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Loading... Investigations of Avram Davidsonby Avram Davidson
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. A real find; excellent more-or-less mystery stories; the ones that remain in my mind most strongly are historical mysteries. ( ) Avram Davidson was a master of the short story, regardless of genre, and I agree with Ellery Queen's opinion that the mystery is best suited to the short story form. Hence it is not surprising that Davidson, though best known as a fantasy writer, wrote some very competent mysteries, which are collected in this volume. The first story, "The Necessity of His Condition" is a brilliantly ironic tale of a pre-Civil War slave dealer who makes use of the fact that a slave could not testify in court to win a case unfairly --and then find only a slave's testimony could clear him being charged with murder --and of course the slave cannot testify. no reviews | add a review
"Collected here for the first time are Davidson's remarkable mystery tales, including: the 1840s murder investigations of New York's chief constable, Jacob Hays; a sinister lesson in New England thrift; a bride who disappears on her wedding day; a slavetrader and a deal gone terribly wrong; treachery in a nursing home; a greedy antiquarian repents his ways; expatriates who will kill for a little peace and quiet; and much ado about an exiled earl, Albanian Trotskyites, the Mafia, New Amsterdam river pirates, and the aspiring hooligans known as the Nafia (who "control all the gumball and India nut machines south of Vesey Street")."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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