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Lord Under London
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Perfidious Albion
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The Case of Dancing Kali
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The French Medium
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The Dread Men and Other Cases of Nat Frayne
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The Dread Men
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Further Adventures of Odysseus by
Man Of Many Turnings
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Odysseus and the Eye of Odin
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The Evolved by
The Evolved
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The Big Empty
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Point Of No Return
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The Outcasts
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Holobrain
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Grinder
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Soldier of Discontent and Other Stories by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 57,370. Language: English. Originally Published: April 28, 2024 by Devray Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Mystery, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Historical, Fiction » Historical » General
A scintillating, action-packed anthology of crime throughout history. Soldier of Discontent When the mayor of a turn-of-the-century logging town investigates an arson blamed on an IWW agitator, she risks becoming a target herself as she uncovers a desperate scheme of seduction, revenge, and murder. The Horns of Hathor The Pharaoh Akhenaten has just decreed that in place of Hathor, Isis, and all...
Lord Under London And Otther Cases of Nat Frayne by
Series: a Nat Frayne mystery, Book 8. Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 69,030. Language: English. Originally Published: March 30, 2024 by Richard Quarry. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Mystery, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Historical, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Hard-Boiled, Fiction » Mystery & detective » International crime
Lord Under London When a methane explosion in the London sewers spews up a much-mangled body, Victorian-era Detective Inspector Nat Frayne finds an ancient Hunter watch pointing to the mysterious disappearance of an aristocrat from an age before the tunnels even existed. As he investigates further a string of fresh corpses start to turn up. Forced to descend back into the depths, Frayne must...
The Dread Men and Other Cases of Nat Frayne by
Series: a Nat Frayne mystery, Book 1. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 71,010. Language: English. Originally Published: February 24, 2024 by Richard Quarry. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Mystery, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Historical, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Hard-Boiled, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Crime
Victorian-era detective Nat Frayne battles crime on the mean streets of London.
No Boobs, No Kardashians by
Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 6,740. Language: English. Originally Published: January 28, 2024 by Richard Quarry. Categories: Fiction, Fiction » Humor & comedy » Satire, Fiction » Humor & comedy » Black comedy
Desperate to grab a few headlines to bolster her fading career, starlet Sindee Sands schemes to marry off her reality-challenged twelve-year-old daughter to similarly aged gangsta rapper Bull Fido in a TV spectacular. The host, reality show 'Tween Bride, celebrates "the new marriage." Hey, if it moves product, how wrong can it be? Only the little disaster demands a Porsche and a boob job before...
The Blue Ibis by
Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 21,960. Language: English. Originally Published: January 28, 2024 by Devray Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Hard-Boiled, Fiction » Mystery & detective » International crime
The Blue Ibis, a creation of the Egyptian god Thoth, promises heaven to whoever who can read the inscription within. Two agents, one from the Justice Department and one from the Egyptian Council of Antiquities, bicker while trying to track down the mysterious statue. But an old-money sybarite and a fast-talking tech wunderkind also seek the blue bird. And with heaven at stake, rules don't...
Tea Party by
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 8,180. Language: English. Originally Published: December 29, 2023 by Devray Publishing. Categories: Fiction, Fiction » Urban, Fiction » Literature » Literary
When a shy young worker unexpectedly gets invited for drinks and girl talk by her department head, she ends up learning a lot more about her boss's life and loves than she really wants to know. And through the process, about her own.
String Theory by
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 10,830. Language: English. Originally Published: October 28, 2023 by Devray Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Science fiction » High tech, Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera
An revolutionary drive based on multi-dimensional String Theory just drove the starship Chaffinch straight into a Dimensional Paradox. Will the ship escape before the next Big Bang? All depends upon a jazz musician aboard coaxing the other-worldly sounds of the Paradox into something comprehensible to the human mind and human machinery. Unless, of course, he goes mad first.
Miss Kittenses by
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 5,200. Language: English. Originally Published: September 28, 2023 by Richard Quarry. Categories: Fiction, Fiction » Urban, Fiction » Literature » Literary, Fiction » Humor & comedy » General
He's a 180K a year techie hoping to get laid. She's a hospice nurse coming off a very hard day. When they meet over dinner, the question may come down to her pink cat-face watch, Miss Kittenses.
Board Games by
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 5,990. Language: English. Originally Published: August 18, 2023 by Richard Quarry. Categories: Fiction, Fiction » Urban, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Crime
Hanging drywall does not call to the socially well-adjusted. But when a simmering feud between partners escalates into a duel, their lives hang on the width of a nail.
Questing Song by
Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 18,700. Language: English. Originally Published: July 19, 2023 by Richard Quarry. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author, Fiction » Urban, Fiction » Literature » Literary, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Psychological
Just how far will you let someone sink while climbing on their shoulders?
Star Mole by
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 5,340. Language: English. Originally Published: June 24, 2023 by Devray Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera, Fiction » Humor & comedy » Satire
When researchers send Gerald the star mole into space to hunt for Wormholes, they forget to ask what may lie on the other side.
The Treasure of the Endless Scrub by
Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 15,730. Language: English. Originally Published: May 14, 2023 by Richard Quarry. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » General, Fiction » Fantasy » Historical, Fiction » Fantasy » Paranormal
A disreputable pair of Zen monks must exorcise the "hungry ghosts" of dead slaves from a salt mine.
Clearance Sale by
Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 11,570. Language: English. Originally Published: April 11, 2023 by Richard Quarry. Categories: Fiction, Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Science fiction » Utopias & dystopias
When metal starts to melt, and a plastic bottle of soda becomes the ultimate NFT, social norms gang aft aglay.
Soldier of Discontent by
Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 11,900. Language: English. Originally Published: March 26, 2023 by Richard Quarry. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Historical, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Hard-Boiled, Fiction » Historical » General, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Crime, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Amateur sleuth
A lumberyard arson and murder blamed on a labor agitator turns out to have deeper roots.
The French Fries of Freedom by
Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 6,070. Language: English. Originally Published: March 9, 2023 by Richard Quarry. Categories: Fiction, Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Humor & comedy » Black comedy, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Political
The President likes his french fries. He also likes watching things blow up. He's not so sure, though, he likes watching them blown up by a missile guided by three crows pecking at a screen. I mean, what's the use of having the biggest, most macho button in the world if when you press it someone hollers "away all crows"? But once he understands some of the response-reward principles, he turns...
Beer Garden by
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 4,460. Language: English. Originally Published: February 12, 2023 by Richard Quarry. Categories: Fiction, Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author, Fiction » Literature » Literary, Fiction » Historical » General
In a 1930 Germany plagued by hunger and street-fighting, an idealistic young writer argues his vision of the future with a front soldier from the Great War who can't escape the past.
The French Medium by
Series: a Nat Frayne mystery. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 24,130. Language: English. Originally Published: February 19, 2022 by Richard Quarry. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Historical, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Hard-Boiled, Fiction » Mystery & detective » International crime
In Victorian London the French Mesmerist Madame Davignon claims to unite the bereaved with the spirits of their loved ones. A simple enough swindle. To start. But when the game mounts first to blackmail, then murder, Detective Inspector Nat Frayne poses as a client, hoping to entrap the medium. Instead, the hunter becomes the hunted when she unites him with the spirit of his lost wife. Illusion...
All You Ever Have To Do by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 122,400. Language: English. Originally Published: February 24, 2022 by Richard Quarry. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Historical, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Crime
"I made San Francisco for the Summer of Love and Saigon for the Tet Offensive. I'm not that easily impressed any more." But when ex-MP Lonnie Davis, fresh back from two tours in Vietnam, agrees to track down missing counter-culture acid queen Mara Isaacs, the two find themselves pursued by police, bikers, bounty hunters, attack dogs, and a very pissed-off CEO who believes Mara murdered his son...
Devolution Day by
Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 14,750. Language: English. Originally Published: December 4, 2022 by Richard Quarry. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Humor & comedy » Black comedy
Never eat your sister. Good advice, but sometimes hard to follow as a storm of devolution sweeps down on the Seattle library, transforming the patrons into saber-tooth tigers, tyrannosaurs, twelve-foot pink centipedes, and all manner of exotic, extinct, and eviscerating creatures. Few humans escape these horrific makeovers, and those who do find their celebrated cerebellums toppled from their...
Blue Dread by
Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 202,350. Language: English. Originally Published: April 13, 2022 by Richard Quarry. Categories: Fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Historical » General, Fiction » Adventure » Sea adventures, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Family sagas
Do you thrill to tales of pirate treasure, ringing cutlasses, broadsides cutting through the salt breeze, and do-or-die romance? Come aboard aboard HMS Cygnet as she blazes a bloody course into the Golden Age of Piracy. Desperate to escape the vengeance of London's notorious Hellfire Club, high society courtesan Meg Eaton marries Elias Bramwell, bosun aboard a British frigate. The rough seaman...
Flameout by
Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 9,860. Language: English. Originally Published: May 1, 2022 by Richard Quarry. Categories: Fiction, Fiction » Science fiction » Utopias & dystopias, Fiction » Humor & comedy » Satire, Fiction » Humor & comedy » Black comedy
In mid-21st century America, you're either on one side of the desk or the other. The Social Services Department desk, that is. Helping others to help themselves. Like beleaguered caseworker Cary Gilford tells a shifty client whining around about how his family's about to get thrown onto the street without a rent increase: help yourself, Mr. Ruggero. Next, please. What, does Mr. Ruggero really...
Beer Run by
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 6,850. Language: English. Originally Published: February 21, 2022 by Richard Quarry. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General
Utah? Yeah, Utah. In the era of Mickey Mouse ears, black and white TV, and a really snazzy pink '57 Imperial. Not a real promising place to sell beer, seeing as how the whole state is dry. But that's the task facing the crew of the tramp time-freighter Karen N, stranded with a cargo of 10th-century Frisian mead they hoped to sell as a trendy microbrew in 2013 Seattle. And if they can't unload...
Man Of Many Turnings by
Series: Further Adventures of Odysseus. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 111,980. Language: English. Originally Published: March 29, 2022 by Richard Quarry. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » General, Fiction » Fantasy » Epic, Fiction » Fantasy » Historical
When the Egyptian goddess Hathor geeks out and turns into a flying, fire-breathing lion determined to eat the world alive, Isis and Thoth decide that only the Greek hero Odysseus possesses the cunning to outwit her. So they send a time-storm around to collect him. They even throw in a balloon ship to update his transportation. Which does however contain one trifling caveat: the crew consists of...
Grinder by
Series: The Evolved, Book 6. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 60,770. Language: English. Originally Published: June 18, 2022 by Richard Quarry. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Science fiction » High tech, Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera, Fiction » Science fiction » Military
Sahan Kotori died calling out Arvada Sattar's name as he fell into the sun at Harrar's Reach. Or did he? Because after a long dim time, awareness comes to … something. Something with no body and no name. No eyes, no ears, no breath. Only a great black void. Then dreams of Arvada begin spewing out of the darkness. Searing visions of her betraying him time and again. Betraying him in combat...
The Evolved by
Series: The Evolved. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 77,100. Language: English. Originally Published: April 23, 2022 by Richard Quarry. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera, Fiction » Science fiction » Military
Forced to flee Earth two centuries before, the people calling themselves the Evolved come roaring back on a mission of conquest and revenge. Now in the form of a Group Mind, they quickly scatter the navies of Earth and its allies. Two soldiers of the Peregrine Alliance strike back. Fast Cruiser Captain Arvada Sattar, young and rebellious, scorns demands from both the Evolved and her own Naval...
And Make Not Dreams Your Master by
Series: a Nat Frayne mystery, Book 5. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 36,420. Language: English. Originally Published: August 27, 2022 by Richard Quarry. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Historical, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Hard-Boiled, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Crime
Why would a supposedly upright missionary die of an overdose of opium in a respectable Mission home? From upper-crust Mayfair parlors to opium dens down on the Limehouse docks, gaslight-era detective Nat Frayne investigates a tangled web of intrigue suggesting that China's bloody Teiping Rebellion has spread to London. Join him for a jaunt through murder, kidnapping, corruption and drug...
The Outcasts by
Series: The Evolved, Book 3. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 56,840. Language: English. Originally Published: March 13, 2022 by Richard Quarry. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera, Fiction » Science fiction » Military
When Captain Brenda Valkonen leads the first joint Earth-Peregrine Alliance into remote space to examine the wreck of an alien vessel, she does not know the fate of humanity may hang in the balance. Though only several generations removed from Earth, the Peregrines make much more use of brain implants adapted from animals to broaden their range of sensory inputs. These implants create...
The Case of Dancing Kali by
Series: a Nat Frayne mystery. Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 20,740. Language: English. Originally Published: June 3, 2020 by Devray Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Traditional British, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Historical, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Hard-Boiled, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Crime
As a spate of ritual murder/mutilations spreads across the city, London fears an invasion of Thuggee assassins. Detective Inspector Nathaniel Frayne, however, digs in his heels against tromping around beating confessions out of Hindus the way the newspapers and his superiors demand. Instead Frayne employs his customary shady methods to investigate an exotic brothel so exclusive its members form...
Holobrain by
Series: The Evolved, Book 5. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 61,330. Language: English. Originally Published: May 23, 2022 by Richard Quarry. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera, Fiction » Science fiction » Military
As the Evolved invaders conquer more and more of Peregrine space, Arvada Sattar and Sahan Kotori go on fighting their own war in defiance of Naval Command. While Arvada develops tactics for ambushing the enemy from deeper in the sun than anyone thought a starship could survive, Sahan carries on his hazardous mental penetrations of the enemy holobrain. When the Viveca becomes trapped inside a...
The God Machine by
Series: The Evolved, Book 7. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 71,510. Language: English. Originally Published: July 13, 2022 by Richard Quarry. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera, Fiction » Science fiction » Military
His brain resurrected by the Evolved, weaponized against Arvada Sattar, and fitted with a Grinder body, Sahan Kotori now commands the Grinder forces. Haunted by the sound of her laughter as she betrayed him, he vows to cast her down into the Terror Barrier, and transform that laugh into one eternal scream. Through space battles and hand-to-hand combat amid colonies and boarded ships, Arvada...
What Rough Beast by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 166,820. Language: English. Originally Published: May 8, 2022 by Richard Quarry. Categories: Fiction » Horror, Fiction » Fantasy » Historical, Fiction » Horror » Occult, Fiction » Historical » General, Fiction » Fantasy » Dark
Frank Barton lives life on the run. Many lives. Ever since the Civil War, when instead of dying from his wounds, he turned into a snake crawling across the battlefield, absorbing life from others. For years Frank struggles against the killer serpent inside him. Sometimes, for a while, he wins. Then the bad dreams return, people die … and he runs from another attempt to build a life. Now in 1912...
Mary's Hell by
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 10,610. Language: English. Originally Published: October 8, 2022 by Richard Quarry. Categories: Fiction, Fiction » Fantasy » Paranormal, Fiction » Horror » Occult
Roy Snyder wants to apologize. Now that he's finally clean and sober, he wants to tell everyone he ever harmed while on the sauce just how sorry he is. And this time he really means it. He wants especially to apologize to his long-suffering wife for all those times he promised he'd go straight, while keeping his fingers crossed behind his back. He wants most of all to apologize for all the lies...
Geneslide by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 109,400. Language: English. Originally Published: March 23, 2022 by Richard Quarry. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Humor & comedy » Black comedy
You don't miss your genes till they turn prehistoric. To save the world from nuclear holocaust, the Timekeeper must start evolution running backward. And man, is he pissed. So pissed, he's decided to backdate humans right out of existence. As people morph in and and out of prehistoric animals, a ragtag band led by Galloping Ariadne and Philip the Assault Otter careens through time fighting off...
The Sound of Snowfall by
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 7,560. Language: English. Originally Published: November 5, 2022 by Richard Quarry. Categories: Fiction, Fiction » Literature » Literary, Fiction » Coming of age
Stuck in Juvenile Corrections, a teenage girl tries to preserve her last memory of beauty by sharing it with a troubled youth who got himself punched in the face just for a chance to see her in the Infirmary.
The Homecoming of Lucian Wren by
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 11,780. Language: English. Originally Published: October 5, 2022 by Richard Quarry. Categories: Fiction, Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Humor & comedy » Satire, Fiction » Humor & comedy » Black comedy
Today the Machines deliver the new Benjamin. But for Lucian Wren, a beleaguered scriptwriter in a world ruled by cradle-to-grave teleprompters, that's no cause for celebration. For the two-year-old they've cast for the "reality" show featuring himself and his overstuffed Central Casting wife is a giant pumpkin-headed monster a couple of hatchets past Lizzie Borden. And in this Brave New World...
The Fires of Beltane by
Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 10,740. Language: English. Originally Published: November 7, 2022 by Richard Quarry. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Science fiction » Utopias & dystopias
In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, Gildas Wainwright revives an ancient religion in order to give the people of an isolated town the faith they need to carry on. But the thing about ancient religions, they tend to return to their roots.
The Big Empty by
Series: The Evolved, Book 1. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 77,760. Language: English. Originally Published: January 15, 2022 by Richard Quarry. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Science fiction » High tech, Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera
Beck Egan, a veteran Rigger in the colony at Lagrange 5, narrowly escapes death in an accident that looks suspiciously like sabotage. But sabotage by who? On one side an Earth government increasingly under the control of right-wing fanatics claims the Riggers are using animal implants to create a Godless "super-race." Now Earth threatens to come up and remove the implants by force. Opposing...
Point Of No Return by
Series: The Evolved, Book 2. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 51,860. Language: English. Originally Published: February 17, 2022 by Devray Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Science fiction » High tech, Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera
As a generation ship way past its pull date creaks and groans toward the nearest star system that might hold out a chance for survival, the scientifically literate Riggers turn to brain enhancements in a desperate attempt to discover new technologies. But a colony of evangelical Christians fear the approach of a "Point Of No Return" beyond which God's dominion ends, condemning their souls to...
Odysseus and the Eye of Odin by
Series: Further Adventures of Odysseus, Book 2. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 129,680. Language: English. Originally Published: April 6, 2022 by Richard Quarry. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » General
(Previously published as Man of Pain by Richard Quarry) The Golden Apples that keep Odin, Thor, and the other Norse gods immortal — and sane — have been stolen by Gullveig the Gold-Witch. But the Aesir are too weirded to care; they're getting their jollies chasing after an enchanted treasure guarded by the poison-spouting dragon Fafnir. So while the gods go ga-ga Gullveig and the evil Loki form...
The Horns Of Hathor by
Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 16,020. Language: English. Originally Published: April 13, 2022 by Richard Quarry. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Historical, Fiction » Humor & comedy » General, Fiction » Historical » General
Pharaoh Akhenaten has just decreed that in place of Isis, Hathor, Thoth, and all the other traditional gods of Egypt, only one true divinity shall now exist — himself. And so he directs Chenzira the Scribe to Thebes, the capital of the priesthood, to cancel the largest religious celebration of the year, one which attracts hundreds of thousands of worshippers, all believing that next year's...
Midnight Choir by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 143,570. Language: English. Originally Published: March 6, 2022 by Richard Quarry. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Historical, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Hard-Boiled
Seattle, 1907. "The wickedest city in America." — McClure's Magazine. Honey Jack Gallagher serves as brass-knuckled enforcer for a family of tough Irish cops who maintain law and order in Seattle's wild "Restricted District" — for a price. Adrienne Cody fled her lumber-town upbringing in search of freedom. Which she finds, in gritty form, as an idealistic young visiting nurse. These two wholly...
Absent From Felicity by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 119,740. Language: English. Originally Published: October 5, 2022 by Richard Quarry. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Science fiction » Military
John Gottschalk did not expect to be the sole survivor of a rescue mission to a habitat swallowed up a black hole years before. He did not expect to find the survivors of the banged-up colony enslaved by Ophelian mercenaries, the biggest, nastiest, and most studiously sociopathic soldiers in the galaxy. He did not expect to serve as a ping-pong ball in the Ophelians' endless enactments of their...
Perfidious Albion by
Series: a Nat Frayne mystery. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 14,680. Language: English. Originally Published: September 20, 2022 by Richard Quarry. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Historical, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Hard-Boiled, Fiction » Mystery & detective » International crime
Dismissed from the London police, Nat Frayne finds himself unexpectedly recruited by the Foreign Office to act as bodyguard for an aging diplomat. The mission: to deliver a supposedly vital letter to the head of the Egyptian government. But Frayne finds the mission growing right dodgy when he recognizes the man in charge as an old and bitter enemy. Soon cloak and dagger vie in a bloody and...
Lord Under London by
Series: a Nat Frayne mystery. Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 19,340. Language: English. Originally Published: June 2, 2020 by Devray Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Traditional British, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Historical, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Hard-Boiled, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Crime
When a methane explosion in the London sewers spews forth a much-mangled body, Detective Inspector Nat Frayne finds an ancient Hunter watch still tangled in the bones. It identifies the corpse as an aristocrat who disappeared in mysterious circumstances nearly a century ago. Or does it? The find sets off a spectacular round of litigation between branches of the family, to the delight of the...
The Dread Men by
Series: a Nat Frayne mystery, Book 4. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 28,180. Language: English. Originally Published: March 4, 2022 by Richard Quarry. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Historical, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Hard-Boiled
Detective-Inspector Nat Frayne of the London Metropolitan Police has seen numerous hanging victims, both official and self-staged. But never one so well-dressed, right down to the topper tilted slightly askew by the noose. In fact the victim's flash attire mark him as one of the Swell Mob, London's criminal elite. And the marks of brass knuckles on his face mark this as murder. But who in...

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