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Spinetingler Magazine
Skeleton Hill by Peter Lovesey
Two murders confront Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond in this, the tenth in the mystery series featuring the irascible Bath policeman. Each of the murders apparently...
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The Lineup
Deadline Day
Today is the deadline for unsolicited submissions to The Lineup 4. We will reopen to invited submissions only from September 1 through October 31, 2010.
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Rough Edges
Stolen - Jordan Gray
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Vintage Hardboiled Reads
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Independent Crime
Review of Johnny Porno
In the Internet age, it's hard to imagine (at least for those of us of a certain age), that viewing pornography was once a collective...
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Central Crime Zone
Labyrinth, Kat Richardson - 9780451463364
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The Big Thrill
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Crimespree Cinema
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A Writer's Life
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The Home Front
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Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine
Coming Soon
by Bill Crider
117 minutes ago

pattinase
BEAT TO A PULP, ROUND ONE
Edited by the incomparable David Cranmer and Elaine Ash. Wow. This guy wasn't in my story and I hope I don't meet him tonight in...
by pattinase (abbott)
2 hours ago

The Home Front
Fun with typos
We all make typos on Facebook, and I've spotted some doozies lately:--A business with computer problems asked FB friends to "please bare with us."--One friend...
by STEVE BREWER
2 hours ago

Women of Mystery
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by Terrie Farley Moran
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Spinetingler Magazine
Skeleton Hill by Peter Lovesey
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by Theodore Feit
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Independent Crime
Review of Johnny Porno
In the Internet age, it's hard to imagine (at least for those of us of a certain age), that viewing pornography was once a collective...
by Nathan Cain
2 hours ago

New Improved Gorman
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