Product Description

"Watch out for mayhem around every corner in Murder New York Style! Explore Manhattan, The Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, Westchester, and the Outer Reaches. The twenty-one stories in this anthology are classic New York. Imagine bargain shopping in Chinatown, working in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, belly dancing in a Turkish nightclub, or teaching a course at a diverse New York College. These are some of the circumstances and locations that find murder and mayhem around every corner in Murder New York Style. Several stories are set in the New York of days gone by. Among those, one takes place during a 1913 labor strike, and another explores the effects of the House Un-American Activities Committee on the New York cultural community. One Brooklyn story solves a mystery involving an eighty year old murder and the ghost of a Hessian soldier from the Revolutionary War. The Stories and Authors are: Pick up Dry Cleaning, Commit the Perfect Murder by Cynthia Baxter, Name Tagging by Randy Kandel, Mister Right by Ronnie Klaskin, Death Will Clean Your Closet by Elizabeth Zelvin, La Bruha del Barrio by R.M. Peluso, I Love Alana by Marianna Heusler, The Knock-off by Chelle Martin, Strike Zone by Terri Farley Moran, A Voice to Remember by Margaret Mendel, Out in the Cold by Meredith Cole, NYPDaughter by Triss Stein, The House on Lake Place by Dorothy Mortman, Murder in the Aladdin¿s Cave by Lina Zeldovich, The Lie by Anita Page, A Day at a Time by Fran Brannigan Cox, Family Matters by Peggy Ehrhart, None of the Above by Deirdre Verne, What About Henry? by Pearl Wolf, Friendly Witness by Erica Harth, Casino Gamble by Nan Higginson, and Murder in the Mill by M.E. Kemp."

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1453189 in Books
• Published on: 2007-10-18
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 340 pages

Customer Reviews

Variety is the spice of New York life
One of the most enjoyable aspects to this collection of short stories is the variety of characters and locations depicted. The characters are from all walks of life from college professor to bellydancer, and each story is set in a different borough of New York City. Each of the short story authors is very familiar with their home turf, and half the pleasure of the book is recognizing neighborhoods you may have known. The plots are intriguing, too! I enjoyed this collection very much.

Ya Gotta Love These Stories
Great idea for a book, and great book -- for New Yorkers and those who aren't lucky enough to be New Yorkers. Since I grew up in the Bronx, those were the first stories I turned to, and they were terrific. They would have been terrific even I didn't know the very street corners mentioned, but with that added bonus, they were even better. Then, because my husband grew up in Queens, I read those. Also terrific. The details were so anchoring, the stories gripping. Then I skipped around, geographically speaking. Page and Cox were my favorites overall, but that doesn't mean I don't love da Bronx because I do, y'unnastan?

Shades of Ellery Queen
Good reading. I'd forgotten that I'd love the Ellery Queen magazine years ago and this was a good reminder.