Betty Webb

Nancy Baker Jacobs

Terence Faherty

Jonathan Harrington

Desperate Journeys by Betty Webb\Terence Faherty\Nancy Baker Jacobs\Jonathan Harrington released on Apr 23, 2004 is available now for purchase.

Desperate Journeys

Brendan DuBois

Robert J. Randisi

Donna Andrews

Joseph S. Walker

Barb Goffman

Sandra Murphy

Frankie Y. Bailey

Robert Lopresti

Marilyn Todd

Lesley A. Diehl

Joseph Goodrich

Night at the Opera, A Day at the Races, Duck Soup, Animal Crackers…over the two decades between 1929’s The Cocoanuts and 1949’s Love Happy, the Marx Brothers—Groucho, Harpo, Chico, and sometimes Zeppo—entertained movie-goers around the world with their madcap antics, rapid-fire dialogue, and prowess on the piano, the harp, and in song. Now, a Who’s Who of award-winning crime writers pays homage to the Marxes in fourteen short stories, each inspired by one of the brothers’ thirteen studio films. (Wait a second: fourteen stories inspired by thirteen films? How does that add up? You'll find the answer to that question…and so much more!...inside the covers of this book.) The authors? Donna Andrews, Frankie Y. Bailey, Jeff Cohen, Lesley A. Diehl, Brendan DuBois, Terence Faherty, Barb Goffman, Joseph Goodrich, Robert Lopresti, Sandra Murphy, Robert J. Randisi, Marilyn Todd, Joseph S. Walker, and editor Josh Pachter, who is a recent recipient of the Short Mystery Fiction Society’s Golden Derringer Award for Lifetime Achievement and the editor of two previous “inspired by” anthologies from Untreed Reads, The Beat of Black Wings: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Joni Mitchell and Only the Good Die Young: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Billy Joel. To paraphrase Groucho: Outside of a dog, this book will be your best friend. (Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.)

Crime Fiction Inspired by the Films of the Marx Brothers

Monkey Business

Wendi W. Lee

Bill Crider

Aileen Schumacher

Four top mystery authors present four new tales of intrigue and murder set during the holiday season. Favorite characters that are featured are Terence Faherty's metaphysical sleuth Owen Keane, Alieen Schumacher's New Mexico engineer Tory Travers, Wendi Lee's Boston P.I. Angela Matelli, and Bill Crider's Texas sheriff Dan Rhodes.

Murder, Mayhem and Mistletoe

Terence Faherty

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