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The fourth installment in James Holding's classic "The Photographer" series about a professional assassin. One of his best series....
Welcome to Black Cat Weekly #32. This issue, we have more original stories than ever before. Editors Michael Bracken and Cynthia Ward have brought in ...
The Photographer wakes in a coffin, and flashes back to a meeting where he is hired to kill a one-armed man -- who has gotten the drop on him. Will he...
The first installment in James Holding's classic "The Photographer" series about a professional assassin. One of his best....
Welcome to the third volume of The Black Cat Mystery Community’s THRILLOGY series, celebrating classic mystery short stories. Included this time are...
Our 93rd issue has a ton (we weighed it!) of great fiction, starting with an original crime story from John M. Floyd. John remains one of our most pop...
Welcome to Black Cat Weekly #29—another fine issue. We have a historical interview with Poul Anderson (originally published in 1976). As Darrell say...
In "Second Talent," Manuel, Holding's photographer assassin, is assigned to kill a rare art collector, Senhor Martinho. But Martinho has plans of his ...
Rodolfo urges the Photographer to assassinate a nightclub singer who is going to publish a book full of incriminating information on everyone involved...
When an old professor of art informs a museum curator that a piece his institution owns is actually half of a full statue—whose other section is hou...
The Photographer is hired to kill an executive at a chemical company, but as he prepares for the job, the man is kidnapped by the Brazilian Liberation...
The Photographer is hired to kill a man using a model to smuggle heroin into the U.S. Evesdropping, he learns that the model double-crossed his victim...
When the Photographer is hired to kill a printer, he finds layers of deception, counterfeit money, and blackmail. #15 in the classic series from Eller...
This issue features a pair of original tales: a mystery from Kaye George (thanks to acquiring editor Michael Bracken) and a fantasy from Adrian Cole (...
The Photographer #19
In the February 24, 1982 issue of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, the editor offered the following challenge to the Author: "A plot idea for the next...
This issue brights quite a selection of mysteries and crime stories—8, in fact. (Though two are doing double-duty as science fiction.) Michael Brack...
The second installment in James Holding's classic "The Photographer" series about a professional assassin. One of his best series....
When the Photographer refuses to take an assignment -- killing the nephew of General Da Silva, junta member -- the Corporation finds a replacement...o...
Vetuka of the Shark Clan, anging Melanesian fishermen and ,diver is approached by his nephew Likuva and Japanese friend Michiko to find the wreck of t...
Black Cat Weekly #18 is another great lineup of novels and short stories this time, so without further ado—on to the stories! Mysteries / Suspense: ...
This time, we have an original mystery from Jack Roney (thanks to Acquiring Editor Michael Bracken) and modern mysteries from Merrilee Robson (thanks ...
A Rare Stamp Mystery
Lenny reached with gloved hands for the stamp album on the top shelf. He had not only found one of those rare twelve-cent 1861 stamps, but he was abou...
A policeman tasked with keeping order in a seedy section of town learns he's to have a partner. They get along famously, and as the months pass they s...
The Photographer latest assignment: identify and kill The Butcher, a rival killer. Noting that The Butcher's victims show no signs of struggle, are al...
Criminally underpaid assassin Manuel Andredas is hired to kill a famous jockey -- for a particularly paltry sum....
Miranda, longtime bank employee, executes a sound plan to erase all evidence of her mortgage debt. It can’t fail. And then, she is declared Employee...
The photographer is hired to kill an artist -- who moonlights as a forger....
Black Cat Weekly #30 is a fabulous issue. This time, Darrell Schweitzer has unearthed his 1980 interview with Tom Disch, which is fascinating. Disch t...
This issue, we have an original mystery by dbschlosser (courtesy of Acquiring Editor Michael Bracken), a recent tale by Bruce Robert Coffin (courtesy ...
Our 103rd issue is just one shy of our second anniversary issue, but we still have a whale of an issue for you. Regular readers will notice a new cate...
A French Murder Mystery
At 7:10 Martin came clattering up the stairs from the butcher shop three at a time. His knock on M. Beauregard’s door had none of its usual apologet...
Our 68th weekly issue has several holiday tales to spice up the season, including an original (“Merry Library Murder,” by N.M. Cedeño, courtesy o...
Our 69th issue is being put together in the chaos of the holiday season. It’s hard, but the team always manages to pull things together at the last ...
When a mysterious visitor arrives in the small town of Havenwood, the locals are wary. Rumors spread about the stranger's unusual abilities and unclea...
A young Moroccan boy devises a clever plan to help his father plow their barley field....
Written specifically for the new examination format, this new book is an essential tool for all those preparing for the final FRCA exam. For easy acce...
The Black Cat web site has been around for almost four years now, serving up a weekly buffet of new and classic mysteries—and more recently science ...
Hal Johnson is a retired cop who works for his city's public library, tracking down missing and overdue books. But his switch of careers is no sinecur...
An elementary reader containing stories about city and country life as well as a selection of fairy tales....
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