David Stuart Davies - Crime Scenes

David Stuart Davies (ed.) - Crime Scenes (Wordsworth Editions, 2008)



David Stuart Davies - Introduction

Natasha Cooper - Under The Cherry Tree
Edward Marston - Yes And No
Judith Cutler - Initial Impressions
Martin Edwards - Eternally
Bill Kirton - Missing
Peter Lovesey - Showmen
Margaret Murphy - A Certain Resolution
Russell James - Brace Yourself
Joan Lock - A Regular Correspondent
Paul Freeman - Written In Stone
Judith Cutler - Shaping The Ends
Jerry Sykes - Colour Me Blood 124
Gillian Linscott - A dead language
Peter Guttridge - The Postman Only Rings If He Can Be Bothered
Martin Edwards - Melusine
Natasha Cooper - Green Wounds
Rafe McGregor -.Contre Temps
Peter Lovesey - The perfectionist
Christine Poulson - The Lammergeier Vulture
Russell James - Lost
David Stuart Davies - The obstacle
Keith Miles - Slaughter in the Strand
Sarah Rayne - The Masquerade
Jerry Sykes - Symptoms Of Loss
Margaret Murphy - Big End Blues
Yvonne Eve Walus - Murder In The Air
Phil Lovesey - Homework
Adrian Magson - Special Delivery
Matthew Booth - A Darkness Discovered

Blurb:
Crime Scenes is a sparkling collection of short stories written by modern masters and mistresses of the crime fiction genre. Within these pages you will find tales of murder, mystery and mayhem in a great variety of styles and tones from the time-honoured whodunnit to the psychological chiller to the history mystery to the crime procedural to the noir thriller to the gangster epic and the darkly humorous narrative. This volume demonstrates clearly how the crime story has developed and matured over the last two hundred years or so into the exciting, thought-provoking and thoroughly entertaining form of fiction it is today. The impressive cast of contributors includes well-respected and well-established names such as Peter Lovesey, Edward Marston, Natasha Cooper, Judith Cutler and Russell James as well as those currently making their reputation as fine exponents of their craft and a few young lions whose work is bristling with promise. Crime Scenes is a treasure chest of delights for the fans of crime fiction.

Anyone had the pleasure? Found a copy at the market yesterday. Not sampled any of the fiction and there are several on-the-go horror's to round off before I do, but from David Stuart Davis's as ever excellent introduction seems this is that rarest of beasts, a Wordsworth anthology of contemporary fiction. I wonder how the sales rack up against the vintage titles?