Carolyn Wheat book: Tales Out of School Patricia McElroy Carlson “Satan himself would be proud

“Satan himself would be proud of his ingenuity

Lauded by Agatha Christie as the Master of Alibis and praised by the contemporary press for his carefully constructed detective mysteries

Art Taylor stands out for his wit

marginalized by the hyper-masculinity of the age

The Case of the Flying Graveyard

Carolyn Wheat book: Tales Out of School Patricia McElroy Carlson “Satan himself would be proudCarolyn Wheat book Seventeen years ago, Carolyn Wheat burst on the mystery scene with her Edgar nominated first novel about Cass Jameson, one of the first female lawyers in a crime series. Since then Wheat has written five more novels and some of the finest recent short stories in the genre. Throughout Wheat's work is sympathy for the underdog and the helpless. The title story in Tales Out of School, her first short story collection, explores how an