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Opening Shots: Great Mystery and Crime Writers Share Their First Published Stories
Opening Shots Great Mystery and Crime Writers Share Their First Published Stories Author:Lawrence Block (Editor) Edited by Lawrence Block "Opening Shots" is a collection of first stories published by prominent mystery and crime writers, along with brief accounts by each author recounting the paths the stories followed on their way to publication. In addition to the pleasure of the stories themselves, readers will discover a... more » little about that first successful leap into print and can look for signs of the writer-to-be in this earliest effort. Readers will also encounter the work of some writers who had established themselves professionally before they ever wrote anything shorter than 60,000 words. They began as novelists and did not write short stories until someone convinced them to write one for an anthology. Their aptitude for short fiction and the delight they take in writing it are unmistakably evident in the work.
Included in this stellar field are the following stories and their authors:
* Laud / David Black;
* Double Glazing / Simon Brett;
* Public Servant / Max Allan Collins;
* Spring Fever by Dorothy Salisbury Davis;
* The Tree on Execution Hill / Loren Estleman;
* Now's the Time / John Harvey;
* Death of a Romance Writer / Joan Hess;
* Compliments of a Friend / Susan Isaacs;
* The Bathroom / Peter Lovesey;
* The Death of Me / Margaret Maron;
* Freedom / Susan Moody;
* The Dripping / David Morell;
* A Taste of Life / Sara Paretsky;
* Fan Mail / Peter Robinson;
* Jim and Mary G / Jim Sallis;
* The White Death / Justin Scott;
* The Tinder Box / Minette Walters;
* Arrest / Donald E. Westlake;
* You Can't Lose / Lawrence Block
Lawrence Block is a four-time winner of the Edgar Allen Poe and Shamus awards and a recipient of literary prizes in France, Germany, and Japan. the author of more than fifty books, including fourteen Matthew Scudder novels, Eight Million Ways to Die and Even the Wicked. « less