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Small Felonies 2
SMALL FELONIES 2
50 short-short stories told in first-person, third-person, present as well as past tense, and in epistolary format; tales of detection (three feature long-running series character, the “Nameless Detective”), psychological suspense, historical noir, light and dark fantasy, satirical humor, horror, the biter-bitten, the O. Henry twist, a shaggy dog story or two, even a shameless futuristic Hemingway pastiche.
The earliest entry, “I Know a Way,” was published in 1971; the most recent, “Such Things As Nightmares Are Made Of,” appears here for the first time. Fourteen were written in collaboration with Barry Malzberg. More than a score were first printed in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine ; others in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, Mystery Scene, Cemetery Dance, The Strand Magazine, Analog Science Fiction, Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine ; the balance in anthologies.
50 crime stories… each a connoisseur’s delight!
50 short-short stories told in first-person, third-person, present as well as past tense, and in epistolary format; tales of detection (three feature long-running series character, the “Nameless Detective”), psychological suspense, historical noir, light and dark fantasy, satirical humor, horror, the biter-bitten, the O. Henry twist, a shaggy dog story or two, even a shameless futuristic Hemingway pastiche.
The earliest entry, “I Know a Way,” was published in 1971; the most recent, “Such Things As Nightmares Are Made Of,” appears here for the first time. Fourteen were written in collaboration with Barry Malzberg. More than a score were first printed in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine ; others in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, Mystery Scene, Cemetery Dance, The Strand Magazine, Analog Science Fiction, Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine ; the balance in anthologies.
50 crime stories… each a connoisseur’s delight!
248 pages, Paperback
Published April 4, 2022
About the author
Bill Pronzini
632 books239 followersMystery Writers of America Awards "Grand Master" 2008
Shamus Awards Best Novel winner (1999) for Boobytrap
Edgar Awards Best Novel nominee (1998) for A Wasteland of Strangers
Shamus Awards Best Novel nominee (1997) for Sentinels
Shamus Awards "The Eye" (Lifetime achievment award) 1987
Shamus Awards Best Novel winner (1982) for Hoodwink
Married to author Marcia Muller.
Pseudonyms:
Robert Hart Davis (collaboration with Jeffrey M. Wallmann)
Jack Foxx
William Jeffrey (collaboration with Jeffrey M. Wallmann)
Alex Saxon
Shamus Awards Best Novel winner (1999) for Boobytrap
Edgar Awards Best Novel nominee (1998) for A Wasteland of Strangers
Shamus Awards Best Novel nominee (1997) for Sentinels
Shamus Awards "The Eye" (Lifetime achievment award) 1987
Shamus Awards Best Novel winner (1982) for Hoodwink
Married to author Marcia Muller.
Pseudonyms:
Robert Hart Davis (collaboration with Jeffrey M. Wallmann)
Jack Foxx
William Jeffrey (collaboration with Jeffrey M. Wallmann)
Alex Saxon
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July 9, 2022
A collection of very short stories from Pronzini. I don't think any of them are more than ten pages long.
They all concern crimes of some kind, mostly murder, though. Many of them have an "O. Henry" twist at the end. Several of them have to do with guilt overtaking a person. Does that even happen anymore?
Overall, one of the best anthologies I've read this year.
They all concern crimes of some kind, mostly murder, though. Many of them have an "O. Henry" twist at the end. Several of them have to do with guilt overtaking a person. Does that even happen anymore?
Overall, one of the best anthologies I've read this year.
June 22, 2022
This is an excellent collection of short stories by Bill Pronzini (a few stories written in collaboration with Barry N. Malzberg). Pronzini no longer writes novels and has returned to his favorite form of literature -- the short. A few even feature his character the "Nameless Detective." A very good buy.
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