The Collected Stories

In these nine stories from "the master of the American literary whodunit", dangerous impulses seize the most unlikely individuals, and everyday existence is fast eclipsed by the bizarre. Unforgettable characters probe baffling riddles: the enigma of a nameless toddler who walks out of the bushes one New England summer afternoon... the theft of a seventeenth-century painting from a lonely Texas convent... the reappearance of a missing Constable drawing just where it can cause the most trouble... and other mysteries, many starring the incomparable private investigator Kate Fansler. A Mystery Guild Selection.