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A Scandal in Bohemia (Annotated)    by Arthur Conan Doyle
Price: $0.99 USD. 10560 words. Language: English. Published by Gray Cadence Publishing House  on May 14, 2013. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Short Stories.

When Dr. Watson stops by 221B Baker Street one evening, he finds his friend Sherlock Holmes awaiting a mysterious visitor. Soon they are engaged in another case together and must confront the beautiful and cunning Irene Adler, a woman whom Sherlock Holmes will remember above all others. This edition of "A Scandal in Bohemia" includes footnotes and a biographical essay on Arthur Conan Doyle.
Katie and the Golden Egg Mystery    by P. Katherine Barkley
Price: $0.99 USD. 24350 words. Language: English. Published on May 14, 2013. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths.

It's Christmastime in the Carter household, and Katie has found the perfect gift for her mother. Unfortunately, someone else has found it too - in her shopping bag! When the golden egg goes missing, Katie must find it again before Christmas Eve. Will she be able to track down the thief and learn what's so unique about this particular gift?
The Lying Little Rascals    by Colin Andrews
Price: $1.99 USD. 7300 words. Language: English. Published on May 13, 2013. Fiction » Children’s books » Fiction.

The Lying Little Rascals are four siblings who are always up to no good. They annoy, tease and fight with each other and seldom get along. When major events happen in the house, no one will own up to it and so the parents decide to let each sit down around the table and write, in their own words, what happened. It's a tricky task, but the truth must come out and someone will be punished.
Intrigue au Charleston    by Bruno Robert des Douets
Price: $0.99 USD. 2350 words. Language: French. Published on May 11, 2013. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Short Stories.

Une salle de restaurant, des convives, un caniche... et c'est le début d'une enquête. Digne d'Agatha Christie !
Katie and the Great Twin Mix-Up    by P. Katherine Barkley
Price: $0.99 USD. 24900 words. Language: English. Published on May 11, 2013. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Short Stories.

A long-lost friend returns to the Carter house for a visit, but something strange is afoot. Peter and his twin brother Jack seem to be mixed up in a mystery. When one of Katie's own family members gets mistakenly pulled into the danger, it becomes personal, and she takes a trip south to straighten things out. Can she unmix the mix-up? Find out in the fifth Katie Carter mystery story!
Visitors    by Steve Wilson
Price: Free! 2830 words. Language: English. Published on May 11, 2013. Fiction » Science fiction » General.

(5.00 from 1 review)
Geoff Rankin, a returned serviceman, just wants to get away for a quiet weekend up in the tablelands. When he encounters what appear to be visitors from another planet, he deals with them the only way he knows…violently.
Dead Money    by Ken Hattaway
Price: Free! 16720 words. Language: English. Published on May 10, 2013. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Short Stories.

Leo Denison is tired of scratching out a living. After making off with a quarter million dollars from a local Las Vegas casino, the software engineer is ready to leave the country and start over in style. He's not fully prepared, though, for what happens next when a group of feisty seniors take umbrage at his brazen theft and take matters into their own hands to see justice done.
Flitting Away    by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $2.99 USD. 5880 words. Language: English. Published by WMG Publishing  on May 10, 2013. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Short Stories.

When a vicious attacker leaves Nicole Walker for dead, she fights against the odds to survive. And to succeed, she must remember—the attack, the attacker, even her own desire to live. Her mind wants to flit away and escape the horrors of the attack. Flitting away means death. But remembering might mean an even worse fate.
Katie and the Mystery of the Witch's Curse    by P. Katherine Barkley
Price: $0.99 USD. 25430 words. Language: English. Published on May 9, 2013. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths.

Katie and her brother and sisters head to the nearby town of Salem to research a school history paper and find themselves tangled up in the mystery of an ancient curse. The locals are certain that they are being haunted by the ghost of a long-dead witch. Can Katie solve the mystery and prove that there are no such things as ghosts?
Nothing Man    by Marc Lowe
Price: $0.99 USD. 23680 words. Language: English. Published on May 8, 2013. Fiction » Literary collections » American / General.

Nothing Man is the follow-up to Marc Lowe's collection, "Sui Generis" and Other Fictions (2010, ISMs Press). "Lowe’s stories hack body and mind apart and sometimes put them back together in a new way. They disrupt comfortable logic and expectation with a Surrealist-infused Gothic prose tinged with hints of Borges and Poe." Rob Stephenson, author of Passes Through