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Jan 16, 2024 · 12 True Creepy Crimes That Will Make You Lock Your Doors Tonight. 1. Angela Hammond. “She was talking on the payphone with her fiance and saying how there is this suspicious truck that keeps driving around the block.
- January Nelson
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- “If You Want Something Done Right . . .” | Sue Grafton
- “Just to Watch Him Die” by Holly West
- “Mr. Mumsford” by Larry French
- “The Two Bottles of Relish” by Lord Dunsany
- “An Almost Perfect Crime” by William F. Smith
- “The Weekender” by Jeffery Deaver
- “The Royal Californian” by Tod Goldberg
- “A Touch of Petulance” by Ray Bradbury
- “Brothers” by Sherwood Anderson
- “De Mortuis” by John Collier
Lucy is picking up some medication for her husband, Burt, a successful divorce attorney. He needs to stock up while Lucy is away. They were going to go on vacation together for their twenty-fifth anniversary, but Burt pulled out from fear of catching something in India. He also has a history of infidelity. She reaches her breaking point when she he...
David Severance drowned in the Spokane River, a probable suicide. His estranged wife doesn’t think he was suicidal. She went to his apartment, a hopeless place, to arrange his things. She found a picture of David with people she’d never seen before. They look like a family. This story can be read in the Amazon preview of The Eviction of Hope.
Bibs, a janitor at a school, takes a bat from the equipment room and hides in wait for the principal. (Summary)
A salesman tells a story that those in the know want to hush up. A woman, suspected of being murdered, completely disappeared. A man named Steeger was the prime suspect. He’s in possession of the money she had. He says she left the country. The salesman relates all the details to his flat mate, who has a knack for seeing what others miss. This stor...
A man entered a telephone booth, closed the door, and fell over dead a few minutes later with an ice pick in his back. A thorough report has been filed, recording every detail about the scene. It’s handed over to Detective Stone. This story can be read in the preview of The Mammoth Book of Perfect Crimes & Impossible Mysteries.
The narrator and Toth are driving fast on an empty road. There’s no cops yet. They’ve just come from robbing a drugstore, and it didn’t go well—someone ended up getting killed. They see pulsing lights up ahead. They turn off and head for a town that Toth knows where they can find an empty house and wait it out. This story can be read in the preview...
Shane left the hospital before the police could get there. Now his car has broken down, and his foot is too swollen for a shoe. He doesn’t have much cash on him. He needs to get somewhere he can rest and hide out. A lot of this story can be read in the preview of The Low Desert: Gangster Stories.
Jonathan Hughes met his fate in the form of an old man while he rode the train home from work. He noticed the old man’s newspaper looked more modern than his own. There was a story on the front page about a murdered woman—his wife. His mind raced. This story can be read in the preview of Killer, Come Back To Me: The Crime Stories of Ray Bradbury.
The narrator lives at his country house, twenty miles from Chicago. There is an old man in the area that the people call insane. When the old man hears a news story he always claims to be related to the person in question. The Chicago papers are reporting that a man murdered his wife for no apparent reason. This is the second story in the preview o...
Mr. Rankin is in his cellar, doing some patchwork on the floor. He hears his door closing upstairs, and then the voices of Bud and Buck, calling out to him. They want him to come fishing, but he’s not feeling particularly sociable. This is the second story in the preview of Fancies and Goodnights: Vol 1.
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Jul 9, 2023 · From the assassination of Gianni Versace in front of his Miami mansion to JonBenét Ramsey's unsolved killing, explore some of the most famous murder cases in history. Some deaths stick with us. Some lives are extinguished in such strange and horrifying ways that they haunt us for years.
- Caroline Redmond
Feb 23, 2020 · The tale is about her grandfather, who worked on a passenger train during a time when there was a ghastly murder on board. Reminiscent of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express, this whodunit is full of zany characters who will keep you guessing until the very end.
Apr 7, 2020 · April 7, 2020. All true crime stories start as crime reporting, often in the daily newspaper. Before the narrative is shaped for your streaming device, earbuds or bookshelf, the facts are...
