It’s HOT here! 90s again today, too early in the year for this.
I’ve continued to read short stories this last week, but only from this one of the three books I showed last time, and I finished it. The first group of stories is in last week’s post.
The Mammoth Book of Locked-Room Mysteries and Impossible Crimes edited by Mike Ashley, 2000 ebook. An asterisk marks those I especially liked.
October 2000 ebook
“No Way Out” by Michael Collins *
“Off the Face of the Earth” by Clayton Rawson *
“Murder Strips Off” by Amy Myers
“Out of His Head” by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
“The Doomdorf Mystery” by Melville Davisson Post
“The Adventure of the Jacobean House” by C.N. & A.M. Williamson *
“The Motor Boat” by Jacques Futrelle
“Murder In the Air” by Peter Tremayne
“The Pulp Connection” by Bill Pronzini *
“Stag Night” by Marilyn Todd
“Mr. Strang Accepts A Challenge” by William Brittain
“The Legs That Walked” by H.R.F. Keating
“The Next Big Thing” by Peter T. Garratt
“The Second Drug” by Richard A. Lupoff
“Ice Elation” by Susanna Gregory *
“The Mystery of the Taxi-Cab” by Howel Evans *
“Heartstopper” by Frank M. Robinson
“Blind Eye” by Edward Marston
“The Amorous Corpse” by Peter Lovesey
also, the afterword: Impossible Crimes by Mike Ashley
I thought this was a pretty strong collection, and handy in ebook format to dip into any time. Recommended.
Sounds good to me. A good mix of authors. I just bought the ebook on your recommendation. I can read short stories on the kindle much better than novels.
We had some of that “too early in the year for this” weather a few weeks back in between seemingly endless days of rain here in the Kansas City area. It finally cooled down over the weekend and we are having a few days of mid-70s to low 80’s partly sunny days which are a great relief. I know Summer will be coming, but always hope for the heat and humidity to hold off as long as possible and to end as soon as possible.
I enjoyed this anthology when I read it. Nice mix of stories and authors!
You’re right, it was a good collection and I enjoyed it a lot.
I finished May with 70 stories read, the same as April. No month so far has had fewer stories read. At the end of May I am at over 400 stories read for the year and 24 collections finished. I have three books I am alternating (at least one story from each every day) and should be finished with all of them soon. They are the MWA Anthology WHEN A STRANGER COMES TO TOWN and collections by Jim Shepard and Antonya Nelson. Every time I look around I seem to discover a new author or a new collection by a writer I’ve read, so I will not be running out of material any time soon.
I often envy your ability to read so much, so fast. You’re certainly reading more than a story a day you once did. There is a second anthology he did with more of the same, which I also have in ebook but have not started.