New detective fiction from the Wicked Company Writers Community
Edited by D.L. Browne and Kevin Burton Smith

The challenge was simple enough: we asked the members of the Wicked Company's crimewriters' group to write a private eye story.

Although some of them grumbled and groused at first that the restrictions of the P.I. genre were just too damn tight, you wouldn't know it by the sheer variety of submissions we received.

The seven original stories presented here, all bright and sparkly and seeing print for the first time, are by writers you probably haven't heard of before. But I'm willing to bet you'll be hearing plenty from some of them soon enough.

And, if you ask me, the writers presented here not only did the genre proud, but themselves as well. even better, I think they had fun rising to the challenge. And I think that sense of fun will become pretty obvious to you when you read the results...
(from the introduction by Kevin Burton Smith)

Featuring

• "Secret Smile" by Tribe
• "Night Bird" by Katie de Koster
• "Nothing To It" by Chris McKenzie
• "El Fraudito Chinito" by Barry Evetts
• "The Art of War" by Miles Archer
• "The Face of Iniquity" by Sharon Potthoff
• "Just One of Those Things" by D.L. Browne

WHAT THEY'RE SAYING

• "Down These Wicked Streets is ... long on quality. There's no flash fiction here... Instead, each of the seven stories presented... are all well-developed and richly textured, with a wealth of detail, evocative prose, and glib patter... It is to be hoped, by mystery and anthology fans alike, that Down These Wicked Streets represents just the first entry in a long line of Wicked Company Books."
  -- Jack Ewing, author of the mysteries Freak-Out and Kissing Asphalt

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