Shadow Alley: Nine Crime Stories

by Lucy Sussex

Shadow Alley is a compilation of short crime stories written around the premise of detectives when they were teenagers.

214 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1995

About the author

Lucy Sussex's books include Blockbuster! Fergus Hume and The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, which won the 2015 Victorian Community History Award, Women Writers and Detectives in the Nineteenth Century and Saltwater in the Ink: Voices from the Australian Seas. She has a PhD from the University of Wales and is an honorary fellow at La Trobe University. Her forthcoming book is Outrageous Fortunes.

Reviews

[Jessica G · Rating 5 out of 5]

This collection of short stories was a massive influence on me writing crime fiction when I first accidentally stumbled across it at a secondhand book sale in like 2004. Every single story has its charm, but I have a particular attachment to The Terrific Two Get Busted by Alison Goodman.