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Oh, it was one colossal whale of a shock, killing a murderer and becoming a heroine and finding her husband was a cobbler in the night just like an elf in a fairy tale-but she didn't lose the baby, who went full term and went to America and lived to be ninety-my own mother, and I believe every word!
And what, you may well ask, was the smell she smelled just as the malignant hand closed on her wrist?
Why starch, a smell she knew well from the laundry, the starched white shirt of the big-eared hotel waiter-a monster she sent where he deserved to go!
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“The Long Walk”-initially published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, June 1995; also appeared on FatBrain.com, 1999
“Success Without College”-initially published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, December 1998; also appeared on FatBrain.com, 1999
“Dead Money”-initially published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, September/October 1996; also appeared on FatBrain.com as “Soft Haze,” 1999
“His Master's Hand”-initially appeared on FatBrain.com, 1999
“Gertrude Stein Solves a Mystery”-originally appeared on FatBrain.com, 1999
“The Furnace Man”-initially published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, May 1997; also appeared on FatBrain.com, 1999
“Chocolate Milkshake”-originally appeared on FatBrain.com, 1999
“Juggernaut”-initially published in Women Before the Bench anthology, ed. Carolyn Wheat, Berkley 2001
“Sandstorm”-originally appeared on FatBrain.com, 1999
“Lemons”-initially published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, July 1996; also appeared on FatBrain.com, 1999
“A Grandmother's Tale”-originally appeared on FatBrain.com
Perri O 'Shaughnessy