Deeds of Darkness: William Burton McCormick Short Story Collections - Softcover

McCormick, William Burton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1685127908 ISBN 13: 9781685127909

Publisher: Level Short, 2024

Synopsis

"This guy has a wonderfully twisted mind! Buckle up for a scary ride." - Peter James, International bestselling crime thriller author

Deeds of Darkness is the best short fiction by award-winning author William Burton McCormick. A collection of twenty-four globetrotting stories of suspense, mystery, crime, espionage, horror, and historical genres from the pages of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, The Saturday Evening Post, Mystery Magazine, and elsewhere. Deeds of Darkness includes stories nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award, Shamus Award, Thriller Award, and five Derringer Award-nominated stories. Also included are two unabridged novellas, "Demon in the Depths," which finished second in the Ellery Queen's Readers' Poll for 2021, and "House of Tigers," named to the Honor Roll for both the Black Orchid Novel Award and the Mysterious Bookshop's Best Mystery Stories of 2023. Deeds of Darkness takes readers from war-torn Eastern Europe to gangster America and deep below the frozen seas of the Arctic Ocean. From modern tales of crime to World War II espionage to ghost stories in shadowy Odessa and murder in Ancient Rome, every flavor of suspense and adventure awaits within.

"McCormick is one of the most inventive and original writers currently working in the mystery short story field." - Janet Hutchings, Editor-in-Chief, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine

About this title

About the Author

William Burton McCormick is an Edgar-award nominated writer of crime and thriller fiction set mainly in Eastern Europe. He is a regular contributor to Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, The Saturday Evening Post, Mystery Magazine, Black Mask, and elsewhere. He is the author of the award-winning thriller novels A Stranger from the Storm, Lenin's Harem, and KGB Banker, the last co-written with whistle-blower John Christmas. His forthcoming Western novel Ghost was a finalist for a Claymore Award for best unpublished novel. A native of Nevada, William earned his MA in Novel Writing from the University of Manchester in the UK. He has lived in seven countries for writing purposes, including Ukraine, Latvia, Estonia, and Russia. Learn more about his writing at williamburtonmccormick.com

Edition details

• Publisher: Level Short
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1685127908
• ISBN 13: 9781685127909
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 578