Eric Brown

Crime writer sleuth Donald Langham is invited to a remote Scottish castle to solve an intriguing mystery. It's the bitterly cold December of 1955, and Donald Langham has been asked by his friend, private detective Ralph Ryland, to assist him on a case. Ryland has been contacted by their old commanding officer, Major Cartwright, who has reasons to believe that his life is under threat at his remote castle in the Scottish Highlands. On arriving at the...

The theft of a painting takes crime-writer sleuth Donald Langham to a country house full of seething tensions, resentment and dark secrets. November, 1956. Lord Elsmere, an old friend of Donald Langham's literary agent, Charles Elder, is in a pickle – his favourite painting, a Gainsborough, has been stolen from under his nose. What's more, there's no evidence of a break-in. The family heirloom was recently re-insured for a hefty price, and Elsmere...

1950's Private Investigator Donald Langham discovers that truth is stranger than fiction when he investigates a murder on an American movie set. 1956. Having just started work as a professional private investigator, Donald Langham's first client is American movie star Suzie Reynard, currently shooting a murder mystery film at Marling Hall, an Elizabethan manor house in the depths of the Norfolk countryside. The film's director – Suzie's lover –...

Ed Bentley's wife has left him and he's been dropped by his publisher. Still, it's not the end of the world. All he has to do is ghost-write a science-fiction novel for Tuppy Cotton, a YouTuber young enough to be his daughter… When Ed uncovers an unearthly mystery at Tuppy's Yorkshire retreat, everything changes. The world might not be ending, but it will be turned upside down. Ace Doubles is Eric Brown's dazzling and moving tribute to his heroes:...

THE DISCIPLES OF APOLLO collects Eric Brown's finest short fiction, from the contemporary title story, in which the victims of a terrible malaise retreat to a sequestered island to see out their final months, to the far future of Dark Calvary, set on the dying world of Tartarus Major whose sun is about to go nova. Whether set is space of the future, or Earth of the here and now, Brown's stories are imbued with a passionate concern for the human condition...

When Matt Hendrick's daughter Sam is kidnapped by his ex-wife Maatje and the malign Dr Hovarth, Hendrick embarks on a quest to track her down and return her to Earth. His journey from planet to exotic planet takes him to . . .Fomalhaut IV . . . What he finds on the easy going backwater world is a bizarre religion and a race of aliens whose rituals promise to bring to dead back to life...Spica III . . . where Hendrick stumbles across a cult whose charismatic...

Stories Targets — Eric Brown Goddess with a Human Heart — Jeannette Ng The Pink Life(La Vie En Rose) — Nathan Susnik These Are the Ways — Premee Mohamed The Black Tide — Laura Duerr The Starchitect — Barry Charman Arthur Kovic's Days of Change — Michael Teasdale The Folger Variation — Chris Kelso SF Poetry by Lauren Harwyn, Louise Peterkin, Colin McGuire Cover — The Rescue of Sister, by Stephen Pickering Flash Fiction Competition Noise...

Discover The Maya History & How They Lived! This book's coverage begins with the development of the Maya through the ancient eras, starting with their founding in Belize as a hunter-gatherer society in the Pre-Classic Period all the way through the Classic and Post-Classic Period during which they had flourished into the civilization they are known for today. The Maya was composed of several city-states that spanned the area, all with soaring stone...

Discover The Byzantine Empire History From Start To Finish! If you asked someone today when the Roman Empire ended, they might tell you 476 CE, the year that the final Roman Emperor in the west died. If you had asked someone at the time though, they might have told you that Rome was still very much alive-in Constantinople. The Byzantines were not simply persistent Romans: they were their own distinct and long-lived society, both Roman and more. From...

Crime writer Donald Langham's agent asks for his help with a "delicate matter," but a case of blackmail turns into a series of murders and Langham has to use the skills he writes about to catch a killer.