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When it comes to murder at a convention of killers, everyone is a suspect.Husband and wife private investigators Jack and Annie Gardner are very good at their jobs. He's a one-handed demolitions expert and bomb disposal specialist. She's a former circus performer and a crack shot. Together they run Gardner Investigations.Joseph Mozzano is the former head of the Baltimore mob. When his grandson is murdered at a secret annual assassins' convention being held in Baltimore on the QT there is little he can do. He can't go to the cops and the man who runs the convention is too powerful for even his organization to take on. So he goes to the only one who can help--Jack Gardner, the man who years ago put him away.Jack and Annie reluctantly agree to go undercover among the professional murderers using his skills with explosives and hers with guns to pose as killers. It may be the toughest case of their careers.Death is but a dance away at THE ASSASSINS' BALL"The Assassins' Ball is a delightful tongue-in-cheek romp reminiscent of a modern-day Thin Man adventure. Jack and Annie Gardner are the new 'first couple' of mystery and suspense." --Michael A. Black, author of Chimes at Midnight and the Executioner series.Praise for previous books by Patrick Thomas & John L. French"Bullets and Brimstone by Patrick Thomas & John L. French is a very entertaining paranormal mystery that showcases the writing prowess of both authors to their utmost... it is packed with enough page-turning suspense and LOL humorous writing to make it well worth buying and adding to your reading list." --Douglas R. Cobb, Bestsellersworld.com"From the Shadows... the writing is top notch, the plots exciting, and the characters are fun. This is the best new pulp I've read in years, and hope the authors return with these characters in more adventures." --Tom Johnson, Pulp Den"Tales from the Pulpside delivers what it promises and then some. Guaranteed to entertain any true pulp fan and hopefully help recruit many new ones along the way. We would truly love to see more like this." --Ron Fortier, Pulp Fiction ReviewsPATRICK THOMAS is the author of over thirty books including the Murphy's Lore fantasy humor series, Startenders, the Dear Cthulhu advice columns and books and a host of paranormal mysteries that include Fairy Rides the Lightning, Dead to Rites, Lore & Dysorder and the Mystic Investigators series including Once More Upon A Time. His books have been spotted on the CSI television show and his Fairy with a Gun was optioned for film and TV by Laurence Fishburne's Cinema Gypsy Productions. Patrick's website is www.patthomas.net.JOHN L. FRENCH has worked for over thirty years as a crime scene investigator and has seen more than his share of murders, shootings and serious assaults. As a break from the realities of his job, he writes science fiction, pulp, horror, fantasy, and, of course, crime fiction. His books include The Devil of Harbor City, Past Sins, Souls on Fire, Here There Be Monsters and Paradise Denied. John is the editor of Bad Cop, No Donut, Mermaids 13: Tales of the Sea, and To Hell in a Fast Car: On the Road to Death and Disaster.The Assassins' Ball is John and Patrick's fourth book together. The others are the pulp era book From the Shadows and the paranormal mysteries Rites of Passage and Bullets & Brimstone.

When it comes to murder at a convention of killers, everyone is a suspect.Husband and wife private investigators Jack and Annie Gardner are very good at their jobs. He's a one-handed demolitions expert and bomb disposal specialist. She's a former circus performer and a crack shot. Together they run Gardner Investigations.Joseph Mozzano is the former head of the Baltimore mob. When his grandson is murdered at a secret annual assassins' convention being held in Baltimore on the QT there is little he can do. He can't go to the cops and the man who runs the convention is too powerful for even his organization to take on. So he goes to the only one who can help--Jack Gardner, the man who years ago put him away.Jack and Annie reluctantly agree to go undercover among the professional murderers using his skills with explosives and hers with guns to pose as killers. It may be the toughest case of their careers.Death is but a dance away at THE ASSASSINS' BALL"The Assassins' Ball is a delightful tongue-in-cheek romp reminiscent of a modern-day Thin Man adventure. Jack and Annie Gardner are the new 'first couple' of mystery and suspense." --Michael A. Black, author of Chimes at Midnight and the Executioner series.Praise for previous books by Patrick Thomas & John L. French"Bullets and Brimstone by Patrick Thomas & John L. French is a very entertaining paranormal mystery that showcases the writing prowess of both authors to their utmost... it is packed with enough page-turning suspense and LOL humorous writing to make it well worth buying and adding to your reading list." --Douglas R. Cobb, Bestsellersworld.com"From the Shadows... the writing is top notch, the plots exciting, and the characters are fun. This is the best new pulp I've read in years, and hope the authors return with these characters in more adventures." --Tom Johnson, Pulp Den"Tales from the Pulpside delivers what it promises and then some. Guaranteed to entertain any true pulp fan and hopefully help recruit many new ones along the way. We would truly love to see more like this." --Ron Fortier, Pulp Fiction ReviewsPATRICK THOMAS is the author of over thirty books including the Murphy's Lore fantasy humor series, Startenders, the Dear Cthulhu advice columns and books and a host of paranormal mysteries that include Fairy Rides the Lightning, Dead to Rites, Lore & Dysorder and the Mystic Investigators series including Once More Upon A Time. His books have been spotted on the CSI television show and his Fairy with a Gun was optioned for film and TV by Laurence Fishburne's Cinema Gypsy Productions. Patrick's website is www.patthomas.net.JOHN L. FRENCH has worked for over thirty years as a crime scene investigator and has seen more than his share of murders, shootings and serious assaults. As a break from the realities of his job, he writes science fiction, pulp, horror, fantasy, and, of course, crime fiction. His books include The Devil of Harbor City, Past Sins, Souls on Fire, Here There Be Monsters and Paradise Denied. John is the editor of Bad Cop, No Donut, Mermaids 13: Tales of the Sea, and To Hell in a Fast Car: On the Road to Death and Disaster.The Assassins' Ball is John and Patrick's fourth book together. The others are the pulp era book From the Shadows and the paranormal mysteries Rites of Passage and Bullets & Brimstone.

Dr. Watson is dead... Long live Dr. Watson There's a new Dr. Watson working alongside Sherlock Holmes... And Dr. Jane Watson plans to do her late father and her godfather Sherlock proud. In partnership with Sherlock Holmes, Jane Watson has to solve murders and mysteries involving a choice between love and money, a European crime boss who is a master of disguise, and a ghost haunting. Then Jane is called upon by King and Country to lend her skills to solve a crime for a foreign power.It seems there's been a vampire murdered at Castle Dracula and King Vlad will accept no one less than the protege of Sherlock Holmes, the only man to have ever bested Dracula, to solve it.Despite Sherlock Holmes's misgivings, Jane Watson sets out on a Transylvanian airship. Along the way, she encounters Martian technology, a werewolf seeking asylum in Transylvania, a transformed Moriarty, the creature known as Adam Frankenstein, a council of vampires, and King Dracula himself. But will Jane be able to solve a crime that may have been committed by those whose powers rewrite the definition of impossible? And if she can't, what will Dracula do?Nobody ever said following in Sherlock Holmes's footsteps as a Detective of the Abyss would be simple. The game is afoot and the Abyss will never be the same

2 FANTASTIC BOOKS IN 1 DELUXE OMNIBUS EDITION RITES OF PASSAGEBefore they can save the world, they must first save each other. Barton Karver was once The Carver, a man possessed by a demon and forced to commit horrific murders. Now exorcised of the monster inside him, Karver has joined the Department of Mystic Affairs, trying to atone for the crimes he was forced to commit. Bianca Jones knows there is evil in the world. One of her first cases as a detective for the Baltimore Police Department involved a family slaughtered by The Carver. Now to keep her city safe from the things that lurk in the shadows, she hunts monsters both human and otherwise for the BPD. Bianca and Karver meet at the DMA Academy. Will Karver be able to keep his dark past a secret from the suspicious detective? What will Bianca do if she learns the truth? And when the time comes, will the two be able to work together - first to rescue a child and then to save the world?DEAD TO RITESWhen Darkness Falls... The DMA Picks Up The Pieces. After battling the demon serial killer within him, the Department of Mystic Affairs offers Karver a chance at redemption as a federal agent. With his empath partner Mandi Cobb, they protect and serve the innocent, by taking on zombie raisers, a twisted faerie kidnapper, a mage's hidden heart, Lovecraftian horrors, a nexus of evil so vile the president has considered using a nuclear option on American soil, those who make deals with the devil and use children's faces to do their evil, the beast with two backs, and Karver's own past.

Omnibus of From The Shadows and BulletsBrimstone paranormal mysteries.