This hefty anthology of crime stories is marvelous as a basic introduction to citified, hard-boiled sleuthing. Anyone but a neophyte, however, will find many of the selections quite familiar. McCullough's ( Great Detectives: A Century of the Best Mys...
In the pursuit of profit, some of the inhabitants of Smyrna, New York, are considering turning their town into a theme park. And at least one of them is getting away with murder, or so it seems when two corpses--one of them dead for 20 years, the oth...
Ziza Todd, the feisty reverend and amateur sleuth, returns to the Hudson River Valley to take up her new church assignment in Quarryville, an incestuous town full of quirky characters and deep dark secrets. Soon after her arrival, the town has two mu...