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Fiction Hard-boiled

A Murder Coming

by (author) James Powell

Publisher
Mosaic Press
Initial publish date
May 2015
Category
Hard-Boiled, Short Stories, Crime
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781771611367
    Publish Date
    May 2015
    List Price
    $14.99

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Description

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.”

About the author

James Powell is a retired senior Canadian central banker, and the author of A History of the Canadian Dollar.

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