Dirmac Nor is the Neutral, a rare creature who is a natural psycho-detective. He and his assistant, Clem Wilson, go to the remaining Earth Colony, to find out what is causing their communities to revolt and self-destruct. What they find tells them the Empress Empire is in big trouble.The Neutral is an old short story I wrote, intending it to be the first of a Sherlock Holmes in space series.An embalmer with sticky fingers gets a tip that he'll never forget.Firelight reveals the ghosts of conscience past.Film noir femmes fatales take on their craziest caper yet in a trip beyond the stars.Horrors crawl from the kitchen sink, only to find itself a monster among monsters.And six other stories full of twisting, turning hidden horrors await in Days of Madness 4.Featuring new stories by Absolutely*Kate, Chris Allinotte, R.S. Bohn, Erin Cole, Park Cooper & Barb Lien, William Davoll, Richard Godwin, Mav Skye, Benjamin Sobieck, Angel Zapata.

New version Nov 01 2016. Canadian bookstore owner Paul Sirenne heads to the town of Etretat, France, on the trail of a hundred year old mystery hidden in the pages of 'The Hollow Needle', by Maurice Leblanc. Together with Leblanc's great-granddaughter, Sirenne unearths puzzles, codes and historical mysteries, exposing a secret war for control of a cave fortress in Etretat's chalk cliffs.Canadian bookstore owner Paul Sirenne is thrust into a quest for answers when his parents are found murdered, their bodies cut up into the letters H.N. A note sent before his father's murder drives Sirenne to seek out the roots of a long-forgotten family secret.He heads to the town of Etretat, France, on the trail of a hundred year old mystery hidden in the pages of 'The Hollow Needle', by Maurice Leblanc. Together with Leblanc's great-granddaughter, Sirenne unearths puzzles, codes and historical mysteries, exposing a secret war between Leblanc and Adolf Hitler for control of a cave fortress hidden in Etretat's chalk cliffs. 'THE CAVES OF ETRETAT' is the first in a four-book epic action-adventure series, replete with real historical mysteries, codes, puzzles, and dozens of conspiracy theories. Each book raises the stakes to a higher level, increasing the pace, the scope, and the questions. This series ,unlike any other, will appeal to conspiracy-lovers and answer-seekers alike. Try to solve the mystery before the end. What is really going on? Inextricably woven into history, the series re-writes everything we know into a non-stop rollercoaster where nothing is ever as it seems.Though written as fiction, the 'Caves of Etretat' series presents an allegorical tale, somewhat like the "Celestine Prophecies" but on steroids. It is intended to take the reader on a journey unlike any other. In fact, the author challenges you to figure out where this story will take you before you get there. He is confident you will not succeed.