Shoveling Smoke: Selected Mystery Stories Style:Clothbound Cuddy - Plus One puts

Cuddy - Plus One puts in book form thirteen previously uncollected cases about Cuddy - including four nominees for the Shamus Award for Best Private-Eye Short story

she often set her mysteries in English villages

and a checklist of the author's mystery fiction

In the clever “The Riddle of the Black Spade

Crippen & Landru is fortunate to be able to do so

Shoveling Smoke: Selected Mystery Stories Style:Clothbound Cuddy - Plus One putsThe creator of Judge Deborah Knott and Lt. Sigrid Harald and the winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel, Margaret Maron is one of the finest contemporary mystery writers. Maron has a sensitivity about how time and place influence people and events, about how past generations continue to affect our world, about how the domestic situation can breed both warmth and quiet despair. In short, Maron sees the mystery story as concerned with people as well