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Francis M. Nevins has been a legal aid lawyer,
a law school professor, an enthusiastic scholar
of classic mystery fiction (particularly the work
of Cornell Woolrich), and—for almost forty years—an
accomplished author of short stories and novels. He has won
an Edgar award twice from the Mystery Writers of America,
for scholarly books on Ellery Queen and Woolrich.
A collection of Mr. Nevins’s nonfiction, Cornucopia of Crime,
was published in 2010. He lives with his
wife in University City, Missouri.
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Ranging from classic whodunits to bone-chilling
suspense, here are twenty-eight adventures
of Nevins’s familiar series characters:
lawyer-sleuth Loren Mensing, scamster Milo Turner,
lady cop Gene Holt, along with a bevy of stand-alones,
including “Open Letter to Survivors.”
Fittingly, as many of the stories appeared first
in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Nevins provides
an introduction recalling fondly his early mentoring
by EQMM’s founding editor Fred Dannay. The author
adds historical notes in an afterword to each story.
NIGHT FORMS
by Francis M. Nevins
378 pages. $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-935797-00-5
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