Murder New York Style

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This edition of Murder New York Style is no longer in print. For selections collected in a new volume, see Deadly Debut.

Watch out for mayhem around every corner in Murder New York Style! Explore Manhattan, The Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, Westchester, and the Outer Reaches. The twenty-one stories in this anthology are classic New York. Imagine bargain shopping in Chinatown, working in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, belly dancing in a Turkish nightclub, or teaching a course at a diverse New York College. These are some of the circumstances and locations that find murder and mayhem around every corner in Murder New York Style. Several stories are set in the New York of days gone by. Among those, one takes place during a 1913 labor strike, and another explores the effects of the House Un-American Activities Committee on the New York cultural community. One Brooklyn story solves a mystery involving an eighty year old murder and the ghost of a Hessian soldier from the Revolutionary War. The Stories and Authors are: Pick up Dry Cleaning, Commit the Perfect Murder by Cynthia Baxter, Name Tagging by Randy Kandel, Mister Right by Ronnie Klaskin, Death Will Clean Your Closet by Elizabeth Zelvin, La Bruha del Barrio by R.M. Peluso, I Love Alana by Marianna Heusler, The Knock-off by Chelle Martin, Strike Zone by Terri Farley Moran, A Voice to Remember by Margaret Mendel, Out in the Cold by Meredith Cole, NYPDaughter by Triss Stein, The House on Lake Place by Dorothy Mortman, Murder in the Aladdins Cave by Lina Zeldovich, The Lie by Anita Page, A Day at a Time by Fran Brannigan Cox, Family Matters by Peggy Ehrhart, None of the Above by Deirdre Verne, What About Henry? by Pearl Wolf, Friendly Witness by Erica Harth, Casino Gamble by Nan Higginson, and Murder in the Mill by M.E. Kemp.