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Impossible crime stories have been relished by puzzle-lovers ever since the invention of detective fiction.

A man is forbidden to uncover the secret of the tower in a fairy-tale castle by the Rhine. A headless corpse is found in a secret garden in Paris - belonging to the city's chief of police.

Four top historical romance novelists team up in this new collection to offer stories of love and romance with a twist of humor.

Romance is a delicate dance bound by rules and expectations in Regency England...Seven couples must navigate society's gauntlet to secure the hand of true love...

Whether or not you believe in fate, or luck, or love at first sight, every romance has to start somewhere.

Injured in a war that has stretched on for years, Sergeant John Peterson guards a lonely border.

Written in France toward the end of his career, these stories are Anton Chekhov's only attempt at the linked collection.

These fourteen stories by acclaimed poet Patricia Young explore the small victories and lurching disappointments, losses and betrayals of the everyday with a language and style that is tautly poeti

In a linked collection that presents the secret small tragedies of an Anglican congregation struggling to survive, All Saints delves into the life of Simon, the Reverend, and the lives of his paris

Now in its 47th year, 'Best Canadian Stories' has long championed the short story form and highlighted the work of many of the writers, throughout their respective careers, who have gone on to shap

At Dream Inc., a lifestyle-magazine publisher, people are struggling to do more than their jobs. They struggle to fall in love. They struggle to stay that way.

What are boys and men thinking? That's what the wry, observant, heartbroken and hilarious girls and women in these stories want to know.

In this sparkling collection of stories drawn from the surreal edge of life, playful irony vies with more poignant evocations of solitude, mortality, and the dawn of sexual awareness - all bodied f

What has to die before you force yourself to change? That's the question facing the always quirky and often-queer characters of Canary.

The fourth title in Biblioasis's Renditions Series, Century begins with the nightmare visions of a young woman named Jane Seymour, catching the reader up in a chronicle of the Seymour family that m