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.