Suitable for Hanging: Selected Stories

by Margaret Maron

MYSTERY & SUSPENSE FROM AN EDGAR WINNER The creator of Judge Deborah Knott and Lieutenant 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. In Maron’s work the mystery story is as concerned with people as well as with puzzles. Suitable for Hanging contains twenty of Margaret Maron’s best uncollected short stories, beginning with an early tale of a hitman trying to escape from the mob, to her newest stories about Deborah Knott and other mysteries set on Knott’s Colleton County. And one, featuring Roman Tramegra from the Lt. Sigrid Harald novels, takes place in Venice. The book includes two new short stories, and an introduction and prefaces to each story by the author as well as a complete checklist of Margaret Maron's writings in the mystery field. Cover painting, illustrating"The Dog That Didn't Bark," by Carol Heyer.

Genres: Mystery, Short Stories

210 pages, Paperback

First published January 24, 2004

About the author

Born and raised in central North Carolina, Margaret Maron lived in Italy before returning to the USA. In addition to a collection of short stories she also authored numerous mystery novels.

Her works have been translated into seven languages her Bootlegger's Daughter, a Washington Post Bestseller won Edgar Anthony, Agatha, and Macavity awards.

She was a past president of Sisters in Crime and of the American Crime writers' league, and a director on the national board for Mystery Writers of America.

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Reviews

[Kelly · Rating 4 out of 5]

Margaret Maron is a wonderful mystery author, and this collection of short mystery stories was lots of fun to read.

[RavenT · Rating 3 out of 5]

A readable and amusing collection if you like mysteries and short stories

[Janice · Rating 3 out of 5]

Short crime or psychological stories that have been published in other places. Good for a short read. Also interesting because in the beginning of the stories Maron tells where she got the ideas for them. There were one or two in the Deborah Knott world.

[Suzi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Short stories are great for those of us who can't go back to sleep. Maron's are among the best.

[Nikki · Rating 4 out of 5]

This collection of Margaret Maron's short stories may be difficult to find (I had to go to the second level of interlibrary loan to get it as it was a fairly limited edition), but it's well worth tracking down. Fans of the author's series books will be pleased to find some stories about Judge Deborah Knott and Deputy Dwight Bryant, as well as one with a character from her Sigrid Harald books. In addition, there are other stories of various kinds which show that Maron is a mistress of the craft of short-story writing as well as that of novel-writing. Highly recommended.

[Ed · Rating 4 out of 5]

A satisfying collection of short stories from the author of the Sigrid Harald and Deborah Knott mystery series.

Short Stories - 20 short stories, mostly mysteries, including 2 originals and several featuring characters from Maron's novels - Roman Tramegra, Dwight Bryant, and Deborah Knott. Originally published between 1970 and 2004.

[Marianna Monaco · Rating 3 out of 5]

mostly non-violent stories. My favorite - a one-pager titled "Devil's Island"