The Evil That Men Do: Eight Historical Mysteries, by Catherine Mambretti

 

 

    “The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones” (William Shakespeare).

So said Mark Antony at Caesar’s funeral. But although no one wants to speak ill of the evil dead, the effects of their lives linger forever. These eight stories explore those lingering aftereffects. In Medieval Catalunya, evil persists on the walls of long-abandoned churches in murals where demons torture saints and martyrs. In Colonial Virginia, native Powhatan bones preserve the tale of genocide. In Post-World War II Chicago, a P.I. finds evil interred with his mother’s bones, then deduces how the weak are punished for the crimes of the powerful. In the 1990s, a young woman decides there’s no benefit in being more sinned against than sinning. Suitably at the end of this collection, a maid at a resort hotel at the foot of Mount Powhatan uncovers bad memories in the sheets and pillowcases she changes each day—but it’s nothing compared to the evil that stalks the foothills of her Serbo-Croatian homeland.

Three of these stories previously appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and one in ezine Handheld Crime. One story was scheduled for publication in two different periodicals that went out of business before it was published. One was developed and previewed at www.zoetrope.com.

ISBN 978-0-9821549-0-8
Copyright 2008 by Catherine Mambretti
Cover design by Light Pages, LLC
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