Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. Vol. 134, Nos. 3 & 4. Whole Nos. 817 & 818, September/October 2009

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A new paperback-original novel by Dave Zeltserman, entitled Pariah, is expected from Serpent’s Tail shortly after this issue goes on sale. It’s described by fellow crime writer Ken Bruen as having “the perfect pitch of reality, history, crime, celebrity... and sheer astounding writing.” Sounds like Mr. Zeltserman is on a roll. His 2008 novel, Small Crimes, made the Washington Post’s list of the best books of 2008 and NPr’s pick of the top five crime/mystery novels of the year. He’s tried something very different here, and pulled it off brilliantly!

We were at the dog track, Julius Katz and I. I had finished relaying to Julius the odds I’d calculated for the greyhounds running in the third race; odds that were calculated by building thousands of analytical models simulating each dog’s previous races, then, in a closed loop, continuously adjusting the models until they accurately predicted the outcome of each of these races. After that, I factored in the current track and weather conditions, and had as precise a prediction as was mathematically possible. Julius stood silently mulling over what I had given him.

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