When is a ghost not a ghost? Why would a vampire hire a vampire hunter to solve the murder of a fellow bloodsucker? If a werewolf is attacked in wolf form, is it assault or animal abuse? Is it murder if the victim is already dead? Nine talented autho...
Elm Books is proud to present our second mystery collection. All these stories feature an investigator and a death of some kind. But the fertile imaginations of our authors will take you on a wild ride from San Francisco to Massachusetts and back. We...
Death on a Cold Night is Elm Books' first mystery collection: eight chilling winter tales, ranging from a cozy story of the theft of teapots to ripped-from-the-headlines crime stories. We have a slew of dead bodies, settings from a glamorous Hollywoo...
For once, Ira Adler has it easy. He has money in his pocket, a comfortable arrangement with an undemanding young man, and no one's punched, chased, or shot at him in years. Suddenly, an explosion turns everything upside down. Eager to leave Lond...
Billiwack, California, 1884. When translator Rosetta Stein comes across her rival, Bartholomew Vincent, under attack by weird, raven-headed man-beasts behind the infamous Puckered Rosebud Gentleman’s Club, she senses opportunity. She rescues him in...
Elm Books is proud to present the fourth book in our mystery collection, with eight stories featuring a female sleuth and tea. Choose your brew carefully. some are comforting, others are deadly. But whether your style is English, Jasmine, Chai,...
The scissors are blacksmith worked, crude and blackened. Theyââ,¬â"¢ve always hung there at the door of Treagove. For three-hundred years they have played a part in murders and mysteries surrounding the women of the old house. Who says the tool of j...
Jess Faraday, May 2019:
Steampunk writing combines imaginative technological tinkering with a 19th century aesthetic. Cheaply done, that means slap some gears on it, call your protagonist 'Lord Crankshaft' or 'Lady Windlass, ' and get it ou...
Constable Simon Pearce doesn’t believe in love. It’s a dangerous proposition for many people in 19th century London, but for an ambitious copper climbing Scotland Yard’s greasy career ladder, it’s out of the question.He doesn’t believe in m...
1885, East LondonAbigail and Gideon are under siege. Noxious fogs have been bringing their clinic waves of indigent patients with inexplicable symptoms, telling wild tales of a demonic presence in the fog. If that's not enough, someone wants the clin...
Death by CupcakeA cupcake sounds so innocent: a bright, sugary confection fit for a children's party or afternoon tea. But scrape off the frosting, and you might find something quite different underneath, such as......A string of overdoses in peo...
Friday, December 13, 1895 Marshal Calvin Sutter is looking forward to treating his best guy, Ira Adler, to a posh birthday supper. But New York City Police Commissioner Edgar DuBois has other plans for Sutter's evening. He wants Sutter to invest...
To find a thief... Someone has stolen the prize money for the demo team competition at the Los Angeles Festival of Martial Arts. Fingers point to Don Silver, a martial artist with a rough past, trying to make a comeback. Others suspect Chris Jac...