Writing

Click on a link to read some of Josh's fiction:

"The Two-Body Problem" (winner of the 2019 Derringer Award)

"50" (second place in the 2018 EQMM Reader Awards)

"If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Murder" (finalist for the 2018 Derringer Award)

"Stork Trek" (a collaboration with Edward Wellen)

"The Ivory Beast" (a Mahboob Chaudri story)

"Ga Je Mee?" (a story of Amsterdam)

"Invitation to a Murder" (an early story)

Click here to purchase Friend of the Devil: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of the Grateful Dead (delivering September 30, 2024).

Click here to purchase First Week Free at the Roomy Toilet (delivering September 24, 2024).

Click here to purchase Happiness Is a Warm Gun: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of the Beatles.

Click here to purchase my Agatha-, Lefty-, and Macavity-finalist novel Dutch Threat.

Click here to purchase The Adventures of the Puzzle Club and Other Stories, which I co-wrote with Ellery Queen.

Click here to purchase Paranoia Blues: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Paul Simon.

Click here to purchase The Man Who Solved Mysteries: More Short Fiction by William Brittain.

Click here for information about Monkey Business: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Films of the Marx Brothers (which will be republished in a new edition in 2025).

Click here for information about Only the Good Die Young: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Billy Joel (which will be republished in a new edition in 2025).

Click here to purchase The Great Filling Station Holdup: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Jimmy Buffett.

Click here for information about The Beat of Black Wings: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Joni Mitchell (which will be republished in a new edition in 2025).

Click here to purchase The Misadventures of Nero Wolfe.

Click here to purchase Amsterdam Noir, which I co-edited with Rene Appel.

Click here to purchase The Man Who Read Mysteries: The Short Fiction of William Brittain.

Click here to purchase The Misadventures of Ellery Queen and The Further Misadventures of Ellery Queen, both of which I co-edited with Dale C. Andrews.

Click here to purchase The Tree of Life, a collection of all 10 of the Mahboob Chaudri stories, in paperback.

Click here to purchase The Mahboob Chaudri Mystery Megapack, which is The Tree of Life in e-book format.

Click here to purchase Styx, a zombie cop novel by Bavo Dhooge that I translated into English.

Click here for a free download of Discover a New Author, a Wildside Press ebook containing four of my short stories.

Click here for a bibliography of my publications.

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