Murder Most Postal: Homicidal Tales That Deliver a Message

Publisher Marketing: In the 21 stories in Murder Most Postal, all by masters of the mystery genre, the mail takes centre stage. Edgar Allan Poe is here with his classic detective tale of a letter gone astray and the cunning way in which it is retrieved. Lawrence Block tells of the correspondence between a death-row inmate and the brother of the woman he killed, and of the deadly consequences for both. Ellery Queen investigates a puzzling philatelic theft. And Matt Costello writes of letters in cyberspace, as a man pours out his heart to a stranger in a chat room in the last messages he will ever write. The stories and their authors are: Like a Bone in the Throat by Lawrence Block * The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe * An Act of Violence by William F. Nolan * The Corbett Correspondence by Agent No. 5 and Agent No. 6 * Agony Column by Barry N. Malzberg * Graduation by Richard Christian Matheson * Someone Who Understands Me by Matthew Costello * Letter to the Editor by Morris Hershman * The Coveted Correspondence by Ralph McInerny * A Nice Cup of Tea by Kate Kingsbury * Letter to His Son by Simon Brett * The Poisoned Pen by Arthur B. Reeve * A Literary Death by Martin H. Greenberg * The Adventure of the Penny Magenta by August Derleth * Letter From a Very Worried Man by Henry Slesar * Pure Rotten by John Lutz * Computers Don't Argue by Gordon R. Dickson * A Letter to Amy by Joyce Harrington * The Adventure of the One Penny Black by Ellery Queen * Make Yourselves at Home by Joan Hess * Deadlier Than the Mail by Evan Hunter Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 03/26/2001 pg. 67 (EAN 9781581821628, Paperback)