Groonk's Newsmine 2.0

I thought that in the month and a bit leading up to the release of ANANSI BOYS I would go and dig around the vaults and find things that it might be fun to put up on this website for a while.

So I've put up my third ever published short story -- it's about 23 years old. It's juvenilia, but I hope not entirely without interest, about a murder in NurseryLand, and is one of the very few hardboiled detective stories I've written. Presenting Little Jack Horner, private eye, in The Case of the Four And Twenty Blackbirds. http://www.neilgaiman.com/exclusive/4&20.asp

It was reprinted in ANGELS AND VISITATIONS, and in a handful of anthologies, but wasn't in Smoke and Mirrors, so it will probably be new to many of you.