Ellery Queen’s Anthology. Volume 12, 1967

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This is the 12th in EQMM’s series of original paperback anthologies, now published twice a year...

The Editors’ Note intended for this anthology was ready to be set in type when we read a review in the February 13, 1966 issue of “Book Week,” the Sunday literary supplement of the New York “Herald Tribune.” After “counting to ten” (slowly) we decided to write a new introduction for this anthology.

The review that so upset us was written by Kenneth Lamott on Helen MacInnes’ novel titled The Double Image. The first paragraph of the review read: “On occasion, being bed-bound for a day or trapped in the cabin of a transcontinental airliner, I have read a suspense novel. Except under such desperate circumstances, I haven’t found much entertainment in these books, for, with the exceptions of A Coffin for Demetrios [sic] and The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, I can’t remember any that didn’t seem to be all machinery and travelogue, without any of the saving graces that can make novel-reading a positive pleasure rather than an anesthetic.”

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