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A WOMAN POSSESSED May is crazy in love with Dan Ferrel. So in love that she risks her life and freedom to spring him from the work gang. But Dan's only thoughts are for Vera. He just wants to feel his hands around her pretty throat. Just once. Because Dan's a lifer. Accused of shooting a man in cold blood, only Dan knows that the killer was hired by Vera to settle the score between them. Now he's traveling the backroads with May, trying to a...

MURDER NEEDS A NAME The radio show has ended for the day, and the actors and writers are out for dinner, including their sponsor, Abner Ridenour. After the dinner breaks up, Jane and Abner announce their intention of eloping, so Catherine offers them her cottage for their honeymoon. Which doesn't sit well with Daudette, who still holds a torch for Abner. Or young John Severence, their announcer, who feels the same way about Jane. That night,...

OFF DUTY Frank Chase used to be a Boston cop. Now he's married to his former partner's ex-wife, Ida, selling real estate in Andover. But Chase has a secret. He funded his new life by hijacking a drug deal before leaving the force. What he doesn't know is that his partner, Rupert Goetz, set the whole scheme up. Then a body shows up on Chase's lawn. And the secrets begin to come out. Chase has got a hitman on his tail, and Goetz has got the...

ANY MAN'S GIRL All the men agree that it was a damn shame that Lucinda Perky was strangled like that. Just a plain waste of beauty. But they've got her husband Russ behind bars where he belongs, and if there's any justice, he'll fry for killing her like that. What a waste... Dan Waxman and his wife Marty have moved down to Florida so that he can start his hydroponic experiments growing tomatoes. Marty was all set to be a lawyer, but gave t...

THE DARK CORNER Kathleen Conley is the perfect secretary. And she knows a tail when she sees one. The guy in the white suit has been following her detective boss, Bradford Galt, all evening. So Galt braces the guy and takes him to his office for a little talk, and has Kathleen follow him after he leaves. Turns out the man in the white suit is working for Jardine, his ex-partner, the man who set him up a few years back to take a homicide rap-...

FREAKSHOW Bat Fidler has always been a loner, never able to fit in with other people. Then he lands a wrestling job at a carnival sideshow. That's where he meets Emmy, a scrappy stripper, and Fish Boy, the belligerent guy in charge-and his lovely wife, Fish Girl, one of the stars of the freakshow. Bat as usual finds himself the misfit among the other performers. They all annoy him. He even finds himself arguing with Emmy. It's not long be...

THE BUTLER DIED IN BROOKLYN Shepard had been a loyal family butler, but when Marianne finds him that evening, he is a very dead butler. Someone had staged his exit as a suicide. However, police detective Gridley Nelson realizes that this is a case of murder. A murder with too many suspects. There are the twins, Hale and Clement, Marianne's brothers, their Grandmother, Beulah, the matriarch of the family, currently married to hapless husband ...

THE BODY IN THE BED Barr Breed doesn't want to take the case at first. When Mr. Gibbs comes to him with a story about finding his mistress strangled in her bed, and not wanting to go the cops about it, Breed turns him right down. He doesn't want to get involved in murder. But Gibbs persuades him to take a look at the murder scene and keep the cops away for 24 hours. Convinced of Gibbs' innocence, Breed begins to cover his client's tracks. Th...

SUDDEN FEAR Myra Hudson is the last in the long line of the Hudsons, and her fame, wealth and power are legendary. She has written seven plays in the last fifteen years, all of them successful. Now she watches the rehearsal for her latest, "Immoral Courage, " and notices that one of the male leads, Lester Blaine, is too handsome for the part. So she has him removed. But there he is on opening night, charming his way past her defenses-and in...

FORGET MY FATE Special Agent Eric Lund is in Northern Minnesota at Camp Midaywin, but he's not vacationing. He's there to investigate a lead on someone who is trying to blackmail a U.S. senator. What he finds is Mr. & Mrs. Fitts, the aged owners of the camp, Verne Anderson, a fellow fisherman, Althea Sharon, an older hiker who is writing her adventures, and Roger Winton and Mart Bryan, two young men who are both interested in fellow-camper R...

24 HOURS TO KILL They were bringing in Jack Kelty. Though young, he had killed two men during a botched robbery. Thanks to reporter Martin Hillary, he is now something of a hero. Hillary is pursuing the caravan, followed by Kelty's young gang. But as the police caravan drives Kelty to justice, a savage storm floods the area, stranding them all in the small town of Blue Valley. Most of the men of Blue Valley are fighting the flood elsewhere. ...

How Love Came to Professor Guildea: Professor Guildea is an extremely unsentimental man-he doesn't need nor want anyone's affection. He has his work, and that is enough. Until one evening when he sees a figure in the park, and crosses the street to investigate. No one is there, and yet Guildea is convinced that someone follows him back into his house... a strange presence with a curious and very irritating attraction to him. A Tribute of So...

SO DEADLY FAIR It was dark and raining when Walter Johnson crawls out of the freight car that night. So when he sees a woman motioning to him from the window of a house across from the tracks, he decides to investigate. What he finds is a bloodied corpse, and the set-up with him as the killer. But Johnson doesn't intend to allow himself to be railroaded into a murder charge. He grabs the woman who tried to frame him, and takes off with her f...

SATAN IS A WOMAN Larry Cole's brother Tad is sent up for life for the murder of a couple fellow hoods. Larry has always looked up to Tad, and knows that if he just had enough money, he could buy him a lawyer that could get him out. When he meets Joan, his new neighbor, Larry gets sidetracked by love. He's crazy with it. But Joan is full of surprises, and she has a plan-to rob the Beach Club. This isn't what Larry has in mind to raise cash, b...

READY WHEN YOU ARE This remarkable collection highlights the quality, range, and idiosyncratic creativity of Barry N. Malzberg's work both inside and outside of the science fiction genre. Some of these stories could have been published anywhere (and, in fact, two of them appeared in BEST MYSTERIES OF THE YEAR anthologies). Many of them read as if Samuel Beckett woke up one day and decided to write absurdist science fiction exploring the ex...

THE FIFTH GRAVE Karl Craven is a P.I. who hits town on a simple but well-paying job. He's been hired to get a young woman out of a local religious cult. He's also looking for his partner. Then he finds out that his partner's been murdered. Nor does it look like Penelope has any intention of leaving the cult. So all Craven has to do is rescue the girl and find out who killed his partner. But in a city this corrupt, he also has to stay one ...

ACAPULCO G.P.O. Acapulco is a paradise to some, but for most of the expatriates living here, the good life is a mixed blessing. Too much money and too much temptation is a bad breeding ground. Jim Harris knows that all too well. As a painter, his glory days are behind him, and all he can do is teach. His wife Sonia has become the breadwinner, modeling in the nude for the other painters. So Jim and Sonia argue-and drink. But now Sally, a te...

HOLLOW TRIUMPH Henry Mueller is convinced that he is better than everyone else, but is frustrated when he realizes that the rest of the world doesn't agree. He wants to become a doctor but doesn't have the patience, so instead pursues a life of petty crime. Upon his release from prison, Henry marries a trusting young woman for her money. Once she gets wise to the fact that the only person Henry loves is himself, she leaves him. And now it's ...

THE ACCUSED Alvin Morlock isn't looking for a wife, but after a wild weekend away from his duties teaching English to a bunch of unresponsive college students, meeting Louise is a nice surprise. She seems so demure, quiet and sensitive. But after their hasty marriage, Morlock finds out that Louise is anything but demure. It starts with her not paying the household bills, several hundred dollars' worth. Then she starts staying out, coming ...

COLLABORATIVE CAPERS Some writers feel that collaboration requires twice the work for half the reward. Barry N. Malzberg is not one of them. You hold the proof in your hands. In Collaborative Capers, you'll find more than two dozen extraordinary short stories written in collaboration with an assortment of wild talents during the past five decades. That includes writers like Mike Resnick, Kris Neville, Jack Dann, Paul Di Filippo, Batya Swif...