From Crime to Crime

by Dennis Palumbo

Overview

From Crime to Crime introduces The Smart Guys Marching Society, a group of (real-life) “desperate husbands” who meet on Sundays to discuss politics, compare lives and eat deli. What they invariably wind up doing is solving crimes.

The book also features several stand-alone stories with such amateur sleuths as
• a brilliant female psychologist whose session with a patient threatens to turn deadly and
• a penniless patent clerk named Albert Einstein, who gets caught up in the search for a turn-of-the-century serial killer.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940015135381
Publisher:	Tallfellow Press
Publication date:	05/25/2008
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	304
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Formerly a well-regarded screenwriter (My Favorite Year; Welcome Back, Kotter, etc.), Dennis Palumbo is now a psychotherapist in private practice. His work counseling Hollywood’s creative elite has been profiled in Premiere magazine, Variety, GQ, and on CNN. A frequent contributor to both the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, he also provides commentary for NPR’s All Things Considered, and has been a guest on the shows of Laura Ingraham, Toni Grant, PBS’ Patt Morrison and others. Author of the noted nonfiction book, Writing From the Inside Out, his mystery stories have appeared in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, The Strand Magazine and elsewhere. His novel, City Wars, a futuristic thriller, is currently in development as a motion picture. His newest mystery books are two novels. The first is Mirror Image and the second is Fever Dream.

Editorial Reviews

Palumbo's contemporary characters dig into these classic, brain-teasing whodunnits with humor and wit. It's a feast for crime-story lovers of all stripes.

Blurb - Bobby Moresco

This sparkling assemblage features an assortment of fascinating and quirky characters, including a couple of amateur sleuths, a female psychologist who hasn't thought through the perils of her occupation, and even a young clerk named Albert Einstein who solves a series of brutal murders while simultaneously striking a blow against anti-Semitism. But it's the idiosyncratic members of the Smart Guys Marching Society that distinguish this collection. In updating the legendary Isaac Asimov's crime s

Blurb - Dick Lochte