1 Novel & 6 Collections by Edward D. Hoch (ed. Sun77)
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Overview: Edward D Hoch (Edward Dentinger Hoch) (1930 – 2008)
Edward D. Hoch is one of the most honored mystery writers of all time. In addition to winning an Edgar for Best Short Story, he has received the Mystery Writers of America’s highest honor, the Grand Master Award, and he has been recognized for Lifetime Achievement by the Private Eye Writers of America and the Bouchercon. Ed Hoch is the only author who specializes in the mystery short story to receive such recognition.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
The Shattered Raven:At a gathering of the nation’s foremost mystery authors, death takes the stageDozens die each year for the sake of the annual Mystery Writers of America banquet. Heiresses are poisoned, captains of industry are stabbed, and private detectives are gunned down in the street. To mystery authors, these fictional murders are nothing but good fun. But at the annual presentation of the MWA’s prestigious Edgar and Raven awards, real-life death is about to intrude.Ross Craigthorn’s nightly news program has made him one of the most well-respected men in the country, but deep in his past lies a terrible secret—one he shares with only a few others. They have done their best to forget their long-ago crime, but when Craigthorn decides to come clean, his old accomplice knows that the time has come for murder. When a room full of mystery authors witnesses a killing, which of them will have the nerve to play detective?
Ben Snow SSC The Ripper of Storyville, and other Ben Snow tales Ben Snow features in a series of American Old West mysteries set around the start of the 20th century. Like the Dr. Sam Hawthorne series, these tales are carefully researched historical pieces, sometimes including real historical characters such as Butch Cassidy. He met another Hoch character, Sam Hawthorne, in "The Problem of the Haunted Teepee".
Layout for Murder (Noir Masters Triple Threat) SSC CONTENTS: INTRODUCTION; LAYOUT FOR MURDER; LOVELY LADY OF LUST; DRIVE MY HEARST, DARLING!
Leopold’s Way (1985) SSC Captain Jules Leopold is a police detective, the head of the Violent Crimes Squad of the police department for the fictional city of Monroe, New York, a city apparently modeled on Hoch’s own home town, Rochester, New York. Along with his colleagues Lieutenant Fletcher and Sergeant Connie Trent, he is one of Hoch’s most conventional characters. The Leopold stories are police procedurals on the surface, showing the interaction of the officers as they investigate crimes, but the crimes themselves are frequently unusual and reflect Hoch’s skill at plotting and placement of clues. The story outcomes usually depend on the deductive ability of Leopold and his comrades rather than on straightforward police work, and sometimes feature impossible crimes and locked rooms.
The Leopold stories best illustrate one of the attractions of Hoch’s series tales: The characters age and alter realistically with time. In the course of the series, Leopold has divorced, remarried, retired, returned to work, and retired a second time. Lieutenant Fletcher has been promoted to captain to replace him, and Connie Trent has been promoted to Lieutenant. In some of the recent stories, the focus is on Fletcher and Trent, with Leopold only acting as a respected adviser.
Leopold first appeared as a subsidiary character in a 1957 story. In "The Theft of Leopold’s Badge" in March 1991, Hoch brought Captain Leopold and Nick Velvet together in the same story.
The Night My Friend (1992) SSC
Introduction (by Francis M. Nevins, Jr.)
Twilight Thunder
The Night My Friend
The Suitcase
The Picnic People
Day for a Picnic
Shattered Rainbow
The Patient Waiter
Too Long at the Fair
Winter Run
The Long Way Down
Dreaming Is a Lonely Thing
In Some Secret Place
To Slay an Eagle
They Never Come Back
The Only Girl in His Life
It Happens, Sometimes
A Girl Like Cathy
What’s It All About?
First Offense
Hawk in the Valley
The Ring with the Velvet Ropes
Homecoming
The Night People (2001) SSC
Introduction
Inspector Fleming’s Last Case
The Man Who Was Everywhere
The Passionate Phantom
The Night People
Festival in Black
I’d Know You Anywhere
The Way of Justice
The Empty Zoo
Ring the Bell Softly
Stop at Nothing
Another War
The Impossible “Impossible Crime”
The Way Out
The Man at the Top
Burial Monuments Three
The Scorpion Girl
The Price of Wisdom
Second Chance
Three Weeks in a Spanish Town
The Rattlesnake Man
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