Laws change from culture to culture, decade to decade. Strange laws make criminals of ordinary citizens. Like the Massachusetts woman whose brother asks her for help, slave hunters at his heels. Or the Chinese immigrant who finds himself in the middle of a crooked game of Fan Tan. Or the Native American detective searching New York’s Stonewall Bar for a ratfink on the night of a world-changing riot. These stories and more prove that once again, Fiction River’s crime volumes have, in the words of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, high quality throughout.
Meeting the exceptional quality of previous anthologies, this collection contains excellent past crimes short stories. -Futures Mystery Anthology Magazine on Fiction River: Past Crime Table of Contents Stolen in Passing by Dory Crowe Choices by Laura Ware The Monster in Our Midst by Kris Nelscott The Raiders by Cat Rambo The Piper’s Plot by Anthea Lawson She Walks in Beauty by Brenda Carre The Priest Hunter by Patrick O'Sullivan The Horns of Hathor by Richard Quarry Impressions by Lisa Silverthorne An Education for Thursday by Dean Wesley Smith New World Gambles by Leah Cutter The Bank Teller by Jamie McNabb The Curious Case of the Ha'Penny Detective by Lee Allred Blood and Lightning on the Newport Highway by Elizabeth Castle Deathmobile by Michele Lang The Stonewall Rat by JC Andrijeski