2 books by Stanley Ellin
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Overview: Stanley Bernard Ellin was a mystery writer of short stories and novels. He won the Edgar Allen Poe Award three times and the Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere once, and in 1981 he was awarded with the Mystery Writers of America’s highest honor, the Grand Master Award.
Genre: Fiction > Crime, Thrillers & Mystery
The Eighth Circle:
For Murray Kirk, running a private investigation agency is a business; he isn’t interested in justice or crusades, just profit and loss. And, because Murray knows something about police corruption, when he’s asked to act for a young officer accused of bribery, he isn’t keen. He can’t see the profit – until he meets the man’s fiancée. Then his motives become uncomfortably confused, and he finds himself descending into a murky world of bookmakers, gangsters and crooked politicians, where setting up an honest cop is all in a day’s work …
The Key to Nicholas Street:
The locals call her the Ballou. An illustrator for a high-fashion magazine, she has been the talk of the upstate town of Sutton ever since she first appeared, paying cash for one of the finest houses on Nicholas Street. Daring, gaudy, and grand, she inspires envy in the women and lust in the men. And in one member of this quiet town, she is about to inspire murder.
The trouble starts when her rakish New York lover moves in full time, scandalizing the prudish Ayers family next door. When the Ayers’ maid pays a social call to the Ballou, she finds her lying dead at the foot of a staircase – gray, cold, and fabulous no more. Suspicion falls on the Ayerses, whose starched exterior hides a wealth of ugly secrets.
From this interlocking narrative told from the perspectives of the citizens of Sutton comes a reminder that no town is too small for murder.
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