The 2nd Golden Age of Mystery and Crime MEGAPACK ™: Ruth Chessman

✍ Scribed by Chessman, Ruth

• Book ID: 109326327
• Publisher: Wildside
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 90 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

I first encountered Ruth Chessman�s work when browsing back issues of Manhunt magazine�and I was immediately intrigued Manhunt was a noir/hardboiled digest-sized mystery magazine, and female bylines were uncommon. A quick check showed that she also published stories in Ellery Queen�s Mystery Magazine as well as a 1965 middle-grade novel called Bound for Freedom, which was adapted as a movie. She must have instilled her love of crime writing in her family, since her daughter turns out to be none other than mystery writer Jane K. Cleland�who was kind enough to grant us permission to reprint her late mother�s work. (Jane also supplied us with copies of hard-to-find stories.) Ruth Chessman was a very good, if far too infrequent writer. This collection assembles most of her published short fiction.