Shoveling Smoke: Selected Mystery Stories Style:Clothbound He is the creator of

He is the creator of Victorian sleuths Sergeant Cribb and Constable Thackeray

co-author of the definitive Detective Fiction: The Collector's Guide

she often set her mysteries in English villages

In the clever “The Riddle of the Black Spade

Cuddy - Plus One puts in book form thirteen previously uncollected cases about Cuddy - including four nominees for the Shamus Award for Best Private-Eye Short story

Shoveling Smoke: Selected Mystery Stories Style:Clothbound He is the creator ofThe 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