Crippen & Landru recently e-mailed us announcing the publication of two long-anticipated books.
The first is A Tale About a Tiger and Other Mysterious Events by S. J. Rozan. S. J. Rozan is the multi-award winning master of private eye mysteries, most coming from the streets of New York. Included in A Tale About a Tiger are some of her best stories, many centering around the cases of Lydia Chin. Whether going undercover to find a videotape which would prove the guilt of an acquitted murders, uncovering the truth about a subway rape, or helping a smuggler of Asian artifacts, Chin is not afraid to dig deep into New York’s underbelly in pursuit of justice. Also included is the acclaimed short story "Hoops," in which an apparent murder-suicide of a local high school basketball star and his girlfriend leaves more to be uncovered.
Rozan has won the Edgar, Shamus, Anthony, Nero, and Macavity awards for Best Novel and the Edgar for Best Short Story, and she is a former President of the Private Eye Writers of America and member of the national boards of Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime. The book includes a complete checklist of all her mystery writings.
A Tale About a Tiger is available in two formats: a trade paperback and a limited edition (225 signed, numbered copies) hardcover.
The second title is The Murder at the Stork Club and Other Mysteries by Vera Caspary. Vera Caspary (1889-1987), playwright and novelist, is best remembered for the novel which led to the great Otto Preminger movie, Laura, but she also wrote novellas and novelettes which combined mystery and suspense with an awareness of gender and class issues. Working-class sleuths in high-class settings (like New York’s famed Stork Club), sexual and work-place tension, Nazi spies during the Second World War, complex characters – all these elements were combined in Caspary’s writing with an impeccable smoothness in plotting. In one story, she even has a gathering of suspects at the denouement in the tradition of Agatha Christie.
The Murder in the Stork Club and Other Mysteries is edited by Caspary-expert A. B. Emrys. It is the 29th in Crippen & Landru’s “Lost Classics” series – never previously collected stories by great writers of traditional mysteries, and is available in two formats: hardcover and trade paperback.
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