Night Call and Other Stories Carolyn Wheat Salim Ajami and Crisis at

Salim Ajami and Crisis at Central High

World Mystery Convention with the Anthony for Best Short Story

Holding decided to write a series of short stories about fictional sleuths King Danforth and Martin Leroy

This enlarged edition includes - for the first time- the newly discovered short-short

which won the Mystery Writers of America Edgar for Best Short Story

Night Call and Other Stories Carolyn Wheat Salim Ajami and Crisis atCharlotte Armstrong (1905 1969) introduced suspense into the commonplace, the everyday, by writing short stories and novels in which one simple action sets a series of events spiraling into motion, pulling readers along, breathless with anxiety. By creating characters that could be one's next door neighbors and by relocating suspense, in many cases, from its Gothic ancestral settings, to locales she knew best, Armstrong created what the mystery writer