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Homicidal Tales that Deliver a Message
Special Delivery indeed! This collection of twenty-one stories by masters of mystery--including Evan Hunter, Ellery Queen, Gordon R. Dickson, and more--is about purloined postage, lethal letters, and cold-blooded correspondence. From Edgar Allan Poe's nineteenth-century classic "The Purloined Letter," which tells of a missive gone astray and cunning way in which it is retrieved, to Matthew Costello's very twenty-first-century chat-room intrigue, "Someone Who Understands Me," these tales are first-class examples of just how dangerous getting in touch can be.

Publishers Weekly

From the same series and the same anthologist, Murder Most Postal: Homicidal Tales That Deliver a Message offers epistolary mystery and horror from 21 writers. In Greenberg's story, a hubristic young author is fatally cursed by a scorned publisher. Joyce Harrington tells of a lonely inmate sending letters out into the void. Ellery Queen and Edgar Allan Poe are also featured. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.