title: From Crime to Crime: Mind-Boggling Tales of Mystery and Murder
author: First Last
description: "Then what are we left with?" Bill asked.<br /> Mark smiled. "D'Amato's knife magically left his belt, found its way into a sealed hidden closet, and stabbed Tommy Slick to death. All this in a matter of seconds, in front of witnesses."<br /> --from The <i>Smart Guys Marching Society</i><br />
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  Who’s more dangerous: the hangman who enjoys his work a bit too much, his
  beautiful daughter, who challenges his every move? Who’s more deadly: the
  Irish thug whose one dream is to live in Brooklyn, or the short-tempered
  “friend” he meets while in prison? What’s more block, or the strange but
  effective cure for it?
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  These are just three of the puzzles whose solutions you’ll discover as you
  thrill through the pages of this anthology of new British mystery fiction.
  You’ll find more than two dozen riveting stories of crime and deceit by both
  well-known writers and brilliant, newcomers.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  A number of stories are set in the past, ranging from the medieval age (Peter
  Tremayne’s effectively eerie “The Banshee”) to the England of the 1980s (Val
  McDermid’s gritty, streetwise “Four Calling Birds”).
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  A pair of stories unfold in Dickens’s time, one revealing a previously unknown
  episode in the life of his Ta