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Barbotte    by John McFetridge
Price: Free! 4320 words. Published on May 20, 2010. .

Montreal 1946. Jackie Robinson is playing for the Royals, the jazz clubs are hopping and the backrooms are full of people losing money at the barbotte tables. Nat Lawson is home from the war working for the phone company and moonlighting running 'silent' lines for bookies when Leah Aidelbaum asks him to play private eye.
Hold The Anchovies    by Harris Tobias
Price: $0.99 USD. 23530 words. Published on November 21, 2011. .

Retired New York City homicide detective, Vinny DeMarco joins his old partner, Bluto, in a pizza restaurant in Reno, NV. The oldest pizza delivery man in America gets more than he bargained for when he delivers a pizza to the mysterious Scotsman, one of Reno's big shot gangsters. What follows is a tale of action, murder and revenge as hot and spicy as a pepperoni pizza.
As the Sun turns Black    by Barry Crowther
Price: $3.99 USD. 79040 words. Published on February 22, 2012. .

From the very first page it appears that something is very rotten in the City of Manchester. Two young girls are missing – then one is found dead, covered in blood and swan-feathers. The murdered child turns out to be the daughter of Matt Spears’ friend, Eddie, who appeals to him to find the killer. Matt refuses to get involved – he’s having enough trouble trying to s