About this ebook
Beatlemania is alive and well in this collection of short crime fiction inspired by songs from the Beatles's seventeen studio albums. With mysteries by award-winning British crime authors Martin Edwards, Kate Ellis, Paul Charles, Vaseem Khan, Christine Poulson, Marilyn Todd, and Tom Mead as well as popular American crime writers John Copenhaver, Michael Bracken, John M. Floyd, David Dean, Joseph S. Walker, and Robert Lopresti, Happiness Is a Warm Gun contains seventeen original mysteries. Inspired by lyrics from such classic Beatles songs as "Can't Buy Me Love," "Ticket to Ride," "Eleanor Rigby," and many more, the stories included take you on a magical mystery tour of the Beatles' legendary catalog of music, making this anthology a must-read for both Beatles fans and mystery lovers alike.
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About the author
JOSH PACHTER is an author, editor, and translator. More than 140 of his short stories have appeared in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, and elsewhere, and he wrote the traditional whodunit Dutch Threat and the mystery for younger readers First Week Free at the Roomy Toilet. He's edited anthologies inspired by the songs of Joni Mitchell, Jimmy Buffett, Billy Joel, Paul Simon, Stephen Sondheim, Lyle Lovett, the Beatles, and by the films of the Marx Brothers. His work has won two Derringer Awards and been a finalist for the Edgar, Anthony, Agatha, Thriller, Macavity, Lefty, and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine Reader Awards. He was the 2020 recipient of the Short Mystery Fiction Society's Golden Derringer for Lifetime Achievement. joshpachter.com
