Slot-Machine Kelly Style:Clothbound with Dust Jacket In a nearly 50-year writing

In a nearly 50-year writing career - which began in her native Canada and continued in Southern California - she earned the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar and Grand Master Awards

Van Dine pastiche by Jon L

That Certain Summer

fine writing and beautifully observed snapshots of modern life

stories to American newspaper supplements

Slot-Machine Kelly Style:Clothbound with Dust Jacket In a nearly 50-year writingA MASTER OF THE PRIVATE EYE TALE!! Dennis Lynds (1924 2005), who was best known for his work under the pseudonym "Michael Collins," was probably the most important and influential writer of private eye stories to emerge in the past fifty years. His series about one armed detective, Dan Fortune, which began with the Edgar winning Act of Fear (1967), is filled with the sense of pace, setting, and characterization of a master stylist, and the social