U.S. Crime Fiction and Short Stories

    Calamity Of Life The story of a man whose fate was reversed.  The story of a man who was fed up with his wife and wanted to get rid of her in any way. But when he got rid of his wife, a new revelation came to him. The story of the man whose hard work went in vain. At the same time, he was also guilty of a big crime.  S ome would fill in newspaper puzzles for mental entertainment and some would solve chess puzzles, Harry was similarly devoting his intelligence to devising new schemes to kill his wife. He had seen his wife perish in countless ways over the past few years. He would also plan to push his wife off the top of a mountain, sometimes by locking her in the garage and choking her to death, sometimes by pushing her down the basement stairs.  And sometimes saw him crushed under a speeding truck. Sometimes he would make plans to kill her by electrocuting her in the bathtub while she was taking a shower, and sometimes he would find ways to trick her into feeding her an entire via

 Try In Vain The story of a detective, who is tasked with finding a missing accountant.   My shoes hit his face like the bumpers of a railway engine. There was a sound of crunching bones and he fell lifelessly on the floor with a shrill scream. He had lost his beauty in no time. His nose was shriveled, the skin on his cheeks was split and his bones were showing.     P retty Wells was a killer who loved his beauty as much as his revolver, and the only use he had for private detectives was to put revolvers to their heads. It is obvious that in such a case what could be the use of your servant Shell Scott?   But one evening at four o'clock he entered my office in the Hamilton Building and said, "Put on your coat, Scott. You're out." It was an order.   I was looking at the tiny colorful fishes swimming in the small aquarium on top of my bookshelf at the time, so immediately I could only guess that there was some evil jerk behind me, but when I turned around, I recognized