Sunday, March 16, 2025

The Chortling Man


 I have a story in the new issue of Black Cat Weekly, #185. "The Chortling Man" is a sequel to "The Accessories Club," which Otto Penzler put in his list of Distinguished Stories the year it came out. Both stories are about a retired cop who finds himself a member of a club of criminals who try to figure out how each one committed a crime... a sort of reverse of Agatha Christie's Tuesday Club Murders, or Asimov's Black Widowers.