Now, for the first time, they collect 100 of their mystery short stories into a five-volume series called Crimes Collide. Fifty stories total from each author, with ten stories from Rusch and ten from Smith in every volume.
Volume 4 features non-human detectives. Beginning with Smith’s “Cat Caught in the Art,” from his Pakhet Jones series featuring a superhero in the world of cats, and ending with Rusch’s “Helmie,” in which the search for a missing cat requires magical investigation, this volume offers wild adventures and some truly strange crimes.