Transgressions: Chasing Shadows: Two Novellas from Transgressions

Transgressions #3, 4

by Ed McBain (Editor), Walter Mosley, Joyce Carol Oates

Novellas from Transgressions by Walter Mosley and Joyce Carol Oates
“Archibald Lawless, Anarchist at Large: Walking the Line” by Walter Mosley: Felix Orlean is a New York City journalism student who needs a job to cover his rent. An ad in the paper leads him to Archibald Lawless, and a descent into a shadow world where no one and nothing is as it first seems. “The Corn Maiden” by Joyce Carol Oates: When a fourteen-year-old girl is abducted in a small New York town, the crime starts a spiral of destruction and despair as only this master of psychological suspense could write it.

Genres: African American, Short Stories, Mystery

Audio CD

First published May 1, 2005

About the author

"Ed McBain" is one of the pen names of American author and screenwriter Salvatore Albert Lombino (1926-2005), who legally adopted the name Evan Hunter in 1952.

While successful and well known as Evan Hunter, he was even better known as Ed McBain, a name he used for most of his crime fiction, beginning in 1956.

He also used the pen names John Abbott, Curt Cannon, Hunt Collins, Ezra Hannon, Dean Hudson, Evan Hunter, and Richard Marsten.

Reviews

[Julie · Rating 2 out of 5]

The book was titled Chasing Shadows and included the stories: Archibald Lawless and The Corn Maiden.