Widow of the Amputation & Other Weird Crimes is a collection of four novellas that explore the madness of murder through the warped lenses of urban noir, science fiction, horror, and experimental fantasy.
In
Decay in Amber
, a convicted rapist and murderer wakes up one morning to discover he is only six inches tall and floating down the middle of the L.A. River in a beer bottle. In
Rocket City Murder
, a police lieutenant has only twenty-four hours to solve a brutal triple-murder committed within the secretive confines of the bio warfare research lab known as Micropolis. In
Widow of the Amputation
, the mythologies of various cultures collide as Charles Manson succeeds in busting out of Corcoran Penitentiary. And in
You Might As Well Die
, a crime noir writer is led into a clever cat-and-mouse game intended to frame him for a murder he himself unknowingly devised.