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The Magician's Legacy - Peter Sharp Legal Mystery #7    by Gene Grossman
Price: $9.99 USD. 49640 words. Published by Magic Lamp Press  on October 14, 2009. .

True mystery fans know that the best kind to try and figure out is the "locked-room" variety, and with this book author Gene Grossman has created what has been called the best locked-room mystery of the century - because the locked room is an unpenetrable safe room that must be opened by a crew with blowtorches. You'll be scratching your head trying to figure this one out.
The Final Case - Peter Sharp Legal Mystery #9    by Gene Grossman
Price: $9.99 USD. 34370 words. Published by Magic Lamp Press  on October 14, 2009. .

Peter attends a cocktail party at which, Suzi and the other guests are shocked by a loud noise coming from their host’s study. When they all go to investigate, they find their host dead of a gunshot wound to his head. The gun is in his hand, and several witnesses in the hallway state that no person entered or exited the room. Suzi thinks it's murder - and wants to prove it. See if she succeeds.
The Play of Light and Shadow & Writing    by Barry Ergang
Price: $0.99 USD. 16110 words. Published on September 15, 2010. .

The crime was impossible, but it happened. The gallery was locked and under constant observation, but the valuable painting was stolen, and later the prime suspect was murdered. A private detective and a professor turned bartender team up to solve who did it and how. Can you spot and interpret the clues and solve it first? Plus an article about how the novelette came to be written.
Inspector Zhang Gets His Wish (A Free Short Story)    by Stephen Leather
Price: Free! 15070 words. Published on June 16, 2011. .

Inspector Zhang loves mysteries, but as a Detective Inspector with the Singapore Police Force he knows that mysteries are few and far between. There are relatively few crimes in the city state and those that are committed are usually solved quickly. But that all changes when Inspector Zhang is called to a top Singapore hotel where a guest has been found murdered in a locked room.
Inspector Zhang and the Dead Thai Gangster (a short story)    by Stephen Leather
Price: $0.99 USD. 17780 words. Published on July 7, 2011. .

The inscrutable Inspector Zhang of the Singapore Police Force is Bangkok-bound on a passenger jet when a passenger is found dead in the first class cabin. But who killed him, and why? It's up to Inspector Zhang and his assistant, Sergeant Lee, to solve the case.
Inspector Zhang and the Falling Woman (a short story)    by Stephen Leather
Price: $0.99 USD. 16040 words. Published on July 7, 2011. .

Inspector Zhang of the Singapore Police Force is horrified when a woman falls to her death in front of him one evening. But what seems to be a simple case of suicide soon becomes a much more complicated affair and one that will test his detective skills to the limit.
Inspector Zhang and the Disappearing Drugs (a short story)    by Stephen Leather
Price: $0.99 USD. 16720 words. Published on July 7, 2011. .

Inspector Zhang of the SIngapore Police Force is called in to investigate when a consignment of narcotics vanishes from under the eyes of a team of Drugs Squad detectives. It's a locked room mystery that puts Inspector Zhang's detective skills to the test.
The Burglar Who Smelled Smoke    by Lawrence Block
Price: $0.99 USD. 7960 words. Published on September 19, 2011. .

“The Burglar Who Smelled Smoke” features Bernie Rhodenbarr, the lighthearted and lightfingered hero of ten mystery novels. I suppose it’s inevitable that a burglar should star in a classic locked-room mystery story. Bernie’s in another as well, “The Burglar Who Dropped In On Elvis.”
The Furnace    by Timothy S. Johnston
Price: $2.99 USD. 120920 words. Published on November 12, 2011. .

As a Homicide Investigator working the solar system’s most remote outposts, Lieutenant Kyle Tanner has been involved in more investigations than any other in Security Division. His most recent case takes him to SOLEX One, a station that orbits precariously near the Sun. What he doesn’t know is that something is amplifying among the personnel ... and the very fate of the human race is at stake.