Vital Signs

by Marcia Talley

Overview

"Vital Signs" [is] a bittersweet story that reminds us that a crime's legacy does not necessarily end when the crime is solved," says Laura Lippman in her Foreword to CHESAPEAKE CRIMES I, the collection in which this story originally appeared. "I was inspired by a true story," Talley told a gathering of fans at a bookstore one evening. "There really was an "Aunt Lucy," although she wasn't a murder victim-at least not as far as I know!"

Product Details

BN ID:	2940012361264
Publisher:	Marcia Talley
Publication date:	04/15/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	NOOK Book
File size:	11 KB

About the Author

Marcia Talley is the author of ALL THINGS UNDYING and eight previous mystery novels featuring survivor and sleuth, Hannah Ives. Hannah's tenth adventure, A QUIET GRAVE, will be published in the summer of 2011 by Severn House.

Marcia Talley's Agatha and Anthony award-winning short stories have appeared in more than a dozen collections, including anthologies edited by New York Times best-selling authors Lawrence Block, Elizabeth George, Laura Lippman, and Anne Perry. They have been selected for inclusion in "The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories" and "The Deadly Bride and 21 of the Year's Finest Crime and Mystery Stories," edited by Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg.

"My mother was an avid mystery fan, and a charter subscriber to Ellery Queen's Mystery magazine, so mysteries were always around the house," Marcia told a Philadelphia newspaper. "I was also a great fan of that old television show, 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents' and am grateful that although it appeared on TV late on a Sunday night (a school night--gasp!) I was allowed to stay up to watch it . . . I think my fondness for quirky endings can be traced back directly to Mr. Hitchcock."

Marcia divides her time between Annapolis, Maryland and living aboard an antique sailboat in the Bahamas with a husband who loves to sail and a cat who doesn't.