The same story is also included in "Best American Mystery
Stories 2005" edited by Joyce Carol Oates, series editor Otto
Penzler. The Oates-Penzler compilation is interesting as it
tends toward the noir. This year, for instance, four stories
from Plots With Guns receive mention, one is printed. I am
proud to be the author of one the other three that at least
received Distiinguished mention. There have, I understand,
been complaints from cozy writers about Penzler's "bias" in
favor of noir. This does not mean that Penzler includes that
many traditional hardboiled. The slant is more literary and
"crime" as against puzzle mystery writing.
But there are those, and I am one of them, who believe that
this is not a matter of bias. The best contemporary crime
writing tends to be dark. I'd be interested in whether you
all agree with this considering the general subject matter of
this list. I am not so sure it is simply a matter of taste. I
think it is difficult to write something truly creative about
sipping tea in a B&B.
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