The Crooked Road 01 – 03: Ellery Queen Presents Stories of Grifters, Gangsters, Hit Men, and Other Career Crooks by Janet Hutchings (ed. Sun77)
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Overview: From a reader’s standpoint, the single thread that runs through these different stories may be that we enter each wondering if there’s something the criminal won’t do, some code or rule of morality he or she won’t transgress. The desire to find that boundary, that line that separates, for the professional criminal, right from wrong is part of what draws us to such stories. Then too, these characters all share at least a little space with the devil, and who captures our imagination better than that earliest career criminal of them all?
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
VOLUME 1:
A story in the famous Keller series by Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Lawrence Block provides the first stop in this anthology’s journey along the road taken by professional criminals of mystery fiction. It’s a road that leads back to the gangster’s heyday of Prohibition in stories by multiple Edgar Allan Poe Award winner Doug Allyn, Canadian writer Therese Greenwood, and one of EQMM’s classic contributors, Florence Mayberry. The road also takes some forward turns in time: There’s a thriller by New York Times Editor’s Choice List author Olen Steinhauer about Internet-generated crime and a thoroughly modern grifter’s tale by Gary Phillips. Readers won’t want to miss the humorous byways of the genre either, in stories by Liza Cody, Tom Tolnay, and Helen Tucker; or the rough alleys of a port city in the action-packed cliff-hanger by Barbara Paul. Finally, there’s the dark end of the street, represented by Susan B. Kelly’s third-place winning story from MWA’s Golden Anniversary Contest and Raymond Steiber’s 2003 Edgar Allan Poe Award winner for Best Short Story. Last but certainly not the least of the noir selections is a story from Ireland’s celebrated Ken Bruen. The journey comes to an end with Edgar Allan Poe Award winner Clark Howard’s story of a crook who lives and dies on the back roads of his own hometown.
Includes the following 14 stories:
KELLER THE DOGKILLER – Lawrence Block
THE GIN MILL – Doug Allyn
A DAY AT THE BEACH – Helen Tucker
LOSING MY RELIGION – Ken Bruen
THE OLD STORY – Liza Cody
MEXICAN GATSBY – Raymond Steiber
SMILING JOE AND THE TWINS – Florence V. Mayberry
THE RELUCTANT OP – Barbara Paul
THE OCCUPATIONAL REHABILITATION OF COUSIN HENRY – Tom Tolnay
A WAY WITH HORSES – Therese Greenwood
THE KIM NOVAK EFFECT – Gary Phillips
INVESTMENT IN VEVEY – Olen Steinhauer
STALKING HORSE – Susan B. Kelly
TO LIVE AND DIE IN MIDLAND, TEXAS – Clark Howard
VOLUME 2:
In this anticipated follow up to Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine’s first digital-only anthology, you’ll once again take the “low road” of grifters, hit men, and other career crooks, and come out with new insights into crime, revenge, and justice. Your path—led by stars like Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Lawrence Block, Edgar Award winner Doug Allyn, 2012 Agatha Award winner Dana Cameron, 2012 Dilys Award winner S.J. Rozan, and Edgar winner Edward D. Hoch—is winding, taking you through byways both humorous and deadly. You’ll follow the Prohibition-era gangsters of Mark Coggins and Lou Manfredo, and the contemporary mafiosos of Janice Law, Ed McBain, and Diamond Dagger award winner Peter Lovesey. With small-town scams and big-city hits, 2012 Shamus Award winner Michael Z. Lewin, film and television writer William Link, and award-winning novelist Andrew Klavan offer some comic relief, while Edgar nominee Kevin Wignall, Andrew Taylor, bestselling author Peri O’Shaugnessy, and EQMM Readers Award winner Clark Howard remind us where the Crooked Road can often lead. Edited by Janet Hutchings, this volume will surprise you with favorite series characters, dark humor, high stakes, and edge-of-your-seat suspense. Hold on tight, and don’t miss it!
Includes the following 17 stories:
WOOD-SMOKE BOYS – Doug Allyn
THE CITY OF RADIANT BRIDES – Janice Law
THE THEFT OF THE OSTRACIZED OSTRICH – Edward D. Hoch
RIDE A RED DRAGON – Mark Coggins
KELLER IN DALLAS – Lawrence Block
THE BEST SUIT – Peter Lovesey
DISARMING – Dana Cameron
WHEEZE – Michael Z. Lewin
A PATH TO SOMEWHERE – Lou Manfredo
A LITTLE SITDOWN – Ed McBain
HAL CHECKS OUT – Kevin Wignall
THE FURNACE MAN – Perri O’Shaughnessy
THE ASSASSIN’S LIST – Andrew S. Taylor
THE KILLER CHRISTIAN – Andrew Klavan
MURDER MEDIUM RARE – William Link
SILVERFISH – S. J. Rozan
THE STREET ENDS AT THE CEMETERY – Clark Howard
VOLUME 3:
Volume Three of The Crooked Road, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine’s high-speed pursuit of fiction’s criminal underworld, makes its first stop in the urban landscape of Liza Cody’s England, where the Silver Dagger winner spins a tale of prostitution and greed in “I Am Not Fluffy”, then heads off across the U.S. with the young grifters of Art Taylor’s Derringer nominated “Rearview Mirror.” The mean streets of Detroit’s music industry feature in multiple Edgar Award winner Doug Allyn’s “The Sultans of Soul,” while New York gangsters appear in Mike Baron’s satirical “Five Stars.” Every legitimate business has its underside, as the crooked lawyers of V. S. Kemanis’s “Collector’s Find,” the pro wrestling cheats of Chris Muessig and Steve Seder’s “Death Match,” the swindlers hiding behind a catering business in Marilyn Todd’s “Something Rather Fishy,” and thugs working the auto-salvage business in Therese Greenwood’s “Wrecked” know all too well. The hit man of bestseller Lawrence Block’s “Who Knows Where It Goes” travels side by side between these covers with the hired muscle of Edgar winner Steve Hamilton’s “The Weight,” the deadly petty offenders of International Thriller Award winner Tim L. Williams’s “Where That Morning Sun Goes Down,” the poacher on the run in Edgar winner Clark Howard’s “White Wolves,” and the narco traffickers of Roger Jones’s “Clouds” and Stephen T. Vessels’ “Doloroso.” Con artists, buccaneers, and thieves take the wheel in Mary Jane Maffini’s multiple award-winning story “So Much in Common,” Toni L. P. Kelner’s swashbuckling adventure “The Pirate’s Debt,” and bestseller Jeffery Deaver’s “The Westphalian Ring.” But watch out: There’s no time to put on the brakes. .
Includes the following 17 stories:
I AM NOT FLUFFY by Liza Cody
REARVIEW MIRROR by Art Taylor
THE SULTANS OF SOUL by Doug Allyn
FIVE STARS by Mike Baron
COLLECTOR’S FIND by V.S. Kemanis
CLOUDS by Roger Jones
THE WESTPHALIAN RING by Jeffery Deaver
WRECKED by Therese Greenwood
WHERE THAT MORNING SUN GOES DOWN by Tim L. Williams
WHITE WOLVES by Clark Howard
THE PIRATE’S DEBT by Toni L.P. Kelner
DEATH MATCH by Chris Muessig & Steve Seder
SOMETHING RATHER FISHY by Marilyn Todd
DOLOROSO by Stephen T. Vessels
WHO KNOWS WHERE IT GOES by Lawrence Block
SO MUCH IN COMMON by Mary Jane Maffini
THE WEIGHT by Steve Hamilton
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