Deadly Allies II: Private Eye Writers of America and Sisters in Crime Collaborative Anthology - Softcover

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9780553563177: Deadly Allies II: Private Eye Writers of America and Sisters in Crime Collaborative Anthology

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ISBN 10: 0553563173 ISBN 13: 9780553563177

Publisher: Bantam Books, 1995

Collects twenty-two original tales of murder, sex, blackmail, con artistry, revenge, and other crimes, passions, and misdemeanors, from some of today's leading crime and mystery writers. Reprint.

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From Publishers Weekly:

Drawing on talent from two mystery-writers groups, the Private Eye Writers of America and Sisters in Crime, this follow-up collection offers pairs of thematically linked short stories. While the first Deadly Allies garnered three award nominations and one winner, the star power of this sequel, while still impressive, is slightly muted. Readers would do well here to pick a juicy subject from those offered--including acting, architecture and rejected lovers--and then check out the two entries. Con games provide the springboard for John Lutz and Sarah Shankman. Lutz showcases his St. Louis shamus Alo Nudger tracking a woman glimpsed in a bus window; Shankman dips into her latest Samantha Adams novel He Was Her Man , to detail a classic bait-and-switch with a glamorous girl in a fancy car and an old hooker now owning an Arkansas gas station. Mining the premise that guilty husbands always make good killers, Marcia Muller and Maxine O'Callaghan explore the elusive nature of alibis as each of their entries features a wife dying messily. Among others on hand are Max Allan Collins, Les Roberts, Faye Kellerman and Marilyn Wallace.
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From Kirkus Reviews:

Following the Edgar-winning Deadly Allies: 11 pairs of stories on variously related themes (felonious spouses, con artists, the performing arts, etc.), half by members of the Private Eye Writers of America, half by Sisters in Crime. The product is a decidedly mixed bag. If the stories were all as good as the best of the bunch--S.J. Rozan's ``Film at Eleven'' and Benjamin Schultz's ``What Goes Around,'' professional tales of sting and countersting; Joan Hess' caustic ``Paper Trail,'' chronicling the gentle cross-plotting of a famous writer and her slavey; and ``Gentle Insanities,'' newcomer Christine Matthews' peek at a p.i.'s agonized private life--the anthology would be the bargain of the year. But most of the other big- name tenants--Marcia Muller, Jeremiah Healy, John Lutz, Max Allan Collins, Faye Kellerman, Loren D. Estleman, Marilyn Wallace, and both editors--have done better work elsewhere. Still: a generous double-helping from just the authors you'd want to have, even if they're holding less than a full house. -- Copyright �1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

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