3rd Culprit: An Annual of Crime Stories

by Liza Cody (Editor), Michael Z. Lewin, Peter Lovesey (Editor)

A third collection of crime tales from the Crime Writers' Association includes the writings of Ruth Rendell, Sara Paretsky, William G. Tapply, and Donald E. Westlake, and features tales involving marital addictions, Chinese necromancy, good deeds, and bank vault alarms.

Genres: Short Stories, Crime, Mystery

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1994

About the author

Liza Cody (real name Liza Nassim) is an English crime fiction writer.

Reviews

[Rachel N. · Rating 3 out of 5]

A collection of mystery stories put together by the Crime Writers Association. The best of the bunch is by Donald Westlake. The rest is a random assortment with no thread connecting them. There are also a few cartoons thrown in that have nothing to do with mysteries. Not a very good collection but a few of the stories were worth reading.

[Laura · Rating 2 out of 5]

Poor collection. Implies that Caudwell wrote a story but in fact she contributed a crossword.