Mark McNease's Fearsome Fiction Podcast Extra: Fatal Mistake - A Harry Hell Novella (Chapters 11 - 20)
Mark McNease's Fearsome Fiction Podcast: Mysteries, Thrillers, Rare Finds and More
Release Date: 03/15/2026
Mark McNease's Fearsome Fiction Podcast: Genre Classic 'The Mystery of the Yellow Room' by Gaston Leroux (Chapters 7 - 10)
Mark McNease's Fearsome Fiction Podcast: Mysteries, Thrillers, Rare Finds and More
Today we continue our serialized audio journey through one of the great classics of detective fiction: The Mystery of the Yellow Room, by Gaston Leroux — presented here in the Vivid Press Edition. First published in 1907, this novel gave the world one of its most enduring puzzles: a woman attacked in a room locked from the inside, with no possible means of escape for her assailant. No hidden doors. No passable windows. No explanation — until a brilliant young reporter named Joseph Rouletabille decides to find one. If you've never read it, you're in for something special. If you have,...
info_outline
Mark McNease's Fearsome Fiction Podcast: Night Flight to Murder Town - A Marshall James Thriller (Chapters 22 -24)
Mark McNease's Fearsome Fiction Podcast: Mysteries, Thrillers, Rare Finds and More
Welcome back to Fearsome Fiction, and to Night Flight to Murder Town: A Marshall James Thriller. When we last left Marshall, he was finding his footing in a New York City that was as thrilling as it was foreign — a city that moved faster than he did, that asked more of him than he expected, and that seemed to be keeping secrets at every turn. In tonight's chapters, those secrets begin to take on weight. Trent hands Marshall a small yellow envelope — a floppy disk he calls "insurance" — and refuses to say more. It's the kind of thing a man hands off only when he's afraid of what...
info_outline
Mark McNease's Fearsome Fiction: Genre Classic The Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux (Chapters 1 thru 6)
Mark McNease's Fearsome Fiction Podcast: Mysteries, Thrillers, Rare Finds and More
Gaston Leroux published The Mystery of the Yellow Room in 1907, and it's been quietly influencing mystery writers ever since. In this episode we dig into chapters 1 through 6 — the impossible crime at the Château du Glandier, the locked room that shouldn't have an answer, and the arrival of the irrepressible young journalist Joseph Rouletabille, who is eighteen years old and already the smartest person in the room. This is the book that shaped Agatha Christie, John Dickson Carr, and the entire locked-room mystery tradition. It holds up beautifully, and it's a lot of fun. Get your copy...
info_outline
Mark McNease's Fearsome Fiction Podcast: Night Flight to Murder Town - A Marshall James Thriller (Chapters 19 through 21)
Mark McNease's Fearsome Fiction Podcast: Mysteries, Thrillers, Rare Finds and More
Welcome back to Mark McNease's Fearsome Fiction Podcast, with Night Flight to Murder Town - A Marshall James Thriller, chapters nineteen through twenty-one. It's 1992, and Marshall James is forty blocks into his first real walk through New York City — down through Chelsea, where hope is spilling out onto the sidewalk in front of every coffee bar. He's thirty-three, starting over, and beginning to believe that might actually be possible. That belief gets complicated fast. A tour of Muscles Gym leads to a dinner invitation from Leland Jenner that Marshall knows he shouldn't accept — and...
info_outline
Mark McNease's Fearsome Fiction Podcast 83: Night Flight to Murder Town - A Marshall James Thriller (Chapters 16 through 18)
Mark McNease's Fearsome Fiction Podcast: Mysteries, Thrillers, Rare Finds and More
Welcome to Mark McNease’s Fearsome Fiction Podcast and another three chapters of Night Flight to Murder Town: A Marshall James Thriller. Marshall James arrives in New York and gets his first look at Muscles, the gym where he'll be working, courtesy of Trent. He’s told the previous manager had to go away and has not been seen since. The new one, Leland, can't quite hide his interest in Marshall. And Trent makes it clear, without raising his voice, that everyone in the room knows exactly where the lines are. New York is a city that demands a verdict, and Marshall's is immediate. He loves it,...
info_outline
Mark McNease's Fearsome Fiction Podcast Bonus: Fatal Mistake - A Harry Hell Novella (Chapters 21 - END)
Mark McNease's Fearsome Fiction Podcast: Mysteries, Thrillers, Rare Finds and More
Fatal Mistake opens in a dying, collapsed world — a ruined island city divided between the fortified enclave of Eastward, where the privileged few cling to order, and the brutal wastelands outside its walls: the Ruins and the Slopes, where survival is the only law. Two storylines run in parallel. In the present, we meet Harry Hell — a former elite assassin who has spent five years hunting the most dangerous woman alive: a killer known only as Nectar. The story begins with her turning the tables on two of his men sent to find her, slitting one's throat and sending the other back with a...
info_outline
Mark McNease's Fearsome Fiction Podcast Extra: Fatal Mistake - A Harry Hell Novella (Chapters 11 - 20)
Mark McNease's Fearsome Fiction Podcast: Mysteries, Thrillers, Rare Finds and More
In addition to my weekly 3-chapter installments of 'Night Flight to Murder Town: A Marshall James Thriller,' I'm offering up three extra-long listens of 'Fatal Mistake: A Harry Hell Novella.' It's the first of three novellas planned that take us on the wild journey that is Harry Hell's life. Queer, dystopian, fearsome. Fatal Mistake opens in a dying, collapsed world — a ruined island city divided between the fortified enclave of Eastward, where the privileged few cling to order, and the brutal wastelands outside its walls: the Ruins and the Slopes, where survival is the only law. Two...
info_outline
Mark McNease's Fearsome Fiction Podcast 82: Night Flight to Murder Town - A Marshall James Thriller (Chapters 13 thru 15)
Mark McNease's Fearsome Fiction Podcast: Mysteries, Thrillers, Rare Finds and More
Welcome back to Fearsome Fiction, and to Night Flight to Murder Town: A Marshall James Thriller. When we last left Marshall, he was stepping into a world he wasn't sure he could step back out of. Now in New York City he's about to find out just how deep the rabbit hole goes. Chapter Thirteen drops Marshall into Trent's world with all its chrome and white leather and carefully curated secrets. The apartment on the Upper East Side tells you everything you need to know about how far Trent has come, and how far he's willing to go to stay there. Chapter Fourteen takes us downtown to the Village in...
info_outline
Mark McNease's Fearsome Fiction Podcast Extra: Fatal Mistake - A Harry Hell Novella (Chapters 1 - 10)
Mark McNease's Fearsome Fiction Podcast: Mysteries, Thrillers, Rare Finds and More
In addition to my weekly 3-chapter installments of 'Night Flight to Murder Town: A Marshall James Thriller,' I'm offering up three extra-long listens of 'Fatal Mistake: A Harry Hell Novella.' It's the first of three novellas planned that take us on the wild journey that is Harry Hell's life. Queer, dystopian, fearsome. Fatal Mistake opens in a dying, collapsed world — a ruined island city divided between the fortified enclave of Eastward, where the privileged few cling to order, and the brutal wastelands outside its walls: the Ruins and the Slopes, where survival is the only law. Two...
info_outline
Mark McNease's Fearsome Fiction Podcast 80: Night Flight to Murder Town - A Marshall James Thriller (Chapters 10 - 12)
Mark McNease's Fearsome Fiction Podcast: Mysteries, Thrillers, Rare Finds and More
Welcome back to Fearsome Fiction, and to Night Flight to Murder Town: A Marshall James Thriller. In the next three chapters, Marshall’s fresh start in New York takes a sharp, unsettling turn. What begins as a nostalgic breakfast in a familiar Manhattan diner becomes something far more dangerous when Trent finally hints at the truth behind his sudden wealth. Laundromats? Not exactly. And the “job” he has in mind for Marshall may come with consequences neither of them can fully control . As the charm of Trent’s polished world gives way to whispers, bodyguards, locked lobbies, and...
info_outlineIn addition to my weekly 3-chapter installments of 'Night Flight to Murder Town: A Marshall James Thriller,' I'm offering up three extra-long listens of 'Fatal Mistake: A Harry Hell Novella.' It's the first of three novellas planned that take us on the wild journey that is Harry Hell's life. Queer, dystopian, fearsome.
Fatal Mistake opens in a dying, collapsed world — a ruined island city divided between the fortified enclave of Eastward, where the privileged few cling to order, and the brutal wastelands outside its walls: the Ruins and the Slopes, where survival is the only law.
Two storylines run in parallel. In the present, we meet Harry Hell — a former elite assassin who has spent five years hunting the most dangerous woman alive: a killer known only as Nectar. The story begins with her turning the tables on two of his men sent to find her, slitting one's throat and sending the other back with a message. Harry is cold, purposeful, and consumed by a single obsession — avenging the death of Raul, his partner and the only person he ever loved, who Nectar killed.