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Fiction Hard-boiled

A Murder's Coming

by (author) James Powell

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

    ISBN
    9781771611336
    Publish Date
    May 2015
    List Price
    $14.99

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Description

The fourth volume in Mosaic Press's Dime Crime series, brings together some of the greatest stories from a legend of short crime fiction, James Powell. A master stylist and an ingenious plot maker, Powell is relentlessly logical, often hilarious, and swift. Included here are some of Powell's greatest, and award winning, stories, including those featured in Playboy and every major mystery magazine. Classic stories like "A Dirge for Clowntown" which won the Ellery Queen Readers' Award and "Bottom Walker," which won the Arthur Ellis Award.

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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