The Zanzibar Shirt and Other Stories Grandmaster Award This is the thirty-ninth volume

This is the thirty-ninth volume in Crippen & Landru's Lost Classics series -- previously uncollected detective and mystery stories by great writers of the past

A MEMORIAL TO THE TRIPLE EDGAR WINNER

including a locked-room mystery ("An Irish Jig")

Edith Maxwell writes the Agatha Award-winning and Macavity-nominated Quaker Midwife Mysteries and Agatha-nominated short crime fiction

Miracles of resourcefulness

The Zanzibar Shirt and Other Stories Grandmaster Award This is the thirty-ninth volumeMurder in a Familiar Setting Since time began, authors have been told to write what they know. James Holding (1907 1997) took that advice to heart. After his retirement from advertising, Holding began writing full time. One of his early ghostwriting gigs was continuing the Ellery Queen Jr novels, which had first appeared in the 1940s. The two cousins who wrote as Ellery Queen, Fred Dannay and Manfred Lee, hired Holding to jumpstart the series after a