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About Crimeucopia - Through The Past Darkly

It Was In The Year Of.... Historical/Period Crime short fiction ranging from Comfy Cosy, Period P.I.s, Narrative Crimes, Old fashioned NOIR, and a wealth of Crime sub-genres in between. 21 authors - Gary Thomson, Edward St. Boniface, Terry Wijesuriya, Frances Stratford, Dennis E. Delaney, Joan Leotta, Hope Hodgkins, Karen Odden, J. F. Benedetto, S. B. Watson, Hal Dygert, Merrilee Robson, John G. Bluck, David Hagerty, Avi Sirlin, Karl El-Koura, Penny Hurrell, Kai Lovelace, Maddi Davidson, J. Aquino and Kirk Landers - take you from 420 BC through to AD 1969, and give you a criminal history, laid out in a case by case Crimeucopia Crimeline. As with all of these anthologies, we hope you'll find something that you immediately like, as well as something that takes you out of your regular era comfort zone - and puts you into a completely new one. Because, in the spirit of the Murderous Ink Press motto: You never know what you like until you dust it off and read it.

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