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Dave Zeltserman @davezeltserman.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Meet Julius Katz—Boston’s most brilliant, eccentric, and laziest detective—from Dave Zeltserman, author of the 2026 Edgar Award-winning short story Julius Katz Draws a Straight Flush! On sale today! amazon.com/dp/B00P8EDITI

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Dave Zeltserman @davezeltserman.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Blood Crimes is on sale now for $0.99 www.amazon.com/Blood-Crimes...

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Dave Zeltserman @davezeltserman.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

The 20th Julius Katz mystery 'Julius Katz Draws a Straight Flush' won the 2026 Edgar Award for best short story. The 21st Julius Katz mystery 'Julius Katz Gets Arrested' is in the current May/June issue of Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine.

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Dave Zeltserman @davezeltserman.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

My Julius Katz mysteries have now won an Edgar, Shamus, Derringer, and 2 Ellery Queen Readers awards. The most recent one Julius Katz Gets Arrested is in the current May/June issue of Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine.

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Dave Zeltserman @davezeltserman.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

And the 2026 Edgar Award for Best Short Story goes to...

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Dave Zeltserman @davezeltserman.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

My latest crime novel (for now, only available in German) makes another best crime list in Germany, calling the novel "clever and ruthless."

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Dave Zeltserman @davezeltserman.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Here's the deal: Trump, you can have all 3 of these awards, plus my prized issue of Mad Comics #13 if you just resign and leave us all the fuck alone!

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Dave Zeltserman @davezeltserman.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

About Archie from my multiple award-winning Julius Katz mysteries davezeltserman.substack.com/p/about-archie

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Dave Zeltserman @davezeltserman.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Happy holidays from Boston's most brilliant detective Julius Katz, his sister and top spy Julia, Parker (crossing over from the Morris Brick fictional universe), and of course, Archie!

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Dave Zeltserman @davezeltserman.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Spend the holidays with Julius Katz, his sister, Morris Brick + Parker, Hell's only PI Mike Stone, and of course Archie! Detectives and Spies now on sale for $0.99 www.amazon.com/Detectives-S...

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Dave Zeltserman @davezeltserman.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

With Detectives and Spies on sale for $0.99, spend the holidays with Julius Katz, his sister Julia, Parker, a handful of demons that have escaped from Mike Stone’s private Hell, and of course, Archie. www.amazon.com/Detectives-S...

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Dave Zeltserman @davezeltserman.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

For this holiday season I have Detectives and Spies on sale for $0.99 www.amazon.com/Detectives-S...

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Dave Zeltserman @davezeltserman.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

The Caretaker of Lorne Field cracking the top 10 of Amazon's US Horror list

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Dave Zeltserman @davezeltserman.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Available today www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...

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Dave Zeltserman @davezeltserman.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

My wife took this photo of you. And yep, great turnout, and only one crank driving by yelling stuff.

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Dave Zeltserman @davezeltserman.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Yep, I was with my wife and 2 friends right across the street from you. I'm attaching a photo of me with the sign I made. My wife was taking pictures, and I'll check to see if she took a picture of you.

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Dave Zeltserman @davezeltserman.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

The first 29 chapters of my thriller The Coleridge Project are now up on davezeltserman.substack.com

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Dave Zeltserman @davezeltserman.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Chapters 18+19 are now up for my political thriller The Coleridge Project over at davezeltserman.substack.com

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Dave Zeltserman @davezeltserman.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Chapter 17 now up on davezeltserman.substack.com

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Dave Zeltserman @davezeltserman.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Chapter 15 now up davezeltserman.substack.com

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Dave Zeltserman @davezeltserman.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

First 14 chapters of my thriller The Coleridge Project are now up on my free davezeltserman.substack.com

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Dave Zeltserman @davezeltserman.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Chapter 13 now up on davezeltserman.substack.com

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Dave Zeltserman @davezeltserman.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Chapters 11 + 12 of my thriller The Coleridge Project are now up on davezeltserman.substack.com

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Dave Zeltserman @davezeltserman.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Chapters 8 & 9 of my thriller The Coleridge Project are now up on davezeltserman.substack.com

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Dave Zeltserman @davezeltserman.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

New Julius Katz stories in the upcoming Sept/Oct issues of Ellery Queen and Alfred Hitchcock. In Alfred Hitchcock: Julius Katz Draws a Straight Flush, in Ellery Queen: Julius Katz and the Dented Fender.

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Dave Zeltserman @davezeltserman.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

First 7 chapters of my thriller The Coleridge Project are now up at davezeltserman.substack.com

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Dave Zeltserman @davezeltserman.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

The first 6 chapters of my political/tech/suspense thriller The Coleridge Project are up now on my free davezeltserman.substack.com

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Dave Zeltserman @davezeltserman.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Chapter 5 of my suspense/tech/political thriller is now up on my free davezeltserman.substack.com

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Dave Zeltserman @davezeltserman.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Over at davezeltserman.substack.com/p/the-coleri...

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Dave Zeltserman @davezeltserman.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

On my free davezeltserman.substack.com, Chapter One for my political/tech thriller The Coleridge Project

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Dave Zeltserman @davezeltserman.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Prologue for The Coleridge Project (a thriller perfect for our times) up on my free davezeltserman.substack.com. I'll be posting chapters as I get to them, at least one a week.

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Dave Zeltserman @davezeltserman.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Over at davezeltserman.substack.com I write about a dream I had where I forced myself to come up with an actual joke, and then relate that to how I come up with short story ideas.

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Dave Zeltserman @davezeltserman.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

This week's hard-boiled bullet is another gothic one taken from my novel Monster. It features the monster within a London club (that's somewhere between the Hellfire Club and a Marquis de Sade nightmare) encountering a vampyre. open.substack.com/pub/davezelt...

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Dave Zeltserman @davezeltserman.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Over at my free davezeltserman.substack.com

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Dave Zeltserman @davezeltserman.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Available now for preorder at www.amazon.com/dp/B0F7SN82JL

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Dave Zeltserman @davezeltserman.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Over on my free davezeltserman.substack.com I'm comparing my publisher's original covers and titles for my Morris Brick crime thrillers with what I've come up with.