"I don't know anything about solving crimes. I just make things up." So says mystery writer Leopold Longshanks. But somehow true crime keeps finding him and, reluctantly, he keeps getting involved. In these thirteen stories by award-winning author Robert Lopresti, he investigates murders, con games, his own mugging, a kidnapped horse, and the theft of a first edition of The Maltese Falcon. Oh, and his own murder. Fortunately, that killing turns out to be fictional.

Shanks on Crime

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Lopresti, Robert

Mystery

Village Books

Erroneous government-generated "data" is more problematic than it would appear. This book demonstrates how women's history has consistently been hidden and distorted by 200 years of official government statistics.
Much of women's history has been hidden and filtered through unrealistic expectations and assumptions. Because U.S. government data about women's lives and occupations has been significantly inaccurate, these misrepresentations in statistical information have shaped the reality of women's lives. They also affect men and society as a whole: these numbers influence our investments, our property values, our representation in Congress, and even how we see our place in society. This book documents how U.S. federal government statistics have served to reveal and conceal facts about women in the United States. It reaches back to the late 1800s, when the U.S. Census Bureau first listed women's occupations, and forward to the present, when the U.S. government relies on nonprofit groups for statistics on abortion.
Objective and accurate, When Women Didn't Count isn't focused on numbers and census results as much as on recognizing problems in data, exposing the hidden facets of government data, and using critical thinking when considering all seemingly authoritative sources. Readers will contemplate how the government decided that a "farmer's wife" could be a farmer, how the ongoing battle over abortion has been reflected in the numbers the government is allowed to keep and publish, the consequences of the Census Bureau "correcting" reports of women in unusual occupations in 1920, and why the official count of women-owned businesses dropped 20 percent in 1997.
 • Provides new ways of thinking about the history of women in the United States
• Examines the systems used to gather and publish federal statistics, identifying their strengths, weaknesses, and biases
• Demonstrates the need for applying critical thinking skills even when examining assumedly trustworthy statistics from official sources
• Reveals how details of women's lives in the United States have been erased or disguised in data that is considered authoritative and reliable

When Women Didn't Count: The Chronic Mismeasure and Marginalization of American Women in Federal Statistics

History

Americas

Praeger

Sal Caetano is a happy man. He’s the brains behind a New Jersey Mafia family and he expects to be made the boss soon. But everything changes on the night his first grandchild is born and he hears a news report claiming that by the time she grows up climate change will have wrecked the world. For Sal this is unacceptable and he decides to use all of his Mafia skills to save the environment. Hey, how hard can it be? Pretty hard, it turns out. Turns out the mob doesn’t want to change. Neither do the politicians he talks to. Soon Sal is fighting for his life with rivals inside and outside his own family; not to mention the FBI which holds a grudge against him. And all he wants to do is save the world… GREENFELLAS is a comic crime novel with issues. 
 ROBERT LOPRESTI was raised in New Jersey, where the book is set. He is now an environmental science librarian in the Pacific Northwest. His fifty-plus short stories have won the Derringer Award (twice), as well as the Black Orchid Novella Award, and been nominated for the Anthony Award. He is also the author of SUCH A KILLING CRIME and SHANKS ON CRIME.

Greenfellas

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Dark Oak Mysteries

Crimes Against Nature: New Stories of Environmental Villainy

Short Stories & Anthologies

Down & Out Books

The first Black Cat Mystery Magazine of 2022 presents 12 original tales by top mystery authors. Included this time are: 
DEAD RECKONING, by Leone Ciporin 
THE MAN FROM TOPEKA, by Robert Lopresti 
VICE COP, by Elizabeth Zelvin 
THE WHITE CALF AND THE WIND, by Mike Adamson 
ANNIE, by Anita Murphy 
SANITY CLAUSE, by Max Devoe Talley 
THE BORSCHT BELT BURGLARY, by Marlin Bressi 
THE FIRST ANNUAL ATCHAFALAYA COYOTE HUNT, by O’Neil De Noux 
A REMOTE CHANCE, by David Rudd 
MINERVA JAMES AND THE HOUNDS OF HADES, by Mark Bruce 
A WALK IN THE PARK, by Lis Angus 
MUDBOUND, by Veronica Leigh 
Classic reprint:: "The Sleeper Caper," by Richard S. Prather 
Edited by Michael Bracken

Black Cat Mystery Magazine #11

Adamson, Mike

Zelvin, Elizabeth

Ciporin, Leone

Murphy, Anita

Talley, Max DeVoe

Bressi, Marlin

De Noux, O’Neil

Angus, Lis

Leigh, Veronica

Wildside Press

From Cold Spring Harbor in 1971 to River of Dreams in 1993, Billy Joel released a dozen studio albums that remade the face of American pop music, produced twenty-six Top 10 singles (on Billboard's Top 100 and Adult Contemporary charts), and earned the Piano Man six Grammys. Although he hasn't released a recording of new songs in almost thirty years, Joel's live performances continue to electrify audiences around the globe-and until COVID-19 put things on hold he had sold out New York's Madison Square Garden for a record-shattering seventy-four consecutive monthly shows! In this collection, twelve award-winning writers of short crime fiction tackle the Joel catalog, and the result-edited by Josh Pachter, whose The Beat of Black Wings: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Joni Mitchell earned rave reviews in 2020-is a journey down life's mean streets with a soundtrack by one of the great singer-songwriters of our time, and contributors Michael Bracken, Jeff Cohen, David Dean, John M. Floyd, Barb Goffman, James D.F. Hannah, Richard Helms, Robert Lopresti, Jenny Milchman, Terrie Farley Moran, Richie Narvaez, and Pachter himself are donating a third of their royalties to support the work of the Joel Foundation. In the Gospel According to Billy, only the good die young. Within these pages, though, Death is an equal-opportunity exterminator, and the stories you'll find here don't just hit the charts: they go all the way to Number One ... with a bullet!

Only the Good Die Young: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Billy Joel

Milchman, Jenny

Bracken, Michael

Cohen, Jeff

Floyd, John M.

Pachter, Josh

Goffman, Barb

Dean, David

Farley Moran, Terrie

Untreed Reads

A Night at the Opera, A Day at the Races, Duck Soup, Animal Crackers…over the two decades between 1929’s The Cocoanuts and 1949’s Love Happy, the Marx Brothers—Groucho, Harpo, Chico, and sometimes Zeppo—entertained movie-goers around the world with their madcap antics, rapid-fire dialogue, and prowess on the piano, the harp, and in song. 
Now, a Who’s Who of award-winning crime writers pays homage to the Marxes in fourteen short stories, each inspired by one of the brothers’ thirteen studio films. (Wait a second: fourteen stories inspired by thirteen films? How does that add up? You'll find the answer to that question…and so much more!...inside the covers of this book.)\nThe authors? Donna Andrews, Frankie Y. Bailey, Jeff Cohen, Lesley A. Diehl, Brendan DuBois, Terence Faherty, Barb Goffman, Joseph Goodrich, Robert Lopresti, Sandra Murphy, Robert J. Randisi, Marilyn Todd, Joseph S. Walker, and editor Josh Pachter, who is a recent recipient of the Short Mystery Fiction Society’s Golden Derringer Award for Lifetime Achievement and the editor of two previous “inspired by” anthologies from Untreed Reads, The Beat of Black Wings: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Joni Mitchell and Only the Good Die Young: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Billy Joel.\nTo paraphrase Groucho: Outside of a dog, this book will be your best friend. (Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.)

Monkey Business: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Films of the Marx Brothers

DuBois, Brendan

TODD, Marilyn

Randisi, Robert J.

Murphy, Sandra

Walker, Joseph S.

Diehl, Lesley A.

Mystery Magazine: October 2022: Double Issue (Mystery Weekly Magazine Issues)

Mallory, Michael

Vaughan, Ralph E.

Nayman, Ira

Bailen, Mark S

Maughan, Greg

Heckman, Bryce

Riffel, James

Buck, Mara

Independently published

Mystery Magazine: May 2022 (Mystery Weekly Magazine Issues)

Barrows, Brandon

McGuire, Michael

Harris, Bruce

Lawton, R.T.

Orloff, Alan

Watkins, Linda

Death of a Bad Neighbour - Revenge is Criminal

Hockensmith, Steve

Davidson, Hilary

Quigley, Kevin

Tyler, L.C.

Manzolillo, Nick

Zeltserman, Dave

Moore, Warren

Calverley, Jack

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