WOWIO New Mysteries & Thrillers

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:26:38 CST

Agatha Christie

“The Mysterious Affair at Styles” was the first novel by mystery writer Agatha Christie.

It set the tone for her later, wildly successful detective fiction novels, and it introduced her signature characters Hercule Poirot, Chief Inspector Japp and Captain Arthur Hastings.

This special “remastered” volume includes the illustrations from the 1920 edition that create a proper whodunit air.

Alien Encounters: True Life Stories of Aliens, UFOs and Other Extra-Terrestrial Phenomena

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:41:30 CST

Rupert Matthews

In this compelling and revealing examination, author Rupert Matthews looks afresh at key episodes of alien activity on earth, and sheds light on the many mysterious phenomena associated with it. From Roswell to Taizé, the book dissects fascinating eyewitness accounts of communication and contact with alien beings, as well as chilling cases of abduction. It also sifts through sinister evidence of government cover-ups. Ten Special Casebooks give in-depth analysis of the most important encounters...

Candy in Action

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:07:23 CST

Matthue Roth

Candy Cohen is just the girl next door -- that is, if the girl next door happens to be a college freshman and a part-time model with a wicked sense of humor. She and her best friend, Velma, jaunt around the world, flirt with rock stars and power brokers, and party it up in countries that don't even know the meaning of the word.

But all that changes one night, when Candy turns down the rich and powerful Preston Reign's invitation to dinner. Suddenly, she finds herself being stalked by a guy...

Hot Tea ... Cold Case: A Stephen Blackman Mystery

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:12:39 CST

D.G. Stern

They had the perfect company, a great business plan, investor angels lined up to throw cash at them -- and then one day they disappeared: the top executives and all their files and computers -- and a vial of the deadly Ebola virus that no one knew they had.

Stephen Blackman, a burned out lawyer on his first case as a private investigator, takes on the case. A great new private eye with a taste for tea and a nose for trouble, Blackman gets in over his head but manages to sort out the mystery...

Death is a Two-Stroke Penalty: A Hacker Mystery

Sun, 30 Dec 2007 21:25:41 CST

James Y. Bartlett

In the first Hacker mystery, golf writer Pete Hacker is covering the Carolinas Open, where an up-and-coming young star is found dead. Was it an accident or a murder? As Hacker begins to dig in, meeting a drug-dealing caddie, a love-worn golf groupie and the strange, Bible-thumping tour chaplain, his own life is threatened. The drama builds like the tension in the last round of the tournament!

Death at the Member-Guest: A Hacker Mystery

Sun, 30 Dec 2007 21:22:07 CST

James Y. Bartlett

Hacker thought his invitation was for a weekend of golf and fun at a buddy's country club north of Boston. Instead, the strange and much-unliked club president is found murdered and as Hacker begins to dig into the man's background, he uncovers some unsavory connections, like to the Boston Mob. Suddenly, Hacker himself is in danger.

Death from the Ladies Tee: A Hacker Mystery

Sun, 30 Dec 2007 21:17:10 CST

James Y. Bartlett

Who said girls always play nice? Not Hacker, who, in covering an LPGA tournament in Miami as a favor for an old friend, finds the Tour being run as the personal fiefdom of Wynnona "Big Wyn" Stilwell, a former tour star now in the twilight of her own career. As Hacker begins asking his usual impertinent questions, tension rises and builds to the explosive conclusion.

Death in a Green Jacket: A Hacker Mystery

Sun, 30 Dec 2007 21:14:36 CST

James Y. Bartlett

A body is buried in a bunker at Augusta National Golf Club just weeks before the beginning of the Masters tournament. Golf writer Pete Hacker begins digging and finds a wall of silence from offical Augusta and a feared hitman from the South American drug cartels lurking in the azaleas. It's a major new adventure for Hacker that's as exciting as the back nine on Sunday!

The Search for Jack the Ripper: A Psychic Investigation

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:29:36 CST

Pamela Ball

The Search for Jack the Ripper - a psychic investigation is the story of the author's journey into the heart of a mystery that has haunted the popular imagination for over 100 years. The grisly details both fascinate and repel, and the apparent lack of an understandable motive makes the story even more bewildering.

Using both astrology and channelling combined with a detailed study of the political and social background of the time, Pamela Ball is able to shatter many of the myths and...

Pantheon: The Complete Script Book

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:44:05 CST

Bill Willingham

Dynasty and the Freedom Machine square off against their old ally Daedalus in the pages of Pantheon, the groundbreaking series from Lone Star Press. Now Eisner award-winning writer Bill Willingham's original scripts are in print for the first time in this special volume.

Read the original scripts for the thirteen issues of Pantheon plus the extra stories that ran in Heroic Tales and the never-seen before, Year of the Dragon.

This volume also includes behind the scenes insights and...

The Killer Outfit

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:39:44 CST

Bill Williams

Enter the world of Cape Fiction!

Alan Adams used to wear a mask and fight crime. Now he wears a suit and works as an investigator for the law firm of Porter and Porter. Mark O'Mara used to wear a suit of gleaming battle armor and fight crime. Now his armored alter ego, the Golden Guardian, serves as a corporate spokesman. That is, until the Guardian levels a dozen city blocks sending the two old friends on a collision course. Now, Mister Adams wades into a society of mechanical men...

Tokyo Pop and Other Quinn Stories

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:37:06 CST

Bill Williams

Meet Arthur Quinn.

What do the son of an accountant, an ex-fashion model, an ex-stripper, a drug dealer and a charming rogue all have in common? Quinn hunts for the five missing people in the five stories in this collection. From the streets of Tokyo to the slums of Central Texas, Quinn matches wits with an array of cutthroats and killers.

Williams' collection of Quinn stories falls somewhere short of Andrew Vachss' Burke and somewhere ahead of Parker's Spenser (for hire). Williams loves...

Sundowner Ubuntu: A Russell Quant Mystery

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 12:20:23 CST

Anthony Bidulka

A mother's pain. A million dollars. A missing son. Desperate to right old wrongs, a new client hires Russell Quant to locate her son, Matthew, lost to her for twenty years. But can money relieve remorse?

Through good old-fashioned detective work, Russell peels away the layers of a carefully concealed life, grown from the seeds of traumatic childhood violence. Tracking Matthew's life from the schoolyard drug culture of a pleasant prairie city's underbelly to the stunning vistas, vibrant...

The Man with the Twisted Lip

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 22:53:46 CST

Arthur Conan Doyle

In Arthur Conan Doyle's short story "The Man with the Twisted Lip", Sherlock Holmes goes undercover in the opium dens of London in an attempt to locate a client's missing husband. The story published in 1891 is unique in that in the end there is no crime that has been committed and Holmes does not explain how he came about his solving the mystery.

The Adventure of the Speckled Band

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 22:48:28 CST

Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle once remarked that "The Adventure of the Speckled Band," first published in 1892, was his best Sherlock Holmes story. In it, a young woman, Helen Stoner, consults Holmes about her ill-tempered stepfather whom she suspects had some part in the death of her twin sister, Julia. She fears her stepfather has the same plans for her: he has forced Helen to move into the mysterious and disturbing room in which her sister died under suspicious circumstances. In order to save Helen...

The Adventure of the Six Napoleons

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 22:46:13 CST

Arthur Conan Doyle

In "The Adventure of the Six Napoleons," by Arthur Conan Doyle, Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard presents Sherlock Holmes with a seemingly unimportant problem about a man who shatters plaster busts of Napoleon. Although Lestrade claims that that man must be a lunatic, Holmes knows that there must be a meaning behind the madness. Once Holmes discovers that six busts have been made from the same mold, he sets a trap to catch the culprit in his attempt to smash the last remaining bust. Why is...

A Scandal in Bohemia

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 22:41:30 CST

Arthur Conan Doyle

In "A Scandal in Bohemia", published in 1891, Arthur Conan Doyle has Sherlock Holmes match wits with a clever woman. Holmes is first approached by the King of Bohemia to secure a compromising photo from a vindictive former lover, Irene Adler. But Adler proves too smart for Holmes and manages to escape with her husband and the photo. She promises not to reveal the photo in exchange for her safety and leaves a photo of herself in its place. Holmes acknowledges her as "the woman" and treasures the...

The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 22:38:09 CST

Arthur Conan Doyle

"The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor," by Arthur Conan Doyle, is the tenth of twelve stories collected in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. In this story, the bride of the fictional Lord St. Simon disappears on the day of their marriage. Holmes has dealt with other, similar cases, and this one is rather easy to solve, much as it confuses Dr. Watson.

The Five Orange Pips

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 22:35:09 CST

Arthur Conan Doyle

In Arthur Conan Doyle's story "The Five Orange Pips" (1891), a young man seeks the aid of Sherlock Holmes after both his uncle and father died under mysterious circumstances. It appears that shortly before their deaths, both men received an envelope signed KKK that contained five dried orange pips. Holmes decides that the young man is in danger an promises to help him.

The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 22:06:33 CST

Arthur Conan Doyle

The short story "The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb"(1891) by Arthur Conan Doyle, tells the story of a hydraulic engineer whose life was threatened while attending to a man's press said to be used to crush bricks. When the engineer discovers the truth, he runs for his life, is introduced to Dr. Watson, and assisted by Holmes who solves the case.

The Boscombe Valley Mystery

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 22:03:52 CST

Arthur Conan Doyle

"The Boscombe Valley Mystery" (1891) by Arthur Conan Doyle begins as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are called to investigate a death in Boscombe Valley. Lestrade, a detective from Scotland Yard whose meager abilities are often upstaged by Holmes's brilliant deductions has closed the case in his mind only to have Holmes prove Lestrade wrong and allow the true killer to confess his case.

The Red-Headed League

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:36:35 CST

Arthur Conan Doyle

A London pawnbroker is inexplicably paid large sums of money for a job with a singular qualification: the applicant must have "bright, blazing, fiery red" hair. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson investigate the affair to unearth the underlying motives, revealing a far more sinister plot.

First appearing in 1891 in "The Strand" and published later in the anthology, "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes," Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ranked "The Red-Headed League" second on his list of favorite Holmes...

Catalyst

Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:31:49 CST

Paul Byers

In the waning months of World War II, the allied armies advance upon the crumbling German war machine like a juggernaut. In a final desperate bid to save the Fatherland, a plan is conceived that could turn the tide of the war-the completion of an advanced jet-propelled bomber capable of delivering a deadly payload to the shores of America.

Captain Griff Avery of the OSS has just botched the defection of a prominent German physicist, a man crucial to the Nazi end game, letting him fall into...

The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:54:34 CST

Arthur Conan Doyle

"The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle" centers around a precious blue stone which goes missing and is later discovered in the craw of a Christmas goose. Unable to resist a good mystery, Holmes determines to discover how the stone found its way into the goose; and he and Watson set out to track down the guilty party.

A Case of Identity

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:52:25 CST

Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle's "A Case of Identity" is a story that revolves around the case of Miss Mary Sutherland, a woman with a substantial income from the interest on a fund set up for her. She is engaged to a curious man who has recently disappeared on their wedding day. Sherlock Holmes's detective powers are barely challenged as this turns out to be quite an elementary case for him, much as it puzzles Watson.