And nothing revitalized the porn industry like the internet. Corporate espionage is only a shade younger than corporations.
And right on the heels of implementation often follows the disreputable element. If you think about it, he was fortunate to even make that.īecause there has never been an invention or discovery for which someone did not pay a price. In the end, he’s lucky enough just to break even. No sudden drop-off on Easy Street for him.
Even in the Disney animated flick, Aladdin’s wishes don’t bring him the happiness he thought he would receive. That’s what everyone tends to forget when reminiscing about the “grand olde days,” when magic was real and talking fishes still granted wishes for the low, low price of being returned to the water. Don’t need a permit, no license, and the IRS doesn’t even have a check-off box for the value returned from the djinn. On the surface, it sounds like such a great deal. Aladdin and his magic lamp, for instance. I suppose the quick and easy answer for this is to blame some of the old fables. After something happens that was easier than it should have been, someone will shrug and say, “Must have been magic.” Searching for the solution to a hard problem is described as “needing some magic.” And a windfall, a bonus, a lucky occurrence: “magical.” You hear it in conversations all the time. I’ve always been fascinated with the idea, apparently shared by so many people, that magic-if it does or could exist-would somehow make everything easier. She’s Not There copyright © 2009 by Steve Perry. Treasure copyright © 2009 by Leslie Claire Walker. RPG Reunion copyright © 2009 by Peter Orullian. The Wish of a Wish copyright © 2009 by Robert T. The Sweet Smell of Cherries copyright © 2009 by Devon Monk.Įye Opening copyright © 2009 by Jason Schmetzer.įaith’s Curse copyright © 2009 by Randall Bills. The True Secret of Magic, Only $1.98, Write Box 47, Portland, ORE. The Old Girlfriend of Doom copyright © 2009 by Dean Wesley Smith. The Best Defense copyright © 2009 by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.Ĭall of the Second Wolf copyright © 2009 by Steven Mohan, Jr. Witness to the Fall copyright © 2009 by Joseph E. If Vanity Doesn’t Kill Me copyright © 2009 by Michael A. The Hex Is In copyright © 2009 by Mike Resnick. Web Ginn House copyright © 2009 by Phaedra Weldon. Jeschonek, Peter Orullian, Leslie Claire Walker, Steve Perryįoreword copyright © 2009 by Loren L. Bick, Joe Edwards, Devon Monk, Jason Schmetzer, Randall N. Stackpole, JayLake, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Steven Mohan, Jr., Dean Wesley Smith, Ilsa J.
Martin H Greenberg, Loren L Coleman, Phaedra M. From a young woman who uses out-of-body excursions to research paranormal crimes to a bookie who's been paying for hex protection against magical interference to an artist who does divination through his sketched visions which may lead to a murderer's undoing, here are powerful tales of magical crimes and punishments.
Now, sixteen top tale-tellers offer fascinating new stories of those who commit magic crimes, those who investigate them, and those who prosecute them. When magic is used for criminal purposes, all sorts of ethical and logistical questions arise beyond the realm of everyday law and order. Sixteen original stories about magic-fueled crimes and those who investigate them Genre: thriller, Crime Spells Martin GreenbergĪn anthology of stories edited by Loren L Coleman and Martin H Greenberg