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Trespasser
She was beautiful in black, and she came with a proposal: Pay $50,000. In return for this reasonable sum, she would guarantee her silence regarding a period of his life…
10 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 30, 2019
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Fletcher Flora
119 books11 followersFletcher Flora was born in Parsons, Kansas in 1914. Flora began writing soon after returning from World War II. His crime and mystery short stories and novels were published in magazines like Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Mr., Cosmopolitan, and in Alfred Hitchcock’s mystery anthologies. He received the Cock Robin Mystery Award for his first hard cover novel, Killing Cousins in 1960. Flora wrote over 150 short stories and 13 novels during his writing career. Three of his works are published under the house name, Ellery Queen. Timothy Harrison was also a pseudonym for his work, Hot Summer.
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January 14, 2026
“She was beautiful in black. Even climbing the hotel stairs, flight after long flight upward, she moved with ease and ineffable grace.”
Originally published in the September 1957 issue of Manhunt, Trespasser is a terrific little noir from the pen of Fletcher Flora. The novelette begins with an alluring woman in black heading up the stairs to a hotel room. Why isn’t she taking the elevator? We soon discover why, and a lot more, in a tale where not everything is as it first appears.
I don’t want to ruin this one for the reader by saying more, but it’s another classily shaded noir effort by Fletcher Flora, whose short stories and novelettes of mystery and noir always seemed a little smoother and a little classier than most. The back and forth between Mrs. Fenimore and Mr. Agnew builds up to a surprise twist the reader won’t see coming. There’s definitely a noir ending to this one, but a classy one; one worthy of a martini or two in a hotel lobby…
Another terrific short read from the always reliable Fletcher Flora.
Originally published in the September 1957 issue of Manhunt, Trespasser is a terrific little noir from the pen of Fletcher Flora. The novelette begins with an alluring woman in black heading up the stairs to a hotel room. Why isn’t she taking the elevator? We soon discover why, and a lot more, in a tale where not everything is as it first appears.
I don’t want to ruin this one for the reader by saying more, but it’s another classily shaded noir effort by Fletcher Flora, whose short stories and novelettes of mystery and noir always seemed a little smoother and a little classier than most. The back and forth between Mrs. Fenimore and Mr. Agnew builds up to a surprise twist the reader won’t see coming. There’s definitely a noir ending to this one, but a classy one; one worthy of a martini or two in a hotel lobby…
Another terrific short read from the always reliable Fletcher Flora.
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