Deeds of Darkness

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>This guy has a wonderfully twisted mind! Buckle up for a scary ride. - Peter James International bestselling crime thriller author</strong></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(166 166 166 1)>Deeds of Darkness</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(166 166 166 1)> is the best short fiction by award-winning author William Burton McCormick. A collection of twenty-four globetrotting stories of suspense mystery crime espionage horror and historical genres from the pages of </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(166 166 166 1)>Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine The Saturday Evening Post</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(166 166 166 1)> </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(166 166 166 1)>Mystery Magazine</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(166 166 166 1)> and elsewhere. </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(166 166 166 1)>Deeds of Darkness</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(166 166 166 1)> includes stories nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award Shamus Award Thriller Award and five Derringer Award-nominated stories. Also included are two unabridged novellas Demon in the Depths which finished second in the </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(166 166 166 1)>Ellery Queen's</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(166 166 166 1)> Readers' Poll for 2021 and House of Tigers named to the Honor Roll for both the Black Orchid Novel Award and the Mysterious Bookshop's </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(166 166 166 1)>Best Mystery Stories of 2023</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(166 166 166 1)>. </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(166 166 166 1)>Deeds of Darkness</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(166 166 166 1)> takes readers from���war-torn Eastern Europe to gangster America and deep below the frozen seas of the Arctic Ocean. From modern tales of crime to World War II espionage to ghost stories in shadowy Odessa and murder in Ancient Rome every flavor of suspense and adventure awaits within.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>McCormick is one of the most inventive and original writers currently working in the mystery short story field. - Janet Hutchings Editor-in-Chief <em>Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine</em></strong></p>