When a dead body turns up at the first ever Dinocon, Secret Master of Fandom and Private Detective Spade knows just who might be behind it all: Lucinda Danielle Stanhope who calls herself the Martha Stewart of Science Fiction. Now he just has to prove it.

“Stomping Mad” marks the first appearance of Spade, who along with his sidekick Paladin, is one of Rusch’s most popular characters.

“Stomping Mad” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch first published in Return of the Dinosaurs edited by Mike Resnick and Martin H. Greenberg, Daw Books, 1997.

Bestselling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch has been nominated for three Edgar Awards, two Shamus Awards, and an Anthony Award. She has won the Ellery Queen Reader’s Choice Award twice. To find out more about her work, go to kristinekathrynrusch.com

If you liked “Stomping Mad,” you might try these other Spade and Paladin stories now available from WMG Publishing:

The Case of the Vanishing Boy (Spade/Paladin)
The Karnikov Card (Spade/Paladin)
Pandora's Box (Spade/Paladin)