Manhattan Mayhem
Серия: Антология детектива, книга 2015
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In 2015, Mystery Writers of America celebrated its founding seventy years ago, in March 1945, during the closing days of World War II. The founding group consisted of ten women and men, eventually gaining membership to about one hundred by the end of its first year. I remember when I joined MWA over fifty years ago, only about ten tables were needed at the annual Edgar Awards banquet, a much more intimate affair than today’s glittery gala.
Back then, the joke we told was about the man who went to a cocktail party and was asked by another guest what kind of job he had.
“I’m a writer,” he said.
“Oh, that’s wonderful. What do you write?”
“Crime novels.”
Pause. Icy stare. Then the put-down. “I only read good books.”
That was then, this is now. Today, suspense and crime novels, “thrillers” as the English call them, have taken their place worldwide as an honored and thoroughly enjoyed branch of literature. And MWA has grown right alongside the genre. From its humble beginnings, when those ten authors met in Manhattan to form what would become today’s MWA, our venerable organization has grown to more than 3,500 members around the world.
