Death in a Box: 28 Tingling Mystery Tales

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Death in a Box brings you 28 thrilling, chilling, and sometimes massively amusing short mystery tales!

Elm Books is proud to present the collected edition of its three Death mystery anthologies, Death on a Cold Night, Death and the Detective, and Death and a Cup of Tea—tales of murder in the midst of winter, the capers of professional detectives, all washed down with the wisdom of a bevy of female sleuths.

Award-winning mystery author and editor, Jess Faraday, has gathered a diverse and gripping set of stories, with something to appeal to every mystery lover. The sleuths in Death and a Cold Night come in many forms: a precocious child, an unemployed man marking time on public transport, a mountain cabin caretaker, a quick-thinking assistant movie producer, or a young intern at the local Philadelphia coroner’s office. Touches of the supernatural can be found in tales of a club of vampires or when Native American legends come to life.

In Death and the Detective, some Elm authors return, joined by a fabulous range of veteran and new writers. These detective tales take you on wild ride from San Francisco to Massachusetts and back. We have a dead pig, dead lovers , a dead shoe salesmen, suicide, lots of arson, fortuitous accidents, setups and even a touch of romance. The diverse detectives include a few PIs, some cops, some ex-cops, an insurance adjuster, ATF, a security guard, and a pair of Shadow Wolves -- formidable Native American trackers who work with Homeland Security. We bring you double crosses, revenge, things to prove, people just asking for it, and a couple of chances at redemption. All in crisp exciting prose.

The final book in the collection, Death and a Cup of Tea, presents the tales of eight female sleuths. Some are comforting, others are deadly. But whether your style is English, Jasmine, Chai, Green, or Vanilla Cream there's bound to be a cup for everyone! In a volume with more Elm veterans and some exciting fresh talent, you'll find a wide range of lovable characters in deadly situations—sleuthing proves more interesting than biology homework, a mother’s death leaves a broken family in need of healing, a blind detective solves an intergalactic mystery, and justice is served up hot, cold, and with a side of cucumber sandwiches.

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Leonhard August, Emily Baird, Cris de Borja, Sarah M. Chen, H. Tucker Cobey, Jess Faraday, Lynn Finger, Mark Hague, Robert D. Hughes, Gay Toltl Kinman, Carol Leininger, Cheryl Korte, Michael Mallory, Christalea McMullin, Lee Mullins, Sharon Nelson, Stefanie Rico, Albert Tucher, Kirk Van Dyke, Devin Wood, Wendy Worthington.

Artwork by Virginia Cantarella.