Creme De LA Crime
Retired British intelligence agent Jeffery Rand travels to Madagascar to investigate a murder connected to a smuggling case. Following a trade in rare Madagascan radiated tortoises and a scheme of puns and double-crosses, Rand unravels the mechanism behind the crime.
Work Information
A single bag of coconuts leads a smuggling case on a distant island toward an unexpected solution.
“One Bag of Coconuts” is a short mystery in Edward D. Hoch’s Jeffery Rand series. First published in the November 1997 issue of Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, it was later collected in Janet Hutchings’s Crème de la Crime. It turns an unfamiliar setting and a smuggling case into a sharply constructed puzzle.
Review Summaries
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The story is praised for a clever, deliberately coy construction, with puns and double-crosses involving rare Madagascan radiated tortoises as its chief pleasures.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Carroll & Graf Pub
- Published
- 2000-04-01
- Pages
- 406 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 16.51 x 3.81 x 24.13 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780786707386
- ISBN-10
- 0786707380
- Price
- 8226 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Mystery & Thrillers/Mystery/Anthologies
The world's top mystery writers fill this collection of stories comprised of award winning short fiction by Anne Perry, Lawrence Block, Peter Lovesey, and other notable authors and featuring crimes of various moods and high anxiety.
Related Literary Awards
- The Anthony Awards Edition 13 (1998) ・short story prize