Books by Edward D. Hoch and Complete Book Reviews

Edward D. Hoch, Author Crippen & Landru Publishers $17 (232p) ISBN 978-1-885941-91-6
The Iron Angel and Other Tales of the Gypsy Sleuth, by MWA Grand Master Edward D. Hoch, collects 15 stories featuring Gypsy Michael Vlado. Published between 1985 and 2000, they reflect the dramatic political and social changes in Eastern Europe...
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Edward D. Hoch, Author Crippen & Landru Publishers $42 (232p) ISBN 978-1-885941-90-9
The Iron Angel and Other Tales of the Gypsy Sleuth, by MWA Grand Master Edward D. Hoch, collects 15 stories featuring Gypsy Michael Vlado. Published between 1985 and 2000, they reflect the dramatic political and social changes in Eastern Europe...
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Edward D. Hoch, Author Walker & Company $21.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8027-1240-0
This consistently entertaining collection of short stories selected from mystery magazines and anthologies opens propitiously with Edgar Award nominee Doug Allyn's ``Sleeper,'' the hard-hitting tale of a TV news camera operator probing the...
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Edward D. Hoch, Author Walker & Company $21.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8027-3238-5
This nicely balanced collection of top-notch crime stories is culled from magazines and anthologies published last year. Stylistically, the stories range from Jo Bannister's cutely ironic short-short, ``The Poisoned Chalice,'' to the darkly literate
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Edward D. Hoch. Crippen & Landru, $19 trade paper (238p) ISBN 978-1936363032
Hoch's third collection of impossible short mystery stories (after 2006's More Things Impossible) is another showcase of the author's ingenuity. Throughout the 15 stories, spanning Dr. Sam's career as smalltown doctor and amateur sleuth in New...
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Edward D. Hoch. Crippen & Landru, $45 (272p) ISBN 978-1-936363-21-6
Fans of classic mysteries interested in howdunit as well as whodunit will relish MWA Grand Master Hoch’s fourth collection of ingenious impossible crime stories (after 2014’s Nothing Is Impossible). The 15 tales are set between 1936 and 1940. Dr....
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Edward D. Hoch. Crippen & Landru, $22 trade paper (296p) ISBN 978-1-936363-48-3
The 16 ingenious stories in this memorable collection from MWA Grand Master Hoch (1930–2008) feature the colorful and enigmatic Simon Ark, who claims “to have traveled the earth for close to 2000 years in search of Satan.” Despite that supernatural...
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Edward D. Hoch. Crippen & Landru, $22 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-1-936363-64-3
The 18 short mysteries in this stellar collection from Hoch (1930–2008) feature two of his lesser-known sleuths, Alexander Swift, “a civilian investigator for George Washington during America’s Revolutionary War,” and consulting detective Gideon...
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