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Murder Coming
A Murder Coming, the fourth volume in Mosaic Press s Dime Crime series, brings together some of the greatest stories from a legend of short crime fiction, James Powell. A master stylist and an ingenious plot maker, Powell is relentlessly logical, often hilarious, and swift. A Murder Coming includes some of Powell s greatest, and award winning, stories, including those featured in Playboy and every major mystery magazine. Included are classic stories like A Dirge for Clowntown which won the Ellery Queen Readers' Award and Bottom Walker, which won the Arthur Ellis Award. With an occasional dark sense of humour and developed irony Powell is a one-of-a-kind crime writer. Acclaimed crime writer Marvin Lachman referred to Powell as the " S.J. Perelman of the mystery story outrageous, hilarious satires [with] surprise endings. "
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First published January 1, 1990
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James Powell
135 books5 followersJames Powell (born 1932) is a Canadian author of mystery and humorous short stories.
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*The Friends of Hector Jouvet --
Have You Heard the Latest? --
*The Beddoes Scheme --
*The Eye of Shafti --
The Maze in the Elevator --
*The Altdorf Syndrome --
*Kleber on Murder in Thirty Volumes --
*The Gobineau Necklace --
Three Men in a Tub --
The Ascent of the Grimselhorn --
*A Murder Coming --
The Bee on the Finger --
*The Oubliette Cypher --
A Baksheesh from the North --
***
*A dirge for Clowntown --
Last laugh in Floogle Park --
Theft of the clown Jules --
The Mandalasian garrote --
The dark elf master of crack of doom --
The polygon from Alpha Centauri --
Under the spangled Roger --
The sting of the hoop snake --
The blue bread of happiness --
*The plot against Santa Claus --
Bianca and the seven sleuths --
MacNaughton or MacNeice --
Candy cane wars --
A cozy for the jack o'lanterns --
*The phantom haircut --
*The hiccup flask --
The mad scientist J.G. --
The coffee table book --
The black daffodil --
Blunt instruments --
The Stollmeyer sonnets --2
*Burning bridges --
*Death in the Christmas hour --
*Santa's way --
*Grist for the mills of Christmas --
*The Tamerlane crutch --
*The greenhouse dogs --
*Honeydew wine --
*Ruby laughter, tears of pearl --
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