Resume Speed and Other Stories

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You know, I get that far and suddenly I’m at a loss for words. On the one hand, I’ve said it all. On the other, well, what is there to say?

I’ve been trying to find a common element uniting the seven works of fiction in this book. There would seem to be three: I wrote them all, they’re all comfortable under the broad canopy of crime fiction, and until now they haven’t been collected. The earliest story was written in 1960, which is 58 years ago as I write these lines, and could slip even further into the past by the time you read them. Another came three years later. A third was written in the 1990s, lost for twenty years or more, and first published in 2016. The other four were written and published within the past several years.

So why don’t I take them one at a time? A little trip down Memory Lane, undertaken while I still have some of my memory available to me, might be of some interest.

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