Marvin Kaye

Since 1977, The Wolfe Pack has published "The Gazette," chockful of articles and tales of America's greatest sleuth, Nero Wolfe, who prefers beer and orchids to working at his West 35th Street brownstone. But thanks to Wolfe's wisecracking associate Archie Goodwin and his agent REX STOUT, Wolfe's seventy-two cases are mystery classics. NERO WOLFE: THE ARCHIE GOODWIN FILES is a new selection of Neronian delights carefully picked from over twenty-five years of The Gazette by veteran anthologist, novelist, and charter member of The Wolfe Pack Marvin Kaye.

Adventure into Whimsey with Hilarious Travels and Hysterical Travails. Be dragged along with our Nameless Hero through the snows of Siberia, the frigid waters of sundry oceans, deserts, desserts, forests and fantastical locations real and imagined around the cosmos. With improbable situations and tortuous tangents becoming more and more absurd along the way, you will laugh out loud (and likely groan) all along the way. In this fabulous and fanciful telling of the infamous shaggy dog story "Siberian Peach Pie," Yr. Humble Piescribe, award winning author Marvin Kaye, uses an inspired montage of literary styles, homages, and esoteric references to ingeniously mince together anecdotes, jokes, puns and uncanny states of affair into a frothy shaggy dog stew.With whimsical illustrations by Marc Bilgrey, this book is one you will cherish for as long as you live. Or at least until you finish reading it. Consume the delightful confection that is The Quest For The Pastried Peach and be warped, twisted and swept away in jocularity."A whirlwind of ingenious nonsensica." -Jon Koons MARVIN KAYE is the author of nineteen novels, including The Hillary Quayle Mysteries series, The Marty Gold Mysteries series, The Masters of Solitude trilogy (coauthored with Parke Godwin), and the SF cult classic, The Incredible Umbrella series. Among his other titles are his Dickensian pastiche, The Last Christmas of Ebenezer Scrooge, The Passion of Frankenstein, as well as the terrifying Fantastique.His numerous best-selling anthologies include 13 Plays of Ghosts and the Supernatural and other theatre collections; The Game is Afoot and other Sherlock Holmes anthologies, and many fantasy/science fiction books for the Science Fiction Book Club, such as Ghosts, Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural, The Vampire Sextette, and The Fair Folk, which won the World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology of 2006. Thanks to permission from The Rex Stout Estate, he has written more than twenty new Nero Wolfe mystery stories and is working on more. He is the editor of Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine, and both editor and co-publisher of America's oldest supernatural periodical, Weird Tales magazine (dating back to 1923 )As an actor/director, he is Artistic Director of The Open Book, New York's oldest readers theatre ensemble. He has appeared on and off Broadway; and as a magician has performed around the country.And he really, really wants you to buy this book. And possibly all of his others.

Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine #23 features the best in contemporary and classic mystery fiction, with a great linup of crimes and columns. Here are: Features: From Watson's Notebook, by John H. Watson, M. D. Ask Mrs Hudson, by (Mrs) Martha Hudson Non Fiction: Screen of the Crime, by Kim Newman Sherlock Holmes--in the Cards, by Gary Lovisi Fiction: THE BABIES IN THE BLIZZARD, by Archie Goodwin TOO MANY POLITICIANS, by Henry W. Enberg DEATH BY WATER, by Steve Liskow GHOSTS OF THE PAST, by Laird Long STRIKEOUT, by Dan Andriacco THE COP WHO LIKED GILBERT AND SULLIVAN, by Robert Lopresti THE TERRIBLE TRAGEDY OF LYTTON HOUSE, by David Marcum THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER'S THUMB, by Sir Arthur Conan DoyleART & CARTOONS: Elena Betti (Front Cover) Cartoon by Marc Bilgrey

Brian Lumley, a Grand Master of Horror and author of the popular Necroscope(R) series, opens the collection with the tense "A Place of Waiting." The moors of Devon, England, are home to many ghosts, but none as fearsome as the red-eyed specter that refuses to accept his death. His only chance of release, however, comes at a terrible cost. Orson Scott Card puts a new spin on one of literature's most famous ghosts in "Hamlet's Father." What if the former King of Denmark was not killed by his treacherous brother for his crown, but by someone entirely unexpected as punishment for the darkest of crimes? Would his troubled son still seek revenge? The patrons of an Edinburgh tavern are introduced to a beverage with an unusual history in "The Haunted Single Malt" by Marvin Kaye, a clever and spooky tale about ghost stories and the people who love them. Tanith Lee offers "Strindberg's Ghost Sonata," a chilling story set in an alternate Russia. When a poor man is rescued from certain death by hospitable strangers, he discovers that he is not a guest in their haunted tenement building--he is a prisoner destined to become a sacrifice.

Kaye has crafted a sequel to Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol, " picking up the story of Ebenezer Scrooge and revisiting familiar characters such as Jacob Marley, Bob Cratchit, and others, in an intricate tapestry of the real and the supernatural, as the reformed Scrooge tries to satisfy a nagging feeling of something yet undone.

Professional magician Marvin Kaye presents tips and tricks that will not only guide readers in performing feats of magic, but will also show them how to turn clever stunts into entertaining and astounding presentations. Whether it's card tricks, mind reading, rope tricks, or sawing a good friend in half, Kaye provides pointers on showmanship, directing the audience's attention-and keeping them entertained. Sections include Fail-safe Magic, Essential Fingerwork, Stacking the Deck, In Search of a Personal Style, Putting Together an Act, Do's and Don'ts of Magical Entertainment, and many others.