The death of a TV reporter from a single bullet wound to the heart - a dramatic news story, an unsolved crime... and this time it's the man who fired the bullet who's asking all the questions. Michael Weston wants to know how come the police were on his tail so quickly. Read More...

Witch is a terrorist - one of the best - but this job is going to test even her to the very limit. This time her cold calculation may desert her just when she needs it most. Dominic Elder's hunch takes him from England to Europe and back... Read More...

Post-technological world short stories. Ballard at his inventive best. He writes with Dickensian zest, and doesn't skimp on plot and characterisation either. Read More...

It was from the office of his newspaper that Frank Spargo had strolled homeward early one morning, in that summer of 1912. Passing Middle Temple Lane, he became one of the first to see the corpse, and fell headlong into the search for the murderer. Read More...

Serpent in Eden. Or so it appears when a sultry exotic dancer named Eve is found strangled by her dancing partner, a sinuous python. Kramer and Zondi investigate. Read More...

Who would want to kill Hugo Swart, by all accounts a quiet civil employee and pious young bachelor? To Lieutenant Tromp Kramer and his Bantu assistant, Sergeant Mickey Zondi, the case looks straightforward: Swart's manservant did it. But there are no easy answers this time - only a growing conviction that the risks involved in nabbing Swart's killer may be greater than they ever imagined. Read More...

Murder with a bicycle spoke. A technique perfected by Bantu gangs... It looks like a flea bite. Theresa Le Roux was a pretty young music teacher, who gave very private lessons. But for a mix-up at the undertakers no one would have known she had been murdered. Read More...

'Murder was not altogether a bad thing', mused Lieutenant Kramer of the Trekkersburg Murder Squad. But this one was. A twelve-year-old boy is found strangled and hideously mutilated. It looks like the work of a sex killer. Read More...

At first, it looked much like any other dead body. Breathtaking in its own way, of course, but nothing special... Then he saw that it far exceeded his expectations. He saw the arm bones fractured by a knot that must have been tightened by nothing less than a giant of a man, a human gorilla ... Read More...

When Joe Corrigan awakens in a Pittsburgh hospital without any memory, he embarks ion a quest to recover his lost past. what he discovers is that his life no longer exists. As a director of a supersecret Oz Project, his job was to create a computerized environment virtually indistinguishable from reality. to test the effectiveness of his virtual world, he volunteered himself as one of its first human inhabitants. Read More...