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Here are links to six of Wohlforth’s short stories archived on the some of the best mystery and crime fiction sites on the web. The protagonists include PI Jim Wolf, Crip & Henrietta, a campus policeman, an RVing retiree and his dog, and a New England professor. Read them on line or download them for personal use. While on these sites check them out for a feel what is now available in short mystery fiction on line.

A Clean Well-Lighted Place For Murder: (An Homage To Ernest Hemingway). The clean well-lighted place in this story is a coffeeread Wohlforth's work right here on the web house opposite the University of California Berkeley Campus. Night after night a campus cop comes after his shift to sip a latté and observe a Hawaiian co-ed. Yet he never speaks to her. Then one evening a car passes, a shot is fired. Enjoy this story at Shred Of Evidence.

The Concert. Will flees for his life in a snowstorm. "I could see the eyes of the hellhounds. They snarled, exposing their fangs. Frozenread Wohlforth's work right here on the web smoke puffed out of their open mouths." How did he end up in this predicament? It all began innocently enough. Will and his wife attend the annual Christmas Concert in their small New Hampshire college town. He sits next to beautiful twins. He begins an affair with one of them. Then….  Enjoy this story at Mysterical-E

Emma and I. Our protagonist, accompanied by Emma, his Bichon Frise companion, drives his small RV into an isolated desertedread Wohlforth's work right here on the web campground. One last adventure for the season. He is not alone for long. A battered pick-up with a Six-Pak camper on the back pulls in. A man and a woman. Drunk. A fight. Then a knock on the RV’s door. Enjoy this story at Hardluck Stories

read Wohlforth's work right here on the webKiller Fog. Jack London Square is shrouded in a thick suffocating fog the night PI Jim Wolf agrees to protect a young woman who hasthe largest deep brown eyes he has ever seen.... Time: 17:20 / $0.88read Wohlforth's work right here on the web

L'il Joe's Blues . Set back in the time when rock & roll was born while the blues still survive, a college boy confronts a killer while L'il Joe plays on and on.... Time: 12:18 / $0.88

Port Of Missing Men. Jim Wolf returns to his hometown in Connecticut to visit his father who has succumbed to Alzheimer’s. As heread Wohlforth's work right here on the web struggles to find his father lost now in the twisted maze of his demented mind, he uncovers an old murder. And a dark secret behind the prosperity of the town. Enjoy this story at Thrilling Detective

What Ever Happened To Chuck? Jim Wolf attends a reunion at a Massachusetts progressive boarding school. He felt compelled toread Wohlforth's work right here on the web return to confront the terror he experienced his senior year. Behind the terror was Chuck. The mask of a handsome charmer hid an evil soul. He goes home to California and discovers that this very same Chuck has married a wealthy woman who has recently died under mysterious circumstances. Enjoy this story at Orchard Press

Rara-Avis. (An Homage To Dashiell Hammett) Crip & Henrietta head out to the Rara-Avis Bookstore on the island of Alameda inread Wohlforth's work right here on the web response to a call from the owner. She reported a mint-condition copy of Black Mask, containing a story by Dashiell Hammett has been stolen. But can Crip believe the seductive owner’s story? Enjoy this story at Thug Lit


 

 

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