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All Mystery/Suspense Short Stories

25 Most Recent Mystery/Suspense Short Stories

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'Friday The Thirteenths' by Arithmancy G
This year it was on the news about 2012 having 3 Friday the thirteenths and the one in January to the one in April were 13 weeks apart. Here is the full story..
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'The 11:11' by Arithmancy G
This is about the 11:11 that can be observed on a digital clock or watch and sometimes by other means. It is very strange to the ones it happens too...
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'The Smith Numbers by Arithmancy G
The first 13 Smith Numbers all total to the reduced number of 4 except 1 and it is 27/9. However a 9 when added to a 4 makes a 13. 202=2+2=4 and add the 9 and we have 13. Just about all my stories are about the Mystery of the 4..
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'The Two Jacks' by Arithmancy G
Coincidences?! Are some events past coincidences? Read this story and others (15) and determine if you, like I, think not, but believe by evidence......
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421311 by Eric Dalen
A detective has a one-night stand with a woman he meets in a bar, only to be investigating her murder the next morning. He has one clue -- a strange, cryptic tattoo on the victim's body. As the answers come into focus, he tries to find the right thing to do when everything's going wrong...
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A Barrel Of Rum by Brian Cross
On a hot, humid summer day a walk across Suffolk heathland produces unusual consequences..
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A Beautiful Village Under Water by Deep Rajvansh
This story is from one intresting chapter from my mystery fiction in which mystery under water. The name of the chapter is "A Beautiful Village Under Water" ..
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Read excerpt from A Case of Mistaken Identity A Case of Mistaken Identity by Phyllis Duncan
Is it a real threat or paranoia when a UN spy spots a suspicious character while dining out...
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A Champagné Adventure - May Day 2007 by Rene Remington
A feline's wisdom teaches me patience...
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A Creature of Habit by Larry Pontius
This story is included in the anthology, Secrets, Fact or Fiction?..
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A Cry For Help by Janice Scott
As the car sped off, I saw a woman in the back seat mouth “Help!” at me.....
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A Curious Encounter by Les Bill Gates
A mysterious woman with a strange past and even stranger cargo...
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A Desprate Mother Writes (Audrey Jackson's final letter to Louie Sandusky) by Sarah Tagert
Since you will find out soon enough from Louisa Mason, I will go ahead and tell you. I don’t plan to stay in this world...
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View Photo of A Few  Documented Ghost  Stories That Are Yet To Be Explained Read excerpt from A Few  Documented Ghost  Stories That Are Yet To Be Explained A Few Documented Ghost Stories That Are Yet To Be Explained by Victoria Murray
A selected collection of a few unexplained mystery stories that have been documented but have yet to be explained...
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A Friday 13th Mystery of the Dead Opossum by M. Saylor Billings
A look back at a youthful indiscretion on a particular Friday, a beloved family pet, and a dead opossum...
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View Photo of A Ghost's Retribution Read excerpt from A Ghost's Retribution A Ghost's Retribution by Cynthia Buhain-Baello
A true story of ghost sightings at my grandfather's house brought forth by a family conflict of greed, deception, and revenge...
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A Good Day by Henry Custer
Did you ever want to 'Kill the Boss'? For most of us it is just a fantasy.....
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A Grand Murder Chapter 1 by Stacy Verdick Case
The first chapter of the first book in the Catherine O'Brien series A Grand Murder...
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A Kings' Whim by Mr. Shannon Clements
A man discovers that he is related to royalty only to uncover a plot to take out him and his family...
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A letter from a Stranger (To Louie Sandusky) by Sarah Tagert
A shocking turn of events. ..
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A Letter From Deborah Alexander(concerning Audrey Jackson) by Sarah Tagert
Distrubing news from an unlikely source comes concerning Audrey Jackson. ..
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A Little Justice by Steve Rylor
Alonso Duke made the call to his casting director. Afterward he didn’t feel as much pain of conscious and guilt as he thought he would. And why should he? His wife was cheating on him and the fact that he was now a paraplegic did not make it right. Well, she could have the role her little heart desi..
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A Mystery Short by Patricia Ebron
A Mystery Short...a work in progress..
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A Mystery To Me by Allen Wiener
Why I love mysteries and can't get my fill of them...
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A Narrow Escape by Claire Perez Ekman
Rebecca grew up without knowing her parents, but strange occurrences will lead her to a surreal adventure - or at least its beginning. ..
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A New Way to Die by Carla Bonnell-Rickard
There is more than one way to die..
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A Night On The Dump Hills by Paul Mc Cann
Story about my village and some of the goings on I remember as a child ..
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A Note Before Dying, Part Eight by Adam Cole
Musicologist Mara Solomon is investigating a clue from the murder of her friend, the famous harpist Lynn Adastra. It's a piece of music that seems to be written for the harp, yet is impossible for the harp to play...
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A Note Before Dying, Part Four by Adam Cole
While at the police station to file a report, Musicologist Mara Solomon is struck by the sound of music. Convinced that something is wrong with the music she's hearing, she voices her suspicions to Detective Randle...
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A Note Before Dying, Part One by Adam Cole
Mara Solomon is a musicologist, not a detective. She has no idea that she's about to take on the murder case of her best friend. ..
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A Note Before Dying, Part Seven by Adam Cole
Mara Solomon is a musicologist who has been asked to help solve a mystery involving the death of her friend, the celebrated harpist Reanne Adastra. The only clue is a piece of music left at the scene, a hand-written composition seemingly composed by Adastra. But the piece seems random and out of c..
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A Note Before Dying, Part Six by Adam Cole
In her first visit to the Decatur Police, Musicologist Mara Solomon established herself as a reliable and knowledgable source of information about a crime. Now Detective Randle has called her back to the station. Is Dr. Solomon a suspect?..
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A Note Before Dying, Part Ten by Adam Cole
Mara Solomon is trying to solve the mystery of the murder of her friend, the harpist Reanne Adastra. Even though she'd rather be out looking for clues, Mara is forced to deal with irritating people in her life who make demands on her...
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A Note Before Dying, Part Three by Adam Cole
Mara has gone to the police station to help her friend file a report, and she hears music playing. As a musicologist, something about the music is bothering Mara a lot...
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A novel, Chapter one, temporarily discontinued by ROCK-Salt! Proctor
Due to the amount of travel that has come up since I started this, I'm going to have to stop it all together for a while, as the time , and proximity, won't allow for it. Thanks for your patience, I do hope to continue it early next year,or before. Art..
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A peak at Adrenaline Junkies 2 by Craig Hartpence
New mystery/suspense thriller from the author Craig Alan Hartpence. EMS Chief Jason Holt returns to solve the mystery of the 1101 Club Murders. In his last adventure Jason had accidentally uncovered evidence of 5500 murders committed by someone in his paramedical ranks. He was unable ..
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A peek at a chapter of Adrenaline Junkies A Paramedic Nightmare by Craig Hartpence
This is preview of chapter 4 in the fiction mystery/thriller "Adrenaline Junkies" A Paramedic Nightmare. A page turner you won't forget. For reviews see B-n-N online bookstore...
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A Picture Of Her by Paul Mc Cann
A lifetime shared in good company ..
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A Question of Murder by Frances Pawley
Why does Miss Twigg continually acuse her neighbour of murdering his wife?..
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A Room At The Maldon Hotel by Paul Mc Cann
Short stay in a strange hotel brings a series of unexpected events ..
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A song for those in the future by James Abbey
A short story based on a real occurence that happend in 1985..
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A Still in the Night by Richard Kallao
original..
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A Time to Live by Adam Powers
Jane sits and awaits the death of the only man she's ever loved...she sits and watches the seconds tick by until.....
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A TRIAL OF ONE AND FINAL PARADOX by Mary Martin
Yesterday, I introduced you to the mad Dr. Robert Hawke in his bath. Today, we meet Norma Dinnick, that sweet old lady.....
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A Walk in the Woods by Maura Clegg
Reminding you that you never know what can happen when you go for a walk in the woods..
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Adrift by Laura Rittenhouse
A lonely night watch on a yacht adrift at sea..
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After The Final Judgement by Paul Mc Cann
A look at life in Hades ..
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Aiden Stone Marine by Raven Newcastle
Excerpt from The Body Hunters. Aiden Stone as a Marine...
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Aiden Stone's introduction from The Body Hunters by Raven Newcastle
Excerpt from The Body Hunters, Aiden Stone's introduction...
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All Things Slip Away (sequel to Scraps of Paper) by Kathryn Griffith
Ten years ago Frank Lester, a Chicago homicide detective, thought he had rid himself forever of the Mud People Killer who’d kidnapped and murdered six people. Frank had shot him as he’d fled through a snowy night; had killed him, he believed, though a body was never found. But the killer wasn’t..
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