Black Cat Weekly #233

This issue, we have 10 great reads—a classic fantasy novel, a classic detective novel, original mysteries from Hal Charles, Gordon Linzner, and Dan Crosby, original fantasy and science fiction from John M. Floyd and Bud Pharo, classics from C.L. Moore and Clare Winger Harris, and a brand new solve-it-yourself puzzler from Hal Charles. Good stuff.

Here’s the complete lineup—

Cover Art by: Ron Miller

NOVELS

The Secret of the Old Clock, by Carolyn Keene [Nancy Drew series]

Nancy Drew’s first case—but not the Nancy you remember!

The Barge of Haunted Lives, by J. Aubrey Tyson

A classic mystery-fantasy novel…

SOLVE-IT-YOURSELF MYSTERY

“Murder Takes a Mortgage,” by Hal Charles

Can you solve the mystery before the detective? All the clues are there!

SHORT STORIES

“A Fish Story,” by Hal Charles

Two brothers, one stick of dynamite, and a pond full of bad ideas…

“Money Makes the Man,” by Gordon Linzner

A publisher dons his father’s mask to hunt New York’s elite criminals.

“Lost and Found,” by Dan Crosby [Constable Blair Kinney series]

While one son is lost at sea, another finds a fortune in the dark.

“Mutiny in the County,” by John M. Floyd

An unexpected participant does a ride-along with the police.

“Trust Fall,” by Bud Pharo

A routine retrieval on the moon turns into a deadly game of survival.

“Song in a Minor Key,” by C.L. Moore [Northwest Smith series]

Northwest Smith finds a rare moment of peace.

“The Artificial Man,” by Clare Winger Harris

A classic tale and among the first featuring a cyborg.