Weird Detective #5

Weird Detective #5
Author: Fred Van Lente
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Total Pages: 24
Release: 2016-10-19
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN:

Det. Sebastian Greene is determined to rescue his partner, Sana, even if it exposes his true demonic nature, but his only clue is the monster killing people all over New York. Can he find Sana, take down the killer, and protect himself from the powerful alien forces corrupting the NYPD? Fred Van Lentes newest original comic series!

Weird Detectives

Weird Detectives
Author: Neil Gaiman
Publisher: Prime Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781607013846

A compilation of stories by twenty-first century authors featuring paranormal investigators, occult detectives, ghost hunters, and monster fighters.

Weird Detective

Weird Detective
Author: Fred Van Lente
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Total Pages: 153
Release: 2017
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1506700381

"This volume collects the Dark Horse comic book series Weird Detective #1-#5 originally published June-October 2016"--Title page verso.

Weird Detective: The Stars Are Wrong

Weird Detective: The Stars Are Wrong
Author: Fred Van Lente
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Total Pages: 153
Release: 2017-02-21
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1630085324

The streets of New York have been plagued by a pattern of crimes too weird and bizarre for the average detective. Lurking in the evidence are shadows of loathsome horrors from beyond space and time, seeking to usher in the unimaginable evil of the Old Ones. And the only man capable of fighting against the unspeakable terrors isn't a man at all. Detective Sebastian Green is one of them--it takes a monster to catch a monster. New York Time's best-selling author, Fred Van Lente, and artist Guiu Vilanova are on the case for Weird Detective, a Lovecraftian mystery tale!

Encyclopedia of Weird Detectives

Encyclopedia of Weird Detectives
Author: Paul Green
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2019-09-13
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1476638373

The detective genre has explored supernatural and paranormal themes throughout its colorful history. Stories of detectives investigating spiritualists, ghostly apparitions, the occult and psychics have spanned pulp fiction magazines, comic books, novels, film, television, animation and video games. This encyclopedia covers the history of the genre in its multiple forms and informs and adds to the knowledge of either the new or informed reader. Its A-Z format provides ready reference by title. Detective fans browsing for new discoveries will enjoy the entertaining style.

The Spellman Files

The Spellman Files
Author: Lisa Lutz
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 482
Release: 2009-01-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1416594175

Izzy Spellman, a twenty-eight-year-old amalgamation of Nancy Drew and Bridget Jones, launches her career as a private investigator while working for the firm of her outlandishly dysfunctional family. A first novel. Reprint.

The Weird Detective Adventures of Wade Hammond

The Weird Detective Adventures of Wade Hammond
Author: Paul Chadwick
Publisher:
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2007-10-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780978683672

Volume 3 contains another 10 stories of vintage detective hero, Wade Hammond, from 1930's detective pulps. Wade battles a baffling array of crazed killers, mad scientists, ornery animals, and more; all told in Paul Chadwick's memorably vivid style.

The Magician Detective

The Magician Detective
Author: Fulton Oursler
Publisher:
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2010
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781935031123

Fulton Oursler was one of the great editors of his time, ruling over the Macfadden publishing empire for two decades. He created the first true-crime magazine, True Detective Mysteries, and off-beat titles like Brain Power, Ghost Stories and True Strange Stories. He achieved national fame in the '30s as the editor of Liberty. But stage magic was his first love, and, in his heart, he remained a conjurer in a black cape and top hat. In this collection of early fiction, Oursler's bewitching imagination takes flight in tales of magic, murder and mesmerizing mystery. Apparitions, half-wits, secret panels, devious deceptions, lunatic asylums, warring magicians, criminal masterminds-it's all here. Also featured is an in-depth exploration of the amazing career of Fulton Oursler.

Deadline

Deadline
Author: John Sandford
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2014-10-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101597763

The thrilling new novel in the #1 New York Times–bestselling series. In Southeast Minnesota, down on the Mississippi, a school board meeting is coming to an end. The board chairman announces that the rest of the meeting will be closed, due to personnel issues. “Issues” is correct. The proposal up for a vote before them is whether to authorize the killing of a local reporter. The vote is four to one in favor. Meanwhile, not far away, Virgil Flowers is helping out a friend by looking into a dognapping, which seems to be turning into something much bigger and uglier—a team of dognappers supplying medical labs—when he gets a call from Lucas Davenport. A murdered body has been found—and the victim is a local reporter. . . .

Baby Daddy Mystery

Baby Daddy Mystery
Author: Daisy Pettles
Publisher: Hot Pants Press, LLC
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2018-12-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0981567851

It's spring in Pawpaw County, Indiana and everybody has a bad case of hanky-panky pants. In the Baby Daddy Mystery oldster sleuths Ruby Jane (RJ) and Veenie are on the run, chasing down cheating heart jezebels and shaking child support out of deadbeat daddies. After Avonelle Apple’s husband, William, the esteemed town dentist, passes away, she receives a child support letter from a self-proclaimed mistress. Suspicious, she hires the Shady Hoosier Detective Agency, to determine if her late husband was a philandering baby daddy. The case seems simple until Avonelle’s son, Bromley, heir to his father’s dental empire, and well-known King of the Hanky-Panky Pants Club, pops up dead in a scarecrow costume. The mounting romantic mysteries come to a surprise head as the senior sleuths outrun shotgun showers to close in on the answers at the Moon Glo Motor Lodge, the Original Home of Hillbilly Hanky Panky. Veenie and RJ have to buy an extra case of Bengay and a buttload of BBs just to keep up with the romantic misadventures in this award-winning humorous cozy mystery. This is Book 2 in The Shady Hoosier Detective Agency Series, featuring amateur women sleuths.