained

by Artemis Conyn Doyle

A Shyrlock Holmes story. When Dr Mortimer asks for the help of famous consulting detective Ms. Shylock Holmes and her stalwart companion Dr Joan Watson, they may have expected some dark family secrets to be...

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Sherlock Holmes

gender switch

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The Defective Detective : Cat Chaser

by Adam Maxwell

It's the first case for Clint, probably the world's only narcoleptic detective, and everything should be going really well. To be brutal, it probably would be going a lot better if he'd managed to stay awake...

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dark comedy

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Cashier World

by Tom Lichtenberg

A collection of stories, including the Legend of the Wandering Cashier, the roadside diner Angel of Death, and the classic tale of the Bathroom on the Bus

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Squatter With a Lexus

by Tom Lichtenberg

Pearson Holmes disappeared a long time ago, leaving behind a potentially valuable safety deposit box. Freddy the Freegan is the first to stumble across the mystery, but soon a whole cast of characters are out...

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bank robbery

treasure hunt

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Death Ray Butterfly

by Tom Lichtenberg

Inspector Stanley Mole doesn't mind a hard case, but things have gotten out of hand. There's a killer who escapes to a parallel universe, a 20,000 year old murder, a witness to her own death, a toddler assassin,...

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time travel

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The Defective Detective : Murder on the Links

by Adam Maxwell

Clint had woken up in some strange places in his time. Narcolepsy is like that. But even he had never woken up on a golf course next to a dead body. Until today. When one of his friends reveals himself to be...

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