Graveyard Plots: The Best Short Stories of Bill Pronzini

By Bill Pronzini

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312344570
• ISBN13: 9780312344573
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: St. Martins Press
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The "Plots" Thicken

Author Bill Pronzini, in addition to being one of the most prolific of present day novelists, has also produced a vast quantity of short stories in the western, horror and mystery genres. Published in 1985, "Graveyard Plots" is a selection of 23 stories chosen (as the author states in his premise) from the over 150! works of short crime fiction he had produced up until then. The best of these include "Cain's Mark," "Strangers in the Fog," "Rebound" and "Smuggler's Island." There are also three "Nameless" Detective shorts, the best of which is the clever "Skeleton Rattle Your Mouldy Leg."Many of the stories are quite short (as few as five pages), and the book clocks in at a mere 255 pages of text. Nevertheless, it is a very good collection by an author who personifies the term "professional writer."