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Doug Allyn

Autor(a) de Murder in Paradise

35+ Works 440 Membros 11 Críticas

About the Author

Doug Allyn, 1942 - Doug Allyn was born in 1942 in Bay City, Michigan. He attended Alpena Community College from 1961 to 1962, as well as the University of Michigan from 1972 to 1974. He joined a rock band in 1975 called the Devil's Triangle where he was a musician, singer and songwriter. Allyn's mostrar mais work has appeared in "Once Upon a Crime," "Cat Crimes Through Time" and volumes three and four of "The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories." His tales of "Tallifer," the wandering minstrel, have appeared in "Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine" and "Murder Most Scottish." A "Tallifer" story entitled "The Dancing Bear," won the Edgar award for short fiction in 1995. Allyn has also written the "All Creatures Dark and Small" series which features a crime fighting veterinarian. mostrar menos

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Séries

Obras por Doug Allyn

Murder in Paradise (2018) 250 exemplares
The Lawyer Lifeguard (2017) 38 exemplares
Icewater Mansions (1995) 24 exemplares
Black Water (1996) 23 exemplares
The Burning of Rachel Hayes (2004) 19 exemplares
A Dance in Deep Water (1997) 10 exemplares
Motown Underground (1993) 7 exemplares
The Jukebox Kings (2017) 7 exemplares
Coeur de glace (2000) 6 exemplares
l'Instinct de la meute (2008) 5 exemplares
The Cheerio Killings (1989) 4 exemplares
Juke Box Cadillac (2010) 3 exemplares

Associated Works

The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries (2013) — Contribuidor — 290 exemplares
The Best American Mystery Stories 2003 (2003) — Contribuidor — 205 exemplares
The Best American Mystery Stories 2010 (2010) — Contribuidor — 154 exemplares
Once Upon a Crime (1998) — Contribuidor — 123 exemplares
The Best American Mystery Stories 1997 (1997) — Contribuidor — 117 exemplares
The Best American Mystery Stories 2015 (2015) — Contribuidor — 107 exemplares
Murder Most Scottish (1656) — Contribuidor — 93 exemplares
Murder Most Medieval: Noble Tales of Ignoble Demises (2000) — Contribuidor — 65 exemplares
Alternate Gettysburgs (2002) — Contribuidor — 64 exemplares
The Best American Mystery Stories 2017 (2017) — Contribuidor — 60 exemplares
Diagnosis Dead (1998) — Contribuidor — 54 exemplares
Deadly Anniversaries (2020) — Contribuidor — 54 exemplares
The Best Mystery Stories of the Year: 2022 (2022) — Contribuidor — 40 exemplares
Murder Most Celtic: Tall Tales of Irish Mayhem (2001) — Contribuidor — 37 exemplares
Cat Crimes Through Time (1999) — Contribuidor — 34 exemplares
Crème de la Crime (2000) — Contribuidor — 24 exemplares
Murder Most Confederate: Tales of Crimes Quite Uncivil (2000) — Contribuidor — 23 exemplares
Crash Dive (Anthology 9-in-1) (2003) — Contribuidor — 21 exemplares
The Interrogator and Other Criminally Good Fiction (2012) — Contribuidor — 19 exemplares
Jewish Noir II: Tales of Crime and Other Dark Deeds (2022) — Contribuidor — 18 exemplares
The Year's Best Mystery and Suspense Stories, 1990 (1990) — Contribuidor — 7 exemplares
Crime: A Fiction River Special Edition (2014) — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
Das Kätzchen der heiligen Margret (2001) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Nome legal
Allyn, Douglas
Data de nascimento
1942
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
USA
Locais de residência
Bay City, Michigan, USA
Educação
Indiana University
University of Michigan
Ocupações
book reviewer
Organizações
Flint Journal

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[from The Burning of Rachel Hayes]
Author of seven novels and more than eighty short stories, Doug Allyn's background includes Chinese language studies at Indiana University and extended duty in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. Later, he studied creative writing and criminal psychology at the University of Michigan while moonlighting as a songwriter/guitarist in the rock band Devil's Triangle. He currently reviews books for the Flint Journal while maintaining a full time writing schedule. His short stories have garnered both critical and commercial acclaim and have been awarded numerous prizes, including the Robert L. Fish Award for best first story, the Edgar Allan Poe Award, the American Mystery Award, the Derringer Award twice, and the Ellery Queen Readers Award six times. Doug counts among his career highlights drinking champagne with Mickey Spillane and waltzing with Mary Higgins Clark.

Membros

Críticas

I think this would have been better as a complete novel. Not bad. Not his best.
 
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purple_pisces22 | 2 outras críticas | Mar 14, 2021 |
I only needed to read the second story in this book as I’ve already read the first and the third as Book Shots and reviewed them separately. I found “The Doctor’s Plot” enjoyable. It really did not feel like a short story to me. This is one of those times when Mr. Patterson gets it right and puts just the rights amount of detail into the story to make it work and not feel rushed.
 
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purple_pisces22 | 3 outras críticas | Mar 14, 2021 |
David Westbrook has made some bad choices in his life and had some hard knocks but now he's starting over as a small town, farm vet. And kind of scrambling to get it together. And then a kid falls into a well and it all changes. I know… I know… this is lame. This book did not even sound interesting to me. At page 20, I was ready to put it down. At page 50, I was on the fence. 20 pages later I was so hooked that I was thinking about the characters and plot while doing other things. I can't even tell you why but it was one of the best things I've read this year.… (mais)
 
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susandennis | 1 outra crítica | Jun 5, 2020 |
Good short story but a little hard to follow all the characters.
 
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sandra.pinkerton83 | 2 outras críticas | Apr 16, 2019 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
35
Also by
31
Membros
440
Popularidade
#55,641
Avaliação
½ 3.7
Críticas
11
ISBN
45
Línguas
2

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