Dave Zeltserman's Blog

 

Mike Stone, my PI in hell from Everybody Lives in Hell, is on yet another case. A soul hires Mike to find out if her daughter ended up in Hell, and this leads Mike on a twisty and twisted path, taking him into some Hell’s darkest recesses.

A quick note about Black Cat Weekly. This is a very cool and ambitious fiction magazine which is a mix of pre-1930s SF + mystery novels, short story reprints, and always at least 3 new short stories. It’s a great place to discover interesting pre-1950s writers that you might not have previously have ever heard about.

 

Over on my substack I write about Julius Katz's incomparable sidekick, Archie.

 

 

With Detectives and Spies on sale for $0.99, spend the holidays with Julius Katz, his sister Julia, Parker, a handful of demons that have escaped from Mike Stone’s private Hell, and of course, Archie.

 

Four J. Katzes

Three Morris Bricks

Two Mike Stones

and a special $0.99 deal for the holidays!

You might be asking yourself who is Frederic Austin? Well, he’s the gent who wrote The Twelve Days of Christmas, which I shamelessly borrowed from for this holiday promotion, as I’m offering my collection Detectives and Spies for $0.99 for the next week.

And yes, Detectives and Spies has four J. Katz mysteries (two Julius Katz mysteries and two Julia Katz spy/mystery stories, but all four have Archie!), three Morris Brick crime stories, and two Mike Stone, PI in Hell hard-boiled detective stories. 7 of the 9 stories are reprints from either Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, or Black Cat Weekly, but it also has the original stories Julius Katz and The Ruined Roast and James & Bond (A Morris Brick story), both written for this collection.

 

Buy today for $3.99 or read free with Kindle Unlimited!

 

The Sept/Oct issues of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine featured new Julius Katz stories that take place before Julius met Lily Rosten, and this post explains these new stories.

 

Available Nov. 12th.

I have a blogpost over on Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine's Trace Evidence where I write about my brilliant Boston-based detective Julius Katz and his erstwhile assistant Archie.

 

The first 45 chapters of my thriller The Coleridge Project are now up at davezeltserman.substack.com