The Mystery Company


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Crum Creek Press/The Mystery Company is an independent publishing company owned and operated by Jim Huang. In this decade, our titles have won two Agatha Awards, three Anthony Awards, one Benjamin Franklin Award and two Macavity Awards. Our books have also been nominated for the Dilys and the Shamus Awards, and one more Agatha and Macavity.

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Deadstick    by Terence Faherty
Price: $5.99 USD. 62640 words. Published by The Mystery Company  on November 19, 2011. .

Owen Keane, failed seminarian, once hoped to find cosmic answers in human mysteries, but he's traded that quest for a 9-to-5 job at a New York law firm and a quiet life. Quiet, that is, until a cryptic request for information on an accident that took the lives of a playboy aviator and his fiancée cracks the solid earth beneath Keane’s feet and pitches him once again into darkness and doubt.
Kill Me Again    by Terence Faherty
Price: $3.99 USD. 97350 words. Published by The Mystery Company  on August 10, 2010. .

How do you top your best work? In Hollywood, you make a sequel. That's the plan in 1947 when filming begins on a follow-up to the wartime romance Passage to Lisbon. The screenwriter is accused of being a Communist. Enter Scott Elliott, a former actor and soldier who is struggling to find a place in a changing Hollywood. To save the movie, Elliott must untangle a tale of murder, sin and redemption.


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