In Dead Wolf in a Hat, my paranormal gumshoe gets tangled up in a mess of murder and lycanthropy. Naturally, there's a rain-soaked femme fatale keen to cloud his judgement, not to mention a bunch of angry Titans who just want their casino to turn a profit. Trouble is, it's not just blackjack they're playing ...

I had this pile of werewolf research left over from another project I'd been working on. In it I found an old German story about the boxenwolf, a werewolf that only transforms when it wears a special belt. That got me thinking about what other clothing accessories werewolves might use to control their animal urges. Shoes? Neck-ties? Hats, maybe? When I brought a little Greek myth into this story, I realised the genre collision I'd created was bigger than I thought. That's when I realised the world I'd sketched in The Wooden Baby was set to grow like Topsy.

You can read Dead Wolf in a Hat in the anthology The Dragon Done It published by Baen Books.

"I recommend the story for its casual mastery of the detective sub-genre dialogue and the new ways in which werewolves operate in this world" - TangentOnline

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