Crime and Puzzlement 5: On Martha's Vineyard, Mostly

Crime and Puzzlement #5

by Lawrence Treat, Paul Karasik (Illustrator)

Sam, of Martha Vineyard's All-Island Integrated Police Force, stars in twenty-four new picture mysteries, including "The Peek-a-Boo Girl," "Night of the Crabs," and "Incident at the Ferry." Original.

67 pages, Paperback

First published July 15, 1993

About the author

Lawrence Arthur Goldstone (1903 - 1998), better known by his pseudonym, Lawrence Treat, was an American mystery writer, a pioneer of the genre of novels that became known as police procedurals. A practicing lawyer before turning to writing, he was a founding member of the Mystery Writers of America and a two-time winner of the MWA's Edgar Award. His first award came in 1965, for the short story "H as in Homicide"; his second was a Special Edgar Award in 1978 for editing a new edition of the Mystery Writer's Handbook, the MWA's guide for aspiring mystery writers, first published in 1956.

As a member of the League of American Writers, he served on its Keep America Out of War Committee in January 1940 during the period of the Hitler-Stalin pact

Reviews

[Maxine · Rating 3 out of 5]

I thought that the fifth volume of Crime and Puzzlement would be more interesting, as many of the mysteries here are "On Martha's Vineyard." As it turns out, the coastal setting doesn't play into it so much, and the narratives are bit blander than in previous volumes. Maybe it's that, or maybe I'm just mad that I wasn't able to solve most of these!