Crime Mysteries #14
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeCrime Mysteries #14 is an anthology containing at least two stories. "Painted in Blood" follows a young couple, Jane and Roy, who visit a supposedly haunted house where an artist named John Slade murdered his model and then committed suicide; the story is resolved when Slade's uncle reveals he staged the haunting with fake blood to scare them away from the house. "The Murdered Murderer" depicts a police investigation into a serial killer who has claimed two victims, with a detective pursuing the case and an intruder with supernatural abilities entering a victim's apartment. The issue also includes a text story about the historical murder of Mary Rogers, a "cigar girl" found floating in the Hudson River, which Edgar Allan Poe attempted to solve through deductive reasoning, though the case ultimately remained unsolved.
When detective Tom Day and his rookie partner Bob French stake out a fortune teller's booth to catch a con artist fleecing customers, they uncover something far darker: Madame Temia lies dead, shot at close range in her sealed room. With the killer still trapped inside and no visible escape route, Day must use cunning and deception to flush out the murderer before he vanishes with the hidden fortune Temia kept sewn into her dress. A tense game of wits and ventriloquism unfolds in the eerie, shadowed booth as the detective turns the tables on a desperate criminal.
Inspector Kent pursues a strangler who leaves no witnesses—only victims with bruised throats and a peculiar, zombie-like gait. When a second member of a treasure-hunting syndicate falls, Kent pieces together a warped psychological puzzle that points to an unlikely killer, and stakes himself as bait to catch the murderer before striking again. A clever mystery built on a deceptively simple clue that transforms everything Kent thought he knew about the crimes.
Private detective Dan Burnell tracks down Mazie Dugan, a waitress whose testimony could clear an innocent man in a criminal trial, and persuades her to return to New York—but their journey becomes a deadly race when mysterious forces move to silence her before she can reach the witness stand. As Dan fights to keep his charge alive aboard a train plagued by murder, he uncovers a sinister conspiracy that runs far deeper than he suspected, with "Spider" Morelli himself determined to see justice derailed.
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