Saturday, September 23, 2023

SMFS Members Published in School of Hard Knox


Several SMFS list members are published in School of Hard Knox. Published by Crippen & Landru Publishers last month, the anthology is available in a variety of formats from the publisher, Amazon, and other vendors. The SMFS list members in the read are:

 

Editor Donna Andrews with “Not Another Secret Passage Story."

 

Toni L.P. Kelner with “Baby Trap.”

 

Marcia Talley with “The Island Boy Detective Agency.”

 

Editor Art Taylor with "Ordeals."

 

Description:

Rebels with a Cause!

Nearly 100 years ago, The Reverend Monsignor Ronald Knox of the famed Detection Club developed ten rules-a Decalogue he called them-that he felt were "necessary to the full enjoyment of a detective story." Fairness with readers seemed an author's highest calling, and-lo!-"the faculty for writing a good mystery story is rare."

Writers (those heretics!) regularly bristle at a challenge, and being told that a literary twist is forbidden makes their fingers twitch at the keyboard.

This anthology contains fourteen of today's outstanding English and American short story authors, trying their best to break one-or more!-of the good monsignor's rules. Twins, supernatural events, and sleuths not sharing their clues are all in here-transgressions in all directions.

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