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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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"Fun through the last wry line." Publishers Weekly
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Two capers by the suave (and if he does admit it, handsome) scam
artist Milo Turner, who has been entertaining readers
of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine for decades.
In THE 120 HOUR CLOCK, the love of Turner's life (a scamstress,
of course) dies in the middle of a complicated scheme.
Suspecting murder, Milo sets out for revenge . . . and money.
In THE NINETY MILLION DOLLAR MOUSE, Milo Turner takes on
a religious cult, hoping to prove a high-tech mogul's
handwritten will is a forgery. All he has to do is walk into the
cult's home town and snatch a bundle of love letters
the mogul supposedly wrote as a teenager. Easy enough.
It's not as though anyone would try to kill him . . .
These new editions contain Afterwords by the author, two-time
Edgar winner Francis M. Nevins, as well as reprints of the early
short stories that inspired the novels.
THE 120 HOUR CLOCK FRANCIS M. NEVINS
134 PAGES $8.00 ISBN: 978-1-935797-37-1
THE NINETY MILLION DOLLAR MOUSE FRANCIS M. NEVINS
134 PAGES $8.00 ISBN: 978-1-935797-36-4
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LOVE AND NIGHT
Unknown Stories by Cornell Woolrich
Edited by Francis M. Nevins
192 pages $12.00 ISBN: 978-1-935797-35-7
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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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