The Zanzibar Shirt and Other Stories Grandmaster Award including a locked-room mystery ("An

including a locked-room mystery ("An Irish Jig")

This volume includes a tribute to Edward Hoch by Crippen & Landru publisher (and friend of Mr

between the 1870's and 1890's such dime novel detectives as Old Sleuth

editor of Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine

The Zanzibar Shirt and Other Stories Grandmaster Award including a locked-room mystery ("AnMurder in a Familiar Setting Since time began, authors have been told to write what they know. James Holding (1907 1997) took that advice to heart. After his retirement from advertising, Holding began writing full time. One of his early ghostwriting gigs was continuing the Ellery Queen Jr novels, which had first appeared in the 1940s. The two cousins who wrote as Ellery Queen, Fred Dannay and Manfred Lee, hired Holding to jumpstart the series after a