Eric Flint's 1632 & Beyond Issue #20

In Tom Kidd's "Thunder and Ligthting," the famed Grantville Gumshoe, Detective Schinkenspeck and his crack team of super sleuths are hired by a mysterious playwright to provide security for an ill fated musical production plagued by sabotage. The villain's next act is murder and our courageous Gumshoe's beloved wife and partner Camilla is center stage for danger.

Bjorn' Hasseler's "Checkov, Schrodinger, Occam, and Murphy," NESS Security quarter-agent Regina Drehmännin and her friend Sunshine Moritz find a mysterious rifle abandoned on a quiet stretch of country road. They decide to get to the bottom of things only to find themselves drawn up in a dangerous conspiracy that defies popular philosophy!

Many things are more than they seem in "The Shell Game" by Marc Tyrrell, including a travel agency that is cover for an intelligence operation. Add in a secret code, a stolen briefcase, and a mysterious murder and you have a recipe worthy of Summer's Kitchen.

Newlywed spies Hildegard and Dominik combine their honeymoon with dangerous business in Erfurt in David Hankins' "The Gozmar Betrayel" as they track down a former member of their ranks who has gone rogue. Then a simple visit to a bakery turns everything upside down as their case morphs into a murder investigation.