Charlie Jones writes Philadelphia crime fiction. His short story Netherworld Express, which takes the reader on a ride on the Broad Street subway to their final destination, appeared in the anthology The Devil You Know Better published by Critical Blast Publishing in Spring, 2022. His flash fiction, Murder Lake, was published in February 2023 by Shotgun Honey, and Independence Day, 1992, a Mike Maxwell mystery, was published in December 2022 in the anthology Starlite Pulp Review #1. The Mike Maxwell Mysteries take place in the late twentieth century and highlight the human cost of the greed, corruption, and racism rampant in Philadelphia. He owes a debt of gratitude to the giants of the genre, Chandler and Hammett, with a deep bow to the high priest himself, Hemingway. 

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