Shoveling Smoke: Selected Mystery Stories Style:Clothbound “ELLERY QUEEN IS THE AMERICAN

“ELLERY QUEEN IS THE AMERICAN DETECTIVE STORY” So wrote the great critic Anthony Boucher about the contributions of Ellery Queen to the mystery story

Palmer passed away in 1968

" which combines death

and a checklist of the author's mystery fiction

In the clever “The Riddle of the Black Spade

Shoveling Smoke: Selected Mystery Stories Style:Clothbound “ELLERY QUEEN IS THE AMERICANThe creator of Judge Deborah Knott and Lt. Sigrid Harald and the winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel, Margaret Maron is one of the finest contemporary mystery writers. Maron has a sensitivity about how time and place influence people and events, about how past generations continue to affect our world, about how the domestic situation can breed both warmth and quiet despair. In short, Maron sees the mystery story as concerned with people as well