Cynthia Manson
Autor de Mystery Cats: Feline Felonies
Sobre El Autor
Series
Obras de Cynthia Manson
Mystery for Christmas and Other Stories: From Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (1990) — Editor — 72 copias
Murder by the Book: Literary Mysteries from Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (1995) — Editor — 67 copias
Women of Mystery II: Stories From Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine (1994) — Editor — 52 copias
Thou Shalt Not Kill: Father Brown, Father Dowling and Other Ecclesiastical Sleuths (1865) — Editor — 46 copias
Aliens and Ufos: Extraterrestrial Tales from Asimov's Science Fiction and Analog Science Fiction and Fact (1993) — Editor — 28 copias
Christmas Crimes: Stories from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and Alfred Hitchcock Mystery M (1996) — Editor — 28 copias
Tales of Obsession: Mystery Stories of Fatal Attractions and Deadly Desires (1994) — Editor — 16 copias
Win, Lose, or Die: Mystery Stories of Deadly Games and Murderous Gambles (1996) — Editor — 16 copias
Orbit: The Best of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (Graphic Science Fiction, No 1) (1990) — Editor — 14 copias
Grifters and Swindlers: Stories from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine (1993) 14 copias
Murder Most Medical: Stories from Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (1995) 7 copias
High Adventure: Tales of Exploration, Escape and Intrigue — Editor — 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
Tales from Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Short Stories for Young Adults (1986) — Contribuidor — 40 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Manson, Cynthia
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 20th century
- Género
- female
- Ocupaciones
- editor
marketing director - Organizaciones
- Davis Publications
- Biografía breve
- Cynthia Manson is Director of Marketing at Davis Publications. [from Women of Mystery (1992)][from Goodreads website]
Cynthia Manson is a literary agent, formerly Director of Marketing at Davis Publications, publishers of Ellery Queen and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazines. She has also edited several anthologies.
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 47
- También por
- 1
- Miembros
- 1,434
- Popularidad
- #17,942
- Valoración
- 3.3
- Reseñas
- 17
- ISBNs
- 77
- Idiomas
- 3
I found the stories to be, on the whole, uninteresting and of ordinary to mediocre quality. While any such collection is bound to be mixed in nature, in Women of Mystery #1 none of the stories stood out to me in quality -- this despite the inclusion of various respectable names in crime fiction (Rendell, Fraser, Clark, Paretsky).
One of those that I ranked the highest (3 stars) was "A Little More Research" (by Joan Hess), a clever one whose text consists of the attempts at writing by a prospective author who is constantly interrupted... and whose resultant crime is documented in her prose. Another one I'd ranked at this level was a contribution from Mary Higgins Clark from 1958, a suspense story in which a stewardess helps smuggle a young political dissident out of a country aboard the airline on which she serves.
Below are the stories included, with my rankings (on a scale of zero to 5 *s).
"Stowaway" (by Mary Higgins Clark): 3*
"Constitution Street" (by Janet Stockey) 1*
"A Pair of Yellow Lilies" (by Ruth Rendell) 1*
"Discards" (by Faye Kellerman) 0*
"The Girl Who Wanted to See Venice" (by Antonia Fraser) 2.5*
"Chain of Terror" (by Patricia McGerr) 3*
"Tania's No Where" (by Amanda Cross) 0*
"Old Friends" (by Salisbury Davis) 1*
"A Case for Clara Cates" (by Carolyn Jensen Watts) 1*
"Guilt Feelings" (by Celia Fremlin) 2.5*
"A Little More Research" (by Joan Hess) 3*
"The Upstairs Flat" (by Elizabeth A. Dalton) 2*
"The Takamoku Joseki" (by Sara Paretsky) 1.5*
"Digby's First Case" (by Anne Perry) 1.5*
"Night Vision" (by BK Stevens) 1.5*… (más)