Murder by the Tale by Dell Shannon (1987)

Murder by the Tale
by Dell Shannon
Publisher:  William Morrow and Company, Inc.
Copyright:  1987
Book Club Edition

Dell Shannon, "the reigning doyenne of the U.S. police procedurals"(Kirkus Reviews) is back!  Murder by the Tale is the perfect short-story collection for her thousands of fans, because it gives them eight never-before-published stories featuring the popular Lieutenant Luis Mendoza of the Los Angeles Police Department as well as six fine nonseries tales.  We see the full range of Dell Shannon's diabolical talent as a writer of crime fiction -- from the nitty-gritty realism of the Mendoza stories to the creepy supernaturalism.

Here are some of the cases Mendoza and his colleagues face:

* A very smart lawyer is charged with a very dumb murder in The Clue.

* The Cat is about an exasperated husband who may have murdered his nagging wife -- but would he have killed his beloved pet as well?

* A young girl dies when a parked truck slips its brakes and slams into the house where she's sitting in the front room.  It's tragic, but it couldn't be anything except an Accident, or could it?

And in other stories you'll meet people like:

* A nursing-home resident who suspects that old age is not the only thing that's eliminating his cronies in Happy Release.

* A housewife who's convinced her child's toy has diabolical powers in Rannysore.

* And another housewife who just might mean it when she says to her boring husband, "George, if you tell that story again I'll kill you . . ." in They Will Call It Insane.

Mystery lovers everywhere will devour these delightful tales from one of the most beloved crime storytellers ever!

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