The Crooked Road, Volume 3: Ellery Queen Presents Stories of Grifters, Gangsters, Hit Men, and Other Career Crooks (The Crooked Road: Ellery Queen Presents Hit Men, and Other Career Crooks)
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| Rating | : | 4.27 (596 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00GOD8QL2 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 487 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-11-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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ITS A TRADITION OF EXCELLENCE! Well it goes without saying that if a writer is published in EQMM, then the writer has a lot of talent. The stories in this tome are all excellent. Written by some of the biggest names in the field, as well as the best up and coming authors, the stories here will give the reader hours and hours of pleasure. Some of the stories are quite emotional but they are all immensely satisfying, as well.Once again, you can't go wrong with Ellery Queen!BFN Greggorio!. A great collection. I have been reading Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine for years; these collection reflect the variety of stories found in the magazine. As can be expected, some are more to my liking than others, and there were some stories that I quickly gave up on. Overall, though, there is no denying the quality of the writing. If you, like me, love mystery short stories, this is a great buy!. Margaret glawson said A great book. Lots of short stories by different authors. I love them because I can read one story at a time when I have only a few minutes to spare. The stories are great little mysteries.
Kelner’s swashbuckling adventure “The Pirate’s Debt,” and bestseller Jeffery Deaver’s “The Westphalian Ring.” But watch out: There’s no time to put on the brakes.. with the young grifters of Art Taylor’s Derringer nominated “Rearview Mirror.” The mean streets of Detroit’s music industry feature in multiple Edgar Award winner Doug Allyn’s “The Sultans of Soul,” while New York gangsters appear in Mike Baron’s satirical “Five Stars.” Every legitimate business has its underside, as the crooked lawyers of V. Volume Three of The Crooked Road, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine’s high-speed pursuit of fiction’s criminal underworld, makes its first stop in the urban landscape of Liza Cody’s England, where the Silver Dagger winner spins a tale of prostitution and greed in “I Am Not Fluffy”, then heads off across the U.S. P. S. Vessels’ “Doloroso.” Con artists, buccaneers, and thieves take the wheel in Mary Jane Maffini’s multiple award-winning story “So Much i