Day Keene

World Without Women

NO MAN COULD RESIST HER. BUT COULD ANY MAN EVER HAVE HER? After years at sea, Swede Nelson just wanted to find a nice girl and settle down. But what he found instead was Corliss Mason: beautiful, sensual, irresistible – and nothing but trouble. It begins with a bar fight that lands Swede in jail. Soon he’s helping Corliss cover up a killing. But how long can they get away with murder? And why can’t Swede shake the terrible suspicion that he’s being set up?

Home is the Sailor

My Flesh is Sweet (1951) – On the run in Mexico from the accidental killing of a drunken Mexican general, Ad Conners and Eleana Hayes must somehow make it back across the border to confront a decades-old secret that could destroy them both. . . . Blinded with blood, stunned by the suddenness and fury of the attack, Connors reached out with numbed fingers, groping through the red film to find his assailant. And his fingers found flesh, bare flesh, soft flesh, flesh for a man to dream on. This woman he held was the murderer, Connors knew, and he felt a moment’s sadness. For even though his very life was at stake, Connors did not want to know that this woman had killed—once, twice, three times. She was a woman for a man to love, he thought, and then the red film washed through his head, and he knew no more . . . My Flesh is Sweet is a seventeen chapter novel first published in 1951.

My Flesh is Sweet

A Gold Medal Original

Murder on the Side

George R.R. Martin

Lester del Rey

Nalo Hopkinson

Richard Wilson

Steve Liskow

Hal Charles

Larry Tritten

Cathy Wiley

This issue features a welcome return by acquiring editor Darrell Schweitzer. He contributes a rare interview with best-selling Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin. It originally appeared in Science Fiction Review in 1976—and as Darrell says, “this is somewhere between oral history and paleontology.” Martin discusses such things as the market for fantasy fiction (not much of one...at least in 1976!) and the way he works on stories. Fascinating stuff. For this issue’s mysteries, we have an original story by Steve Liskow, who is one of the best short-story writers currently working in the field, courtesy of editor Michael Bracken. Barb Goffman has selected “The Maine Attraction” (a New England murder mystery) by Cathy Wiley. And there are classics by Day Keene and Mildred Davis. Plus, of course, a solve-it-yourself tale by Hal Charles (the writing team of Hal Sweet and Charlie Blythe). For the fantastic tales, this issue features Nalo Hopkinson’s brilliant “Greedy Choke Puppy,” selected by Cynthia Ward. Simply terrific. Larry Tritten’s SF humor piece, “The Science Fiction Book of Lists” will earn more than a few chuckles. Plus there are classic SF tales by James E. Gunn and Lester del Rey. Plus a ghost story by Richard Wilson. And a story from Weird Tales by Day Keene (which also does double-duty as a mystery!) Here’s the complete lineup: Non-Fiction Speaking with George R.R. Martin, an interview by Darrell Schweitzer [interview] “The Science Fiction Book of Lists,” by Larry Tritten [non-fact article, humor] Mysteries / Suspense / Adventure “The Bridesmaid’s Tale” by Steve Liskow. [short story] “A Robber’s Craft” by Hal Charles [solve-it-yourself mystery] The Suicide Hours, by Mildred Davis [novel] “The Maine Attraction” by Cathy Wiley [short story] “Dead Man’s Shoes,” by Day Keene [short story] Science Fiction & Fantasy “The Science Fiction Book of Lists,” by Larry Tritten [non-fact article, humor] “Dead Man’s Shoes,” by Day Keene [short story] “Greedy Choke Puppy,” by Nalo Hopkinson [short story] “Stilled Patter,” by James E. Gunn [short story] “See Me Safely Home,” by Richard Wilson [short story] “Kindness,” by Lester del Rey [short story]

Black Cat Weekly #27

When Jim Charters drank, he talked too much. He claimed he could get Pearl Mantinover out of the death house because he could prove she was innocent. Shooting off his mouth this time led Jim into the tightest spot of his life . . . The next morning he woke up with $10,000 in his hand and voluptuously naked Lou Tarrent in his bed. Jim was on a chase that kept him running for his life, for Lou was all woman and wouldn’t take no for an answer!

Wake Up to Murder

NO MAN COULD RESIST HER. BUT COULD ANY MAN EVER HAVE HER? After years at sea, Swede Nelson just wanted to find a nice girl and settle down. What he found was Corliss Mason: sensual, irresistible - and deadly. Soon Swede's helping Corliss cover up a killing, but how long can they get away with murder? And why -even when he's in her arms - can't he shake the feeling that he's being set up?

Alive, she was worth a fortune . . . dead, she was a racketeer’s life insurance! Mona Ambler sat in the death house with a secret that not even a decent guy like Mike Duval could extract. Just home from Korea, Mike had to go about saving the gal the hard way. Maybe she really had shot and killed a jewelry salesman, maybe she had been the no-good thieving B-girl the papers had reported, but just the same she had also been the beloved wife of Mike’s only brother. The odds were a hundred-to-one that Mona would go to the chair without talking. But Mike Duval was willing to gamble against these odds. The thing he didn’t realize was that the boss of the city rackets was betting against him with every gunman, chiseler, and grafter on his side. Because Mona knew something that could blast the city wide open!

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