Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. Vol. 130, Nos. 3 & 4. Whole Nos. 793 & 794, September/October 2007

Эд Горман, Лоуренс Блок, Марсия Мюллер, Эми Майерс, Билл Пронзини, Эдвард Д. Хох, Кларк Ховард, Донна Эндрюс, Скотт Уильям Картер, Sheila Kohler, Laura Benedict, Janice Law, Лорен Д. Эстелман, Мик Геррон, Джеймс Пауэлл, Том Толнаи, Джанет Хатчингс, Mark Barsotti, Marc R. Soto

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Bill Pronzini is the author of 66 novels, including three in collaboration with his wife, Marcia Muller, and 32 in his popular “Nameless Detective” series. (See Savages, Forge, ’07). He is a multiple Shamus Award winner, and a recipient of both the PWA’s Lifetime Achievement Award and France’s Grand Prix de la Littérature Policière. A character from this story is borrowed by Marcia Muller for her story “Pickpocket.”

Sabina said, “A ghost?”

Barnaby Meeker bobbed his shaggy head. “A strange apparition of unknown origin, Mrs. Carpenter. I’ve seen it with my own eyes more than once.”

“In Carville, of all places?”

“In a scattering of abandoned cars near my home there. Floating about inside different ones and then rushing out across the dunes.”

“How can a group of abandoned horse-traction cars possibly be haunted?”

“How, indeed?” Meeker said mournfully. “How, indeed?”

“And you say this apparition fled when you chased after it?”

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