Shoveling Smoke: Selected Mystery Stories Style:Clothbound and a checklist of the

and a checklist of the author's mystery fiction

co-author of the definitive Detective Fiction: The Collector's Guide

He is the creator of Victorian sleuths Sergeant Cribb and Constable Thackeray

Crippen & Landru is fortunate to be able to do so

In the clever “The Riddle of the Black Spade

Shoveling Smoke: Selected Mystery Stories Style:Clothbound and a checklist of theThe creator of Judge Deborah Knott and Lt. Sigrid Harald and the winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel, Margaret Maron is one of the finest contemporary mystery writers. Maron has a sensitivity about how time and place influence people and events, about how past generations continue to affect our world, about how the domestic situation can breed both warmth and quiet despair. In short, Maron sees the mystery story as concerned with people as well