David Fears: 27 books

44 of David H. Fears' best short stories (written under the pen name of DH Henry) were culled for inclusion here, including revisions not before published. We believe there is something for everyone here in this diverse and stimulating collection by an extraordinary storyteller—from magical realism,...

FIVE SHORT STORIES totalling 10k words; Looking for something different? Something that defies category? 1) "Many a Good Man" is a haunting trip that dumbfounds a young man after seeing a shapely woman sunbathing. Do they really rob banks? 2) "Something Woke Me" finds a young man revisiting his parents'...

SHORT STORY - 4700 words - When Joey's dog Max eats poison and dies, Joey searches for enough faith and prayer to ask God to raise Max from the dead, believing God will do that very thing if he believes enough. Joey is an orphan who lives with his grandparents on their farm. His grandfather hasn't spoken...

In today’s publishing world many writers can neither find nor afford a professional editor. The only editing such writers benefit from is self-editing. Fears, a recognized Twain scholar, argues against the common notion that an independent novelist must hire an editor to turn out a good novel and...

The 2nd in the Mike Angel Mystery series of complex, historical, erotic novels is a thriller full of interesting characters and plenty of serious conflicts. Set in Chicago and New Orleans in 1961. 32 yr old Mike is determined to get answers and stop for no one, especially after the woman he loves...

Mike is shot after chasing a naked blonde down a dark street one wet night in Portland, Oregon. His near death experience, surgery and a long recovery convince him that the time’s right to marry Molly Bennett. But first Mike vows to catch the killer, whose victim turns out to be the granddaughter...

When a grotesque and melodramatic female seeks protection from a convict Mike helped to send up, his scar needles heat up. After she slips Mike a mysterious substance in his coffee he suffers near total paralysis. While she rifles his office, he can only watch her take a file and leave. The next morning...

In this complex mystery set in 1964 amidst racial divisions in Chicago, Mike receives an anonymous note with a 1934 $10,000 Federal Reserve Note with a cryptic message that the bill is payment for an unspecified future trouble. Tracking down the sender spins into a 40 year old kidnaping case involving...

In this complex mystery set in Portland, Oregon, 1965 Mike befriends an eccentric veteran with a drinking problem, whose estranged wife has been sleeping with hoodlums and racketeers. One night the man shows up at Mike’s office asking for a ride to the US side of the Canadian border. On the way...

Julia Gateswood hires reluctant PI, Mike Angel, to find her sister, but Julia’s social position and the sordid past of the sister make this anything but a simple case. Julia’s a mysterious ex-beauty queen, who married for ambition to congressman Henry Gateswood,running for a vacated US Senate...

In 1972 Mike takes on a case searching for a stolen inheritance. The next day his dowager client is killed on a downtown Portland street. Clues she left leads Mike on a meandering case with murder, seduction and twists over three states, chasing a carnival con man and his stolen and counterfeit money....

Dark Oath, #18 in the Mike Angel PI Series. Drawn to follow a mysterious blonde with a more than ample backside, Mike falls into a case chasing a stolen relic of ancient Hawaiian King Kamehameha the First, reputed to bestow long life to the age of 130. After his Korean buddy is murdered in a downtown...

SEE the characters in this novel on Mike Angel's FACEBOOK page! https://www.facebook.com/MikeAngelPI Lust stalks Mike Angel as he stalks his father’s killers in this complex mystery. The first of the Mike Angel Mysteries of historical, erotic novels. Set in the New York/New Jersey and Chicago...

In Dark Arson (#16) set in Portland in 1975, Mike’s neighborhood is victim to a series of mysterious arson cases, including a house he was renovating. When an old lady at the end of his block is killed in a fire, her daughter, a stunning redhead psychiatrist from Olympia, Washington, hires Mike...