Harvard-educated Ernst “Putzi” Hanfstaengl was one of Hitler’s confidants during his Munich days. Following the failed Beer Hall Putsch in 1923, Hitler fled to Uffing, a small village in Bavaria, to the Hanfstaengls’ home. The story is that when the village constable was sent to arrest him, a pale and wounded Hitler opened the door and surrendered, saying, “You must do what you must for your country.” Hitler went on to spend time in Landsberg Prison, where he wrote Mein Kampf. The rest, sadly, is history.
About the Editor
MAXIM JAKUBOWSKI is a London-based former publisher, editor, and translator. He has compiled over one hundred anthologies in a variety of genres, many of which have garnered awards. He is a past winner of the Karel and Anthony awards. He broadcasts regularly on radio and TV, reviews for diverse newspapers and magazines, and has been a judge for several literary prizes. He is the author of twenty novels, the last being The Louisiana Republic (2018), and a series of Sunday Times bestselling novels under a pseudonym. He has also published five collections of his own short stories. He is currently Vice Chair of the British Crime Writers’ Association. www.maximjakubowski.co.uk
About the Authors
KEITH BROOKE’s first novel, Keepers of the Peace, appeared in 1990. Since then, he has published eight more adult novels, six collections, and more than seventy short stories. His novel Genetopia was published by Pyr in February 2006 and was his first title to receive a starred review in Publishers Weekly. The Accord, published by Solaris in 2009, received another starred PW review and was optioned for film. His most recent SF novel, Harmony (published in the UK as alt.human), was shortlisted for the Philip K Dick Award. Writing as Nick Gifford, his teen fiction is published by Puffin, with one novel also optioned for the movies by Andy Serkis and Jonathan Cavendish’s Caveman Films. He writes reviews for The Guardian, teaches creative writing at the University of Essex, and lives with his wife Debbie in Wivenhoe, Essex.
ERIC BROWN has won the British Science Fiction Award twice for his short stories, and his novel Helix Wars was shortlisted for the 2012 Philip K. Dick award. His latest books include the crime novel set in the 1950s, Murder Served Cold, and the SF novel Buying Time. He has also written a dozen books for children and over 150 short stories. He writes a monthly science fiction review column for The Guardian newspaper and lives in Cockburnspath, Scotland. His website can be found at: www.ericbrown.co.uk.
DAVID STUART DAVIES is the author of eight Sherlock Holmes novels and Starring Sherlock Holmes, which details the detective’s film career. David’s two successful one-man plays, Sherlock Holmes: The Last Act and Sherlock Holmes: The Life & Death have been recorded on audio CD by The Big Finish. His new play, Sherlock Holmes: The Final Reckoning, premiered in Edinburgh in February 2018. David is the author of other works of crime fiction including six Johnny Hawke novels. His latest books are Blood Rites and Oliver Twist & The Mystery of Throate Manor. He is a Baker Street Irregular, a member of The Detection Club, and edits Red Herrings, the monthly magazine of the Crime Writers’ Association.
Born in New Orleans, O’NEIL DE NOUX is a prolific American writer of novels and short stories with forty books published, over four hundred short story sales, and a screenplay produced in 2000. Much of De Noux’s writing is character-driven crime fiction, although he has written in many disciplines including historical fiction, children’s fiction, mainstream fiction, mystery, science fiction, suspense, fantasy, horror, Western, literary, religious, romance, humor, and erotica. Mr. De Noux is a retired police officer and a former homicide detective. His writing has garnered a number of awards, including the United Kingdom Short Story Prize, the Shamus Award (given annually by the Private Eye Writers of America to recognize outstanding achievement in private eye fiction), the Derringer Award (given annually by the Short Mystery Fiction Society to recognize excellence in short mystery fiction) and Police Book of the Year (awarded by PoliceWriters.com). Two of his stories have been featured in the prestigious Best American Mystery Stories annual anthology (2003 and 2013). He is a past Vice President of the Private Eye Writers of America.
JANE FINNIS lives in Yorkshire and has been fascinated by Ancient Roman history ever since, as a child, she walked the straight Roman roads that still cross the countryside there and saw the historic remains in cities like York. Her mysteries are set there, but in Roman times when Britain was a raw frontier province of a mighty Empire. Her amateur and rather reluctant sleuth is Aurelia Marcella, who runs the Oak Tree Inn on the road to York, where she receives all sorts of visitors bringing all sorts of problems. Aurelia appears in several short stories and also in a series of novels: Shadows in the Night, A Bitter Chill, Buried Too Deep, and Danger in the Wind. www.janefinnis.com.
MARY HARRIS is a writer (published in fiction and nonfiction), editor, and screenwriter; she understands the struggle to get the idea from the head to the paper. Her main mantra is, “It’s all about the story.” She has worked for several large publishers, including Sourcebooks and Loose Id, and is the executive editor of Hidden Thoughts Press. She is a passionate believer in the Oxford comma but allows nothing to interrupt the flow of the story. She lives in North Carolina with her family and Diggz, the best cockapoo ever. www.maryharriswriter.com.
RHYS HUGHES has lived in many countries. He currently splits his time between Britain and Kenya. His first book, Worming the Harpy, was published in 1995, and since that time he has published more than forty other books, eight hundred short stories, and numerous articles, and his work has been translated into ten languages around the world. His most recent book is Mombasa Madrigal and Other African Escapades. His fiction is generally fantastica.
ALISON JOSEPH is a crime writer and award-winning radio dramatist. After a career in television documentaries, she began writing full time with the first of the Sister Agnes series of crime novels. She is also the author of a series featuring a fictional Agatha Christie as a detective. She is currently working on a standalone thriller about genetics. Alison was chair of the British Crime Writers’ Association from 2013–2015 and is a member of the Killer Women collective.
RUSSEL D. McLEAN is the author of seven crime novels and several short stories, which have run the genre gamut from crime to SF to horror. His debut novel, The Good Son, was shortlisted for “Best First Novel” by the Private Eye Writers of America in 2010 and was the first appearance of Dundonian PI, J McNee. After working as a bookseller for over ten years, Russel now splits his time between writing fiction and work as a freelance editor. His latest book, Ed’s Dead, is a darkly humorous, standalone noir set in Glasgow. www.russeldmcleanbooks.com.
PAUL MAGRS lives and writes in Manchester. In a twenty-five-year writing career, he has published novels in every genre from literary to Gothic mystery to science fiction for adults and young adults. His most recent books include the concluding volume in a science fiction trilogy for kids, The Heart of Mars (Firefly Press), and Fellowship of Ink (Snow Books), which continues the multi-volumed saga of Brenda, the long-lost bride of Frankenstein. 2019 sees the publication of his book on writing, reading, and creativity, The Novel Inside You (Snow Books). He has taught creative writing at both the University of East Anglia and Manchester Metropolitan University and now writes full time.
NICK MAMATAS is the author of several novels, including the murder mystery I Am Providence and the supernatural thriller Sabbath. His short crime fiction has appeared in Best American Mystery Stories, a number of Akashic Books’ City Noir anthologies, and his short science fiction and fantasy was recently collected in The People’s Republic of Everything. Nick lives in Oakland, California.
SANDRA MURPHY is an extensively published nonfiction writer and the author of several short stories including “Sharon Leigh Takes Texas” featured in The Book of Extraordinary Amateur Sleuth and Private Eyes anthology and her own crime collection in From Hay to Eternity: Ten Tales of Crime and Deception.
NICK QUANTRILL was born and raised in Hull, an
isolated industrial city in East Yorkshire. His trilogy of Private Investigator novels featuring Joe Geraghty are published by Fahrenheit Press and he’s hard at work on a fourth. Nick is also the cofounder of the Hull Noir festival.
Born in Wales, SALLY SPEDDING was a sculptor and artist until words took over. Her short stories and poetry have won awards and continue to be widely published. Sharpe Books is publishing seven of her noir crime chillers, beginning with The Nighthawk, set in the eastern Pyrénées and featuring newly retired DI John Lyon from Nottingham. For thirty years, she and her artist husband have been inspired by their bolthole near Perpignan where timeslips occur. www.sallyspedding.com.
RICKI THOMAS is a scriptwriter and author with seven crime thrillers and many short stories in print. From Oxford, she has travelled extensively and now lives with her youngest son in Hertfordshire. Ricki’s biggest interests are criminal psychology, music, and comedies.
LAVIE TIDHAR is the author of the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize winning and Premio Roma nominee A Man Lies Dreaming (2014), the World Fantasy Award winning Osama (2011) and the Campbell Award winning and Locus and Clarke Award nominated Central Station (2016). His latest novels are Unholy Land (2018) and first children’s novel Candy (2018). He is the author of many other novels, novellas, and short stories.
YVONNE WALUS’s heritage is intercontinental. Communist Poland taught her never to trust newspapers, how to play the game within the system, and to value uniformity. South Africa’s apartheid taught her never to trust newspapers, how to play the game within the system and to value diversity. New Zealand has so many lessons to teach, Yvonne is planning to stay put for a while. Crime fiction is her passion. Her childhood hero was, predictably, Hercule Poirot. For a time, she was totally into Jack Reacher, but her current favorite is Benedict Cumberbatch. Her own books are available on Amazon and you can connect with her here: www.yvonnewalus.com.
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