Best Selling Books by Carole Nelson Douglas

AWARD-WINNING STORIES from USA TODAY bestselling author Carole Nelson Douglas, featuring mystery icons Sam Spade and Edgar Allan Poe. Interior illustrations designed by the author. Noir urban fantasy paranormal investigator Delilah Street and iconic contemporary feline sleuth Midnight Louie team up for a trio of tales, including one based on an Edgar Allan Poe story fragment found after his death. From Sam Spade''s "black bird"--the priceless Maltese Falcon--to Poe''s "The Raven," Louie and Delilah keep up with their noted detective forebears. Stories published previously in anthologies are collected here for the first time: "Bogieman" from Unusual Suspects; "Butterfly Kiss" from The Mammoth Book of Vampire Romance 2; "The Riches That There Lie" from Poe''s Lighthouse.

"Midnight Louie is the funniest, hairiest, hard-boiled PI on the planet!" --Janet Evanovich "This extraordinarily unique mystery takes a delightfully unexpected twist and blends both of Douglas''s mystery series (Midnight Louie''s PI Feline Noir investigations and Delilah Street''s savvy Female Noir PI escapades) with favorite characters full of snappy noir banter and clever dialogue."--Kings River Life "Both of Douglas''s mystery series are spectacular. This new combination promises to delight and intrigue just as much."--Darque Reviews "a fresh and sassy voice, a hard-hitting noir urban fantasy heroine." --RT Book Reviews "a saucy style and delicious sense of humor." --The New York Times Magic, mayhem and murder collide! What happens in Vegas doesn''t stay in Vegas when a sexy nymph in a stage magic act vanishes...permanently. It''s just new girl in town Delilah Street''s luck to "appear" onstage right in time to be suspect Number One. But she has an investigative ace up her sleeve . . . Midnight Louie on the case. He''s BACK! After completing his adventuresome 28-book Alphabet-titled mystery series, Las Vegas feline PI Midnight Louie has snagged a savvy new gal partner, and she''s a PI fresh from a paranormal version of Louie''s Vegas that gives Oz a run for its money. Crime and detection are booming everywhere, and Louie and Delilah are the new rock-star team. Of course they get a little help from Louie''s favorite pro and amateur detecting friends, Matt and Temple, Max and Molina, Louie''s sassy daughter, Midnight Louise, and matriarch Ma Barker, the baddest Cat Pack runner off the Strip. Not to mention an unlikely trio of dogs, Louie''s least favorite species. New York Times Notable Book of the Year author Carole Nelson Douglas''s cast of four human crime solvers has shifted after petite PR powerhouse amateur sleuth and Louie''s faithful roommate, Temple Barr, marries ex-priest Matt Devine. Temple''s ex, that wily magician and counterterrorist. Max Kinsella. has hit a pause in his professional and personal life. Will he stick around Vegas and remain a confidential informant for hard-nosed homicide lieutenant Carmen Molina? Will Delilah adapt to a normal (if it ever was) Las Vegas? Now that it looks like paranormal Vegas mob bosses are making inroads on the current version, Louie must contend with some "gifted" dogs and Big Cats. Midnight Louie will ensure that there''s no rest for the wicked in a Las Vegas with a dark underground beneath the neon-lit Vegas Strip. JANET EVANOVICH calls Midnight Louie "the funniest, hairiest, hard-boiled detective on the planet." The Prime Suspect finds the series "everything you might want in a mystery: glitzy Las Vegas, real characters, suspense, a tough puzzle, and...on top of it all, a fine sense of humor and some illuminating social commentary." "Las Vegas''s feline detective extraordinary returns... Louie is an irresistible combination of Nathan Detroit and Sam Spade. Plenty of interest here for a lengthy, fun-filled series."--Mostly Murder "If it''s murder, it must be Midnight Louie time! Carole Nelson Douglas''s cool dude feline detective pulls off some fancy footwork when he matches wits with a murderer...Written with stylish zest and irresistible panache, this clever tale operates on a multiplicity of levels."--Melinda Helfer, RT Book Reviews 41/2 stars

Zorro...The Return of the Original Masked Avenger! For more than eight-seven years, Zorro has entertained and thrilled audiences around the world. Now, fans of the original masked avenger can enjoy this second volume of tales filled with danger, romance, and intrigue, thrilling to the further exploits of Zorro as he rides his faithful steed, Tornado, to defend the weak and battle the villains of Old California! In the fall of 2008, Moonstone Books and Editor Richard Dean Starr (Hellboy, Kolchak: The Night Stalker) were pleased to publish Tales of Zorro, the first collection of original Zorro short stories ever published. Now, Moonstone Books is proud to present More Tales of Zorro, the second anthology featuring all-new, original tales of The Fox! This groundbreaking compilation includes never-before-seen stories and essays from a fantastic lineup of today''s top writers including Alan Dean Foster, Timothy Zahn, Joe R. Lansdale, Keith R. A. DeCandido, Craig Shaw Gardner, Jennifer Fallon, Carole Nelson Douglas, and Henry Darrow.

Pistol-packing cardsharp Jill O''Rourke falls for a world-famous singer, and a lady from Kansas finds romance with Solitaire Smith, a card dealer with a mysterious past, in a romance set at the Crystal Phoenix Hotel in Las Vegas

IRENE ADLER . . . She''s one of the most mysterious women in literature, an American and the only woman to have outwitted the world''s greatest consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes.ON FILM . . . You''ve seen Irene Adler as the fetchingly treacherous minx paired with Robert Downey Jr.''s portrayal of Sherlock Holmes as an action hero and human calculating machine.You can see her as an apparently naked dominatrix in the BBC''s modern take on a young, totally wired Sherlock Holmes.Or you can read about her further adventures after she bested Holmes in "A Scandal in Bohemia," as written by New York Times Notable Book of the Year author Carole Nelson Douglas, author of the acclaimed Good Night,Mr. Holmes and seven other novels following the adventures of Irene Adler and Sherlock Holmes after "Scandal."This novella, "The Private Wife of Sherlock Holmes," reports the pair''s most recent and intriguing encounter in post-Jack the Ripper London, from Baker Street to a high society brothel. Shocking, my dear Holmes!According to the critics from the New York Times, Publishers Weekly and daily newspapers, Irene Adler as "the dashing heroine in Carole Nelson Douglas''s enchanting Victorian series" is "a Victorian age Ms. who blithely flouts conventions and triumphs in not one, but two careers0́4opera diva and detective" . . . "unconventional, irreverent, at least a century before her time0́4witty, competent, competitive, adventurous and like Holmes himself, fascinated with the curious and the criminal" . . . "the only woman Sherlock Holmes admired and indeed she lives up to the honor."REVIEWS:"I think Carole Nelson Douglas has told the exact truth about Ms. Adler, and whenever I reread "A Scandal in Bohemia" that truth will be part of the story for me." 0́4Chris Redmond, B.S.I., ASH in The Waterloo Sherlockian Letter."To capture the attention of the misogynistic and asexual Mr. Holmes, a woman would need to be quite remarkable, and Douglas''s Irene is beyond remarkable."0́4Mary Willis Walker in Mostly Murder"Douglas has made Adler a superb detective and invented a perfectly delightful0́4and perfectly puzzling0́4series of cases for her." 0́4Judy Alter in The Fort Worth Press"Plenty of Sherlockian deductions, even from Sherlock Holmes himself, who plays a good role in all the intrigue. But it''s Irene''s show all the way, and highly entertaining. You won''t be disappointed!"0́4Mostly Murder

Midnight Louie, the black tomcat detective with a nose for the notorious, returns in the ninth episode of Carole Nelson Douglas''s beloved series chronicling the follies of everyone''s favorite feline. Back in Las Vegas after a holiday trip to the Big Apple, Midnight Louie witnesses death on the Nile when the battling Egyptian barges outside the Oasis hotel bring a dead body to the surface. The soggy victim is well known to Louie''s redheaded, high-heeled human companion, Temple Barr: her two best beaux have been closely involved with the drowned man, and both have reasons to want him dead. Perhaps Temple can finally choose between handsome hotline counselor and ex-priest Matt Devine and the mysterious magician, Max Kinsella - by finding out which of her beaux is a killer. And then there are the new girls in town: an inscrutable lady magician named Shangri-La, who may play a bigger role in this scenario than anyone might think; and her winsome Siamese familiar, who may solve Louie''s problems by giving him the key to her heart - or the key to solving the mystery.

In this two volume collection, written especially for RT Booklovers Presents: The Haunted West, best-selling and award-winning authors take you on a time-traveling, spellbinding journey through America''s sprawling West. Over twenty all new tales, both contemporary and historical, weave a web of mystery, the supernatural, and romance. Join us for a passionate tour of the West, accompanied by ghosts, witches, shapeshifters, time-travelers, vampires, and a glimpse into the afterlife. Fall in love... in the Haunted West.