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To spin tales as intriguing and thought provoking as these for three decades is a remarkable enough achievement. Even more remarkable is the sustained quality of the pieces — from the earliest, ‘Scream all the Way,’ a nifty almost-perfect-murder plot, to the most recent, ‘Family Values,’ a powerful, contemporary puzzle that the prize-winning author wrote for this collection.
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 FORTUNE'S WORLD
“Collins is one of the giants of private-eye fiction.”
— Ellery Queen magazine
“... surgically precise prose with the perfection of haiku.”
— Publishers Weekly
“Michael Collins is a master of the mystery.... Thought provoking and powerful ... Although each of these stories has the satisfying shape of a good mystery, they are never reductionist, never stoop to the white hat/black hat mentality of much of the genre. Presented in chronological order, they show Lynds’ increasing sophistication as a thinker and writer as he brings ever more potent and controversial universal themes to be examined, questions left to be resolved by your own conscience. Far more than the literary popcorn of much mystery writing, these accomplished stories will stick with you in surprising and interesting ways.”
— Santa Barbara News-Press
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