Suitable for Hanging: Selected Stories

Margaret Maron. Crippen & Landru Publishers, $19 (208pp) ISBN 978-1-932009-11-8

Fans of Crippen & Landru's ""Lost Classics"" series will welcome Anthony Berkeley's The Avenging Chance and Other Mysteries from Roger Sheringham's Casebook, edited by Tony Medawar and Arthur Robinson. Berkeley (1893-1971), the founder of London's Detection Club, was a master of the fair-play puzzle tales, such as ""The Avenging Chance,"" collected here. (Apr.)

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