CRIME THROUGH
TIME
Berkeley Prime Crime Books,
1997 ISBN 0-425-15761-X
Twenty one historical whodunits were written
specifically for this volume and are appearing for the first time in
print. Edited by the best-selling authors Miriam Grace Monfredo
and Sharan Newman, this one-of-a-kind anthology will appeal to history
buffs, mystery buffs, and anyone who loves a good story.
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Includes:
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"Death of a Place Seeker" by Lynda S. Robinson,
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"Archimedes Tomb" by Steven Saylor,
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"Solomon's Decision" by Sharan Newman,
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"Murder at Anchor" by Edward Marston,
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"The Hangman's Apprentice" by Leonard Tourney,
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"Suffer a Witch" by Miriam Grace Monfredo,
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"The Lullaby Cheat" by Kate Ross,
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"Anything Dark" by Edward D. Hoch,
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"Bertie and the Boat Race" by Peter Lovesy,
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"The high Constable and the Visiting Author" by
Maan Meyers,
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"Look to the Lady" by Alanna Knight,
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"Mrs. Hudson's Case" by Laurie King,
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"Exit Centre Stage" by M. J. Trow,
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"Decision of the Umpire" by Troy Soos,
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"Uncle Charlie's Letters" by Anne Perry
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"Killing the Critic" by Gillian Linscott,
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"Portrait of the Artist as a Young Corpse" by
Barbara Paul,
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"The Mamur Zapt and the Kodaker's Eye" by Michael
Pearce,
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"Storm in a Tea Shoppe" by Carola Dunn,
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"The Enemy" by Ken Kuhlken
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"The Soldier and his Dead Companion" by Nicholas
A. DiChario.
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 CRIME
THROUGH TIME II Berkeley Prime Crime Books, 1998
ISBN 0-425-16410-1.
Crime Through Time was the remarkable first
collection. Now best-selling mystery authors Miriam Grace Monfredo
and Sharan Newman present Crime Through Time II -featuring even
never-before-published historical mysteries by award-winning British
and American writers.
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Includes:
- A Dominican friar investigates the murder of a holy child in
Spain during the later years of the Inquisition in Anne Perry's
"The Case of the Santo Nino"
- A woman discovers the mystery behind her sister's death in
England during WWII in Michael Coney's "Dorothy, Past and
Present"
- Walter Satterthwait presents a first person account
of the first detective's sleuthing in "Murder One"
- Miriam Grace Monfredo ("A mule Named Sal") and Maan
Myers ("The High Constable and the Rochester Rappers") both
write about old New York
- Sharan Newman's murder mystery "The Promised Land" takes
place on a Kansas prairie on the 1890's.
Spanning hundreds of years, from Europe to Asia, these tales offer
something special for readers of mystery, history- and simply good
short fiction. The full list of authors includes in addition
to the above, Edward D. Hoch, Gillian Liscott, Nancy Kress, John
Maddox Roberts, Elizabeth Foxwell, Edward Marston, Sarah Smith,
Dianne Day, Jan Burke, Laura Joh Rowland, Carole Nelson Douglas,
Robert Bernard, and William Wu.
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 CRIME
THROUGH TIME III
Berkeley Prime Crime Books,
1999 ISBN 0-425-17509-X
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Includes:
- Andrew Greeley introduces a monk of the Middle Ages who
investigates corruption in the Vatican to crack "The Case of the Murdered
Pope"
- Sir John Fielding, a blind eighteenth-century magistrate, confronts
crime at a stuffy dinner party in Bruce Alexander's "The Episode
of the Water Closet"
- The hot sun of turn-of-the-century India beats down on a novice
constable's first murder case in H.R.F. Keating's "Howard"
- In Sharyn McCrumb's "Lark in the Morning" a hermit reaches
beyond the seclusion of her cell to bring a murderer to justice
- Peter Lovesey's tale takes place in Victorian London, where
a woman is trapped in her own home with "Dr. Death"
- Miriam Grace Monfredo's "A Single Spy" tells the story of
a Vietnam war widow's discovery of a Civil War mystery in her own
back yard
- In Margaret Coel's "Murder on the Denver Express", the "unsinkable"
Molly Brown tries her hand at sleuthing
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