Murder and mystery in Boston
In a chowder house a group of Boston Brahmins discover that even among the elite the basest urge - murder - can surface. Twilight terror stalks Boston Common where a murderer cloaks himself in the deceptive light of dusk. Queen Street is agog in 1722 when the body of the candlemaker is found encased in green wax. There's gunplay at the Harvard School of Law while a corpse rides a swan-boat in the Public Garden. Ranging from Benjamin Franklin to Asey Mayo, the Codfish Sherlock, the detectives in this anthology travel all over Boston to solve crimes. The authors collected here, including Edward D. Hoch, Donald E. Westlake, Phoebe Atwood Taylor, and George Harmon Coxe, illustrate that while Boston has changed since Colonial times, its residents' penchant for murder hasn't.
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