Could not finish. Made it through the first few chapters, but found the characters unappealing and unrelateable,

These stories read like supernatural pulp fiction from a 30's magazine. There are a few amusing hard boiled lines in each story, but the writing is inconsistent and sometimes gets fairly juvenile. That said, Stein and Candle are engaging characters and the tales are very fast paced and generally fun.

I seem to be reading this series in counter clockwise fashion. Several years ago I read volume 3, now I have read volume 2, but I still need to get and read volume 1. In volume 2, Stein & Candle encounter Hawaiian spirits, a resurrected pharaoh in Las Vegas, and Lovecraftian horrors in New England. This volume also has the rescue tale where Candles and his squad rescue Stein from the Nazis in WWII and also where the duo lets loose a Stein ancestor on an unsuspecting NYC. A fun read.

would like to thank netgalley and the publisher for letting me read this funny book

an old fashioned murder mystery with hints of the supernatural

well worth a read and quite funny and old fashioned in places

Weatherby Stein is a fourteen year old heir to the greatest family of European sorcerers. Morton Candle is a tough ex soldier who helped rescue him after his parents were killed during WW2. These are the cases that they have solved. Call Stein and Candle Detective Agency for an outbreak of zombies. Have a Cthulhu? No problem. These stories are the best. Paranormal experience with muscles make them unbeatable. Loved this book and the first one as well. It you like the old time gangsters and gumshoes, you will love this. I received this book from Net Galley and Curiosity Quills Press for a honest review and no compensation otherwise.The opinions expressed are my own.

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Fun to read, enjoyable and entertaining., I look forward to reading other books in this series.
Recommended!
Many thanks to Curiosity Quills Press and Netgalley for this ARC

Cold Wars by Michael Panush, a decent mystery with a fantasy twist, a man has been killed mysteriously and Stein and Candle are on the case! But what lies behind the killing will cause them to dig deep into the past!