Murder Most Celtic: Tall Tales of Irish Mayhem

. Cumberland House Publishing, $14.95 (320pp) ISBN 978-1-58182-161-1

The new addition to the Murder Most series is edited by Martin H. Greenberg, co-editor of the American Ghosts series and innumerable other anthologies. Murder Most Celtic: Tall Tales of Irish Mayhem features 16 stories of murder in the Emerald Isles. P.M. Carlson's story concerns Irish immigrants and actors in 19th-century New York; Robert J. Randisi tells of erotic dancing and a St. Patrick's Day murder, New Orleans-style.

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