New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Crime Time 1998 July-Sept
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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Crime Time JULY-SEPT 1998

Crime Time 2.1
Time Crime Crime Time 2.1 Pbk published August 1998 by Crime Time at £4.99 ISBN: 1 902002 04 0 Artwork by: Cover: Peter Mann

The biggest, best and most opinionated crime fiction magazine of all gets smaller, squarer and thicker.

 Groundbreaking fiction from:
CWA Golden Dagger nominee James Sallis, Maxim Jakubowski, Jerry Sykes, Carol Anne Davis, Ed Gorman, Gwendoline Butler, Bill Pronzini and more...
Features on:
David Goodis
The Hardboiled passions of Wittgenstein
The new bleed of LA Private Eyes

Children and Violence by bestselling author Michelle Spring
Writing Historical Crime by Molly Brown
An Evening with Colin Dexter

Interviews with:
Maxim Jakubowski
John Lescroat
Comics auteur Alan Moore on his Jack The Ripper opus 'From Hell'
Gemma O'Connor

Plus regular columns by John Kennedy Melling, Steve Holland, Mark Ramsden, what's new in paperback, a skedillion reviews in The Verdict and much, much more.
So cheap and enjoyable it'll probably be illegal soon. Forget the Dome - you want an Ellery Queen's Mystery magazine for the millennium, and we've given it to you on a plate. As James Ellroy once said 'Crime Time rules, other drool' and, let's face it, in the rule/drool area James knows his stuff.

Edward Gorman Cage of Night Pbk published July 1998 by Crime Time at £4.99 ISBN: 1 902002 02 4
"That was about when I heard it for the first time since I'd been in the well, that rumbling not-quite-distinct voice, the voice of one of the ancient gods Lovecraft wrote about.
The further I descended the louder the voice became. Suddenly Josh, the flashlight and safety seemed very far away. I was nearing the bottom of the wellnow, and the voice-"
Twenty-one-year-old Spence returns to his hometown after two years in the Army and falls in love with Cindy Brasher, Homecoming Queen and town goddess to a long line of jealous men.
A string of robberies puts Spence at odds with his obsessive love for Cindy. One by one Spence's rivals are implicated in horrific crimes.
Spence wonders how much Cindy knows, and why she wants him, like her past boyfriends, to visit the old well in the woods...

"The book is full of Gorman's characteristic virtues as a writer: sympathy, humour, commitment to the craft of storytelling, and a headlong narrative drive. A real writer is at work here and there aren't many of those to go around." Dark Echo.
"Cornell Woolrich would have enjoyed Cage Of Night." Locus.
'A book that combines romance, sex, violence, madness and an almost oppressive degree of grief Cage Of Night is one of the most unique noirs ever written. " Pirate Writings.
"Gorman is defining noir for the nineties. " Cemetery Dance.

Ed Gorman is one of the founding editors of one of the world's premiere crime fiction magazines Mystery Scene--and has- over thirty novels and countless short stories to his credit. He is acknowledged as the leading exponent of 'dark suspense'- the fusion of noir crime fiction with the sense of unease of horror fiction. Ed currently has three books in production as movies and an NBC Movie of the Week about to be screened!

Night Kills
Edward Gorman Night Kills Pbk published July 1998 by Crime Time at £4.99 ISBN: 1 902002 03 2
See Review by Lynda Ross
The odd thing was how comfortably she seemed to fit inside there, as if this were a coffin and not a freezer at all. She was completely nude and only now beginning to show signs of the freezing process, ice forming on her arms and face.
But he could tell she hadn't been in here very long because of the smells...
Frank Brolan, successful adman, unwitting fall-guy. Someone has murdered a call girl and planted her in his freezer. Frank has to find the killer before the cops find him.
As the body count rises, with the killer leaving Frank's mark at every crime, Frank flees into the night and the city. He finds help in an unlikely due--a teenage whore and a wheelchair-bound dwarf with a mind like a steel trap...

"A painfully powerful and personal novel about three outsiders-an alcoholic advertising executive, a man twisted and disfigured by spina bifida, and a runaway teenage girl-brought together in a noir unlike any you've ever read. Violent, melancholy, bitterly humorous, Night Kills is a 'relationship' novel of the classic mould. As disturbing and sad a crime novel as I've ever read. "--Cemetery Dance.
"I rate Gorman as highly as Crumley, Ellroy and James Lee Burke." --Scotland On Sunday.

Ed Gorman is one of the founding editors of one of the world's premiere crime fiction magazines Mystery Scene--and has- over thirty novels and countless short stories to his credit. He is acknowledged as the leading exponent of 'dark suspense'- the fusion of noir crime fiction with the sense of unease of horror fiction. Ed currently has three books in production as movies and an NBC Movie of the Week about to be screened!