JULY 2014

This issue has some great stories. Fully one third of the stories are written by someone named Robert! And all of them different people. One of our stories comes all the way from India, which is not something new for us but always makes me smile.

A couple of our columnists are taking a much deserved summer vacation but they'll be back in the October issue.

As usual we're on the lookout for new column and feature ideas as well as stories, books to review, interviews.

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Our friends, Rosemary and Larry Mild, whose story The Perfect Poison appears in this issue, and wose stories have had a place in Mysterical-E for a long time, have a book just out:
The Misadventures of Slim O. Wittz, Soft-Boiled Detective.
A collection of eight stories. You'll have lots of fun with this book.

THE MARCO FONTANA SERIES

I'm happy to say that the next book in the Marco Fontana mystery series will be out soon.

Death on Delancey has Marco Fontana figuring out a case the police want to call murder-suicide and which Marco thinks is definitely not. He must work for someone he doesn't like very much -- and that's putting it mildly -- in order to find the Truth.

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If you're in a vampiric frame of mind, you might enjoy:

A Warning in Blood is the first of a vampire series and the first of a trilogy which opens the series. Prime Inquisitor Dru Lorand is at the heart of this series and while he was once a P.I. a long time ago, he's now moved on to a more powerful position which allows him more leeway in finding answers. But, I have no doubt that after this introduction, we'll be seeing some of his P.I. adventures.

Here's the cover and I can promise you that the back cover is every bit as interesting as the front!

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