Five Weird Crimes — Dean Wesley Smith

USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith has written some of the strangest crime stories ever published.

This book contains five of the strangest. “The Old Girlfriend of Doom,” “Husband Dummies,” “The Yellow of the Flickering Past,” “Sprinkle on a Memory,” and “The Ghosts of the Garden Lounge.”

From superheroes to time traveling jukeboxes, crime stories don't get weirder.

Bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith has written more than ninety popular novels and well over 100 published short stories. His novels include the science fiction novel Laying the Music to Rest and the thriller The Hunted as D.W. Smith. With Kristine Kathryn Rusch, he is the coauthor of The Tenth Planet trilogy and The 10th Kingdom. He writes under many pen names and has also ghosted for a number of top bestselling writers.

Dean has also written books and comics for all three major comic book companies, Marvel, DC, and Dark Horse, and has done scripts for Hollywood. One movie was actually made.

Over his career he has also been an editor and publisher, first at Pulphouse Publishing, then for VB Tech Journal, then for Pocket Books.

Currently, he is writing thrillers and mystery novels under another name.

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