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Summary
(From the publisher):
Crime Through Time was the remarkable first collection. Now, betselling mystery authors Miriam Grace Monfredo and Sharan Newman present Crime Through Time II- featuring even more never-before-published historical mysteries by award-winning British and American writers.
A Dominican friar investigates the murder of a holy child in Spain during the later years in the Inquisition in Anne Perry's "The Case of the Santo Niņo"...A woman discovers the mystery behind her sister's death in England during World War II in Michael Coney's "Dorothy, Past and Present"...Walter Satterthwait presents a first-person account of the first detective's sleuthing in "Murder One"...Miriam Grace Monfredo ("A Mule Named Sal") and Maan Meyers (The High Constable and the Rochester Rapper") both write about old New York, and Sharan Newman's murder mystery "The Promised Land" takes place on a Kansas praries in the 1890s. Spanning hundreds of years, from Europe to Asia to America, these tales offer something special for readers of mystery, history- and simply good short fiction.
Complete list of stories: (All stories copyright 1998)
- Murder One by Walter Satterthwait
- The Etruscan House John Maddox Roberts
- Domesday Deferred by Edward Marston
- The Movable City by Edward D. Hoch
- The Case of the Santo Niņo by Anne Perry
- Anna and the Mirror by Dianne Day
- Mizu-Age by Laura Joh Rowland
- A Scientific Education by Nancy Kress
- A Mule Named Sal by Miriam Grace Monfredo
- Sense and Sensuality by Rober Barnard
- The High Constable and the Rochester Rappers by Maan Meyers
- The Ballad of Gentleman Jem by Gillian Linscott
- The Hungry Ghost of Panamint by William F. Wu
- The Promised Land by Sharan Newman
- Mesmerizing Bertie by Carole Nelson Douglas
- A Man of My Stature by Jan Burke
- Fearful by Sarah Smith
- Unsinkable by Elizabeth Foxwell
- Dorothy Past and Present by Michael Coney
Edited by: Miriam Grace Monfredo and Sharan Newman.
Original title: Crime Through Time II
Original languages:
English
Quotes:
Genre: Fiction→ Crime and Mystery→ Detective Story and Detectives→ Historical
The following works are contained within this one: Movable City, the (1998) [Short Story] Author: Edward D. Hoch
Dorothy Past and Present (1998) [Short Story] Author: Michael Coney
Murder One (1998) [Short Story] Author: Walter Satterthwait
Case of the Santo Niņo, the (1998) [Short Story] Author: Anne Perry
Anna and the Mirror (1998) [Short Story] Author: Dianne Day
Mesmerizing Bertie (1998) [Short Story] Author: Carole Nelson Douglas
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