Under the Gun - Softcover

Various

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0452264065 ISBN 13: 9780452264069

Publisher: Plume, 1990

Synopsis

Presents the works of today's most highly acclaimed mystery and suspense writers, from Dean Koontz to Antonia Frazier, in a collection of thirty chilling tales

About this title

About the Author

Ed Gorman, winner of numerous awards, including the Shamus, the Spur, and the International Fiction Writer’s Award, is the author of many novels, including Cold Blue Midnight and the first two Sam McCain mysteries, The Day the Music Died and Wake Up Little Susie. He has also been nominated for the Edgar, the Anthony, the Golden Dagger, and the Bram Stoker Awards. He lives in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Robert J. Randisi is the author of the Miles Jacoby, Nick Delvecchio, and Joe Keough mystery series. He has been nominated four times for the Shamus Award from the Private Eye Writers of America. In 1993 he was the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Southwest Mystery/Suspense Convention. He is the editor of more than 25 print and audio anthologies, including the Deadly Allies, Lethal Ladies, For Crime Out Loud and First Cases series. His most recent anthologies are The Shamus Game (NAL, 2000) and Mystery Street (NAL, 2001), both PWA anthologies.

His most recent book, Blood on the Arch (St. Martin’s Press, 2000), a “Joe Keough” novel, will be published in paperback from Leisure Books this fall. The year 2001 will see the publication of the novel The Masks of Auntie Laveau, co-authored with Christine Matthews, as well as Delvecchio’s Brooklyn, a collection of his “Nick Delvecchio” short stories. He is the Founder and Permanent Executive Director of the Private Eye Writers of America, the creator of the Shamus Award, the co-founder of Mystery Scene magazine and The American Crime Writer’s League, and the former mystery reviewer for The Orlando Sentinel.

Reviews

A few gems sparkle in this mostly mediocre omnibus. Bill Crenshaw's Edgar-winning "Flicks" brilliantly dissects a burnt-out cop on the trail of a serial killer who slashes his victims as they watch horror movies, and probes the psyche of an audience whose thirst for gore is unquenchable. Clark Howard's first-rate "The Dakar Run" makes a tense car rally the occasion for a strained father-daughter reconciliation, and an atheist meditates on the existence of an afterlife in Dean R. Koontz's lovely "Twilight of the Dawn." But readers will solve Sara Paretsky's crime long before her PI V.I. (Victoria) Warshawski, and Simon Brett spins a trendy, dull yarn on AIDS. F. Paul Wilson offensively portrays a mentally retarded woman as a monster; the connection between his detective and a criminal who literally eats pretty faces is contrived and soppy. Gorman and Randisi are publisher and editor-in-chief of Mystery Scene magazine, where some of these stories first appeared.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Plume
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0452264065
• ISBN 13: 9780452264069
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416
• Editor: Gorman Ed, Randisi Robert J.