A collection of mystery stories culled from the pages of "Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine" and "Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine" features the work of John Mortimer, G.K. Chesterton, and Ralph McInerny
- The Dutiful Son, Ralph McInerny - The Second Commandment, Charlotte Armstrong - Death of an Alumnus, Janet O'Daniel - The Price of Light, Ellis Peters - A Face to Remember, Mary Amlaw - The Man in the Passage, G.K. Chesterton - Justina, Dorothy Salisbury Davis - In the Confessional, Alice Scanlan Reach - Rumpole and the Man of God, John Mortimer
Cynthia Manson is a literary agent, formerly Director of Marketing at Davis Publications, publishers of Ellery Queen and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazines. She has also edited several anthologies.
I needed some short stories for what would be an indeterminable period in a waiting room. I'm through five of the ten, 153 out of 255 pages (60%). Mixed bag, as anthologies always are.
Done; and most of the stories were pretty good. One of the longest was the most disappointing--not really a crime, not really any sleuthing.