The King is DeadKing Bendigo is the wealthiest man alive. He has an enormous security detail on his private island, quite capable of dealing with international aggression. But not threats from within his own family. Fearing for his life, he hires brilliant detective Ellery Queen. The King's brother Judah makes no secret of wanting him dead. He even gives a date and a time on which he will commit the crime. So when the day comes, the King is kept in a hermetically

A shut eye

As the train moves slowly on

Produced at a time when he was at his most extreme and messianic

Her ex-husband is tapping her for money

What is the truth

In these 14 short stories two young writers give a dazzling display of the power and scope of the short story form

I recognised the tune it was playing

I have tried to make a theatre for the larger worlds we inhabit

only 19 herself

his lower body crushed where a car has repeatedly driven over him

Commissario of the Venice Police

'When he moves into a new genre