My Mother, the Detective: The Complete "Mom" Short Stories

by James Yaffe

Book Overview

Dave, a police officer, has dinner with Mom in the Bronx every Friday evening. Between the chicken soup and the schnecken, Dave talks about his current cases. Mom's long experience with scheming butchers, nosey neighbors, and eccentric relatives leads her to logical solutions to all Dave's mysteries. Thirty years ago, Ellery Queen wrote that it was sure as death and 'tectives that a collection of Mom short stories would appear. Witty, wise, and filled...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1885941110
• ISBN13: 9781885941114
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Crippen & Landru Publishers
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.