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New England Crime Chowder
The dark side of a picture-postcard place is revealed in this collection of 14 bone-chillers: "Things That Go Bump In the Night" by S.S. Rafferty; "Lizzie Borden in the P.M." by Robert Henson; "Nice, Well-Meaning Folk" by N. Scott Warner; more.
258 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 1992
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Cynthia Manson
54 books13 followersCynthia Manson is a literary agent, formerly Director of Marketing at Davis Publications, publishers of Ellery Queen and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazines. She has also edited several anthologies.
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June 4, 2018
Assuming that all collections of short stories are a mixed bag, I am going to list them individually.
"Mifflin Must Go" by Shannon OCork
"Things That Go Bump and Grind in the Night" by S.S. Rafferty
"The Golden Parachute" by Martin N. Meyer
"Unacceptable Procedures" by Stanley Ellin
UPDATE: The first story was really very good and I had high hopes that the rest of the book might be better than average. The second and third stories, not so much. By the time I got to the fourth story, I decided that it was time to take a break and read something else for a while.
Publisher: Got any ideas for recycling a bunch of old stories and reselling them?
Cynthia: How about a theme collection? Western mysteries? Southern Mysteries?
Publisher: How about New England mysteries?
Cynthia: I don't know if we have enough stories that fit that category.
Publisher: Haven't you heard of "search and replace," Cynthia? Take some generic mysteries that only mention the setting two or three times, replace "North Dakota" with "Maine" and we're good to go.
UPDATE: Disappointed. Not worth my time to review the rest.
"Mifflin Must Go" by Shannon OCork
"Things That Go Bump and Grind in the Night" by S.S. Rafferty
"The Golden Parachute" by Martin N. Meyer
"Unacceptable Procedures" by Stanley Ellin
UPDATE: The first story was really very good and I had high hopes that the rest of the book might be better than average. The second and third stories, not so much. By the time I got to the fourth story, I decided that it was time to take a break and read something else for a while.
Publisher: Got any ideas for recycling a bunch of old stories and reselling them?
Cynthia: How about a theme collection? Western mysteries? Southern Mysteries?
Publisher: How about New England mysteries?
Cynthia: I don't know if we have enough stories that fit that category.
Publisher: Haven't you heard of "search and replace," Cynthia? Take some generic mysteries that only mention the setting two or three times, replace "North Dakota" with "Maine" and we're good to go.
UPDATE: Disappointed. Not worth my time to review the rest.
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