Some thoughts on humanity’s long-term prospects, and by long-term, I mean REALLY long-term. Probably all nonsense.
Christmas Spirit
by W.H. Cameron
Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine
November/December 2021 issue
When a young mother is accused of drowning her child on Christmas Eve, a surprise discovery during the body transport forces apprentice mortician Melisende Dulac to confront her own ghosts of Christmas past—and help bring the perpetrator to justice.
“Christmas Spirit” marks the third appearance of Melisende Dulac, and takes place roughly six months after the events of Crossroad. It appears in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, November/December 2021 issue.
About BCMystery
A denizen of Oregon, Cameron writes the critically-acclaimed mysteries Crossroad, Property of the State, and the award-winning County Line.
Stories and Novellas
Waldo’s Gold
When a grave at the Pioneer Cemetery is robbed, Melisende Dulac sets out to track down the perpetrator and, in the process, solve a century-old mystery.
Hey Nineteen
During one of her first solo body removal jobs as an apprentice mortician, Melisende Dulac discovers an old man’s sad end may not have been all that natural.
Heat Death
In 1971, days before shipping out to Vietnam, a young Skin Kadash joins his best friend for a “so long to the world” blow-out at a cabin in the mountains, unaware they’re pawns in a murder plot.
Daisy and the Desperado
Skin Kadash is thrust into the middle of a decades-long feud between irascible neighbors.
Privacy Fence
In a darkly comic clash of neighbors over the height of a fence, the solution for one seems to be kidnapping . . . and possibly even murder.
