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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Thorndike JAN-MARCH 03
Mat Coward Do the World a Favour and Other Stories Pbk published January 2003 by Thorndike at £0.00 ISBN: 0786243139
Artwork by: Art work: Deirare Wait
See Review by Martin Edwards - author of the highly acclaimed Harry Devlin Mysteries

"... light and clever." Kirkus Reviews on Up and Down
"Mat Coward writes with a droll wit...In and Out is a light-hearted mystery that I can recommend to anyone, whether they prefer cozy or hard-boiled." Deadly Pleasures

Mat Coward's brand of tough crime fiction with realistically-portrayed characters you might bump into just around a street comer has won him accolades in England for years. Now, with Five Star's publication of his critically acclaimed and popular novels Up and Down and In and Out, he is proving himself to be equally well-received on this side of the Atlantic Ocean. Five Star is pleased to present, for the first time, fourteen of Mat's best short stories, from his CWA Dagger and Edgar-nominated fiction to two of his most recent stories that are appearing in print for the first time. Take a walk on the wrong side of the tracks of London in these short crime and mystery tales by one of the genre'srapidly rising stars.

Stories include:
History Repeats Itself, and It Doesn't Even Say Pardon.
The CWA Dagger-shortlisted story about a cop who used to be a crook-and will do whatever it takes to keep hold of his new life.
No Night By Myself.
Where a petty crook, known to his associates as Madness, has never in his life spent Christmas alone-until this year. Then, on his lonely way home from the pub, he sees a nice-looldng house, so he trots up to the front door and walks right in.
The Shortest Distance.
Leslie Queen- hired by a millionaire property developer to rein in his estranged son-is a thoroughly Chandleresque private eye. Except that his mean streets are in London, and he's 73 years old.
Do the World a Favour. Treating taxi drivers like dirt can be dangerous, especially if you're an unpleasant, right-wing old bat with a big mouth and no heart. And especially if your driver has reached a point in life where satisfactíon means more to him than consequences. Not a Minute in the Day.
Altemative history meets historical-mystery, in a universe where Britain's General Strike of 1926 results in victory for the unions-and a murder investigation for a militant cop.
Famous for One Thing.
Getting mugged when he was seventeen was the best thing that ever happened to Peter-that single incident gave him a successful career as a writer. At least, that's how Peter's life looks from the outside. Twenty years later, when one of his attackers makes contact, Peter sees things a little differently.
Nowhere to be Found.
When his oldest pal gets out of Jerry's car on a country road one dark night, and is never seen again, Jerry feels sort of responsible. There was nothing he could have done, but even so-it was his car that Alan went missing from. But will retracing the fateful journey lead him to Alan, dead or alive?

This and seven other stories make up this superb collection by rising star, Mat Coward.

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