I have to admit she’s not a protagonist I particularly warmed to, as her blunt and tactless approach, is somewhat cruel, rather than good intentioned. Maude is confident she can solve the case. She is determined to excel on her next assignment, that of writing an anniversary piece on the unsolved disappearance of Elizabeth Rose, the famous actress. Maude Seton is as keen as mustard for her reporting job, though consequently no one really likes her. Yet the sale does go through, but we and Anabel soon get the idea that something is not right, when a policeman looms on the horizon… This is a story which injects strong vibes of the disbelief that the heroine of Ethel Lina White’s The Wheel Spins encounters, but because it is in a short story context, the tension doesn’t get time to be racked up. Her mother is not keen on the idea and doubts her $500 will cover the cost. 21-year-old Anabel had been planning on buying a stole, but instead decides to look up the address which has advertised the sale of a new mink coat. This never happened but ‘Mink Coat, Very Cheap,’ is one of the short stories that she wrote around this concept. Whilst Armstrong is better known for her suspense novels, she actually started out in advertising before moving onto reporting, playwrighting and then writing whodunnits.Īrmstrong and her husband wanted to create a TV series where each episode started from a newspaper advert be it a help wanted ad or an advert selling something. The other two titles are published here for the first time. It was edited by Rick Cypert and Kirby McCauley and all but two of the titles featured were published in Ellery Queen Magazine in the 1960s. Having enjoyed some of Armstrong’s novels, I have had my eye on this collection for a while.
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