The Washington Times published my On Crime Column on The Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2021.
Mystery and
crime short stories are popular with readers and Otto Penzler (seen in the below photo), the president and CEO of MysteriousPress.com and the owner of the
Mysterious Bookshop in New York City, offers another fine anthology of crime
and mystery short stories.
“The Best
Mystery Stories of the Year 2021,” guest-edited by Lee Child, the author of the Jack Reacher
thriller series, offers short stories from some of our best writers, such as
James Lee Burke, Stephen King and Joyce Carrol Oates.
“Long ago, I
came to agree with the brilliant John Dickson Carr, who wisely averred that the
natural form of the traditional mystery is not the novel but the short
story,” Otto Penzler noted in the introduction to
the book. “It is not uncommon for a detective story to revolve around a single
significant clue – which can be discovered, divulged, and its importance
explained in a few pages. Everything else is embellishment, and novels have
more of this than short stories.”
You can read
the rest of the column via the below link:
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/apr/14/book-review-the-best-mystery-stories-of-the-year-2/
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