| An Issue of Women and Money |
Kubu has to investigate a murder at a neighborhood bar. At first it seems to be a case of a drunken brawl but some aspects don't add up. And when it turns out the victim has just had a big win at the casino, Kubu knows that there's more to it than meets the eye...
An Issue of Women and Money appears in Once Upon A Crime - an anthology of murder, mayhem and suspense, edited by Gary Bush & Chris Everheart and published by Nodin Press. ISBN 978 1 932472 71 4
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| The Empty Chair by Graham Greene and... |
The Empty Chair is a recently discovered unfinished novella by Graham Greene. Set in an English country house where a group of guests are spending a few days with Lady Alice Perriham, one morning a guest does not appear for breakfast and is discovered murdered. At first it seems straightforward, but the case becomes more and more complicated. Inspector Maybury - an intriguing stamp-collecting detective - follows the trail. But it's the aging actor - Sir John Collis - who unravels the mystery.
The Strand Magazine published the novella and ran a competition for the best ending to the story. Our offering was chosen and will appear in the Spring 2011 edition.
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| The Haunting |
The Haunting is a short story about a witchdoctor in South Africa who gets mixed up in a murder. And finds a strange way of solving it.
It appeared in the June-Sept. 2010 issue of The Strand Magazine.
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| Neighbours by Michael Stanley |
Two neighbours in a small rural village in Botswana are always feuding. Barking dogs, tresspassing goats, whatever. When one dies a sudden and mysterious death, the villagers suspect witchcraft and threaten to take the law into their own hands. Kubu doesn't have long to solve the case.
Neighbours appears in an anthology of short stories by South African crime writers entitled Bad Company, edited by Joanne Hichens and published by Pan MacMillan. ISBN 978 1 770 10087 9.
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