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sections. Four different types of mystery and crime stories.
Whether it’s the brilliant Boston detective Julius Katz, or
his sister Julia, the first three stories in the KATZ section are traditional
mysteries. A crime has been committed, the potential suspects are questioned,
and the guilty party is exposed. While the fourth story in the KATZ section, Archie’s Been Stolen!, has the same
style, tone and humor as all the other Julius Katz and Archie stories, it’s a
caper. There’s no mystery to solve, only a heist of sorts to commit.
The three stories in the BRICK section are crime thrillers
featuring investigator Morris Brick, his bull terrier Parker, and the rest of
the MBI team. These stories and the five Morris Brick novels that I wrote under
the Jacob Stone pseudonym for Kensington have similar humor and style, are
fast-paced, and are populated by hardened criminals and mobsters. Where they
differ is the novels have very bad people committing horrific acts while the
stories are lighter. While there’s plenty of danger in these stories,
ultimately no one gets badly hurt.
The two stories in the STONE section features Hell’s only
operating private eye, Mike Stone, from my novel Everybody Lies in Hell. Even
with the unique setting and the fantastic elements, such as souls being
tormented by demons and demonic racing horses that bite the heads off of
jockeys, these are hardboiled PI stories. These stories are about stripping
away the self-deceptions and lies we tell ourselves to expose the ugly truths
underneath, and there’s not much more hardboiled than that!
So given that these are all mystery and crime stories, why
the title Detectives and Spies? While
all the stories have either detectives or spies acting as detectives, three of
the stories are a merging of the mystery and spy genres.
Kindle and paperback editions of Detective and Spies will be available in one week!
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