Spooks, Spies, and Private Eyes

In addition to editing Spooks, Spies, and Private Eyes, which received a citation for "Outstanding Contribution to Publishing" from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association, Paula L. Woods is the coauthor of I, Too, Sing America; The African American Book of Days and coeditor of I Hear a Symphony: African Americans Celebrate Love, which won the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Multicultural Literature and the Black Caucus of the American Library Association's Fiction Honors. Her writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, New York Newsday, the San Francisco Chronicle, and The Washington Post, among other newspapers. Cofounder of a general consulting firm, Woods/Liddell Group, and a book packaging and marketing firm, Livre Noir, she lives in Los Angeles, California.brbrbriFrom the Trade Paperback edition./i>Spooks, Spies, and Private Eyes is "a fascinating guide to black mystery fiction and its subgenres from early in the century to the present" (Emerge magazine). Within these pages Paula L. Woods has gathered an outstanding array of new, long-lost, or never-before-published fiction, ranging from Pauline E. Hopkins's classic locked-room mystery story "Talma Gordon," originally published by Colored American Magazine in 1900, to a new piece of short fiction by bestselling author Walter Mosley.brbrFrom the earliest mystery story written by an African American to fiction by modern mainstream authors such as BarbaraNeely, Eleanor Taylor Bland, and Aya de Leon, the pieces in this anthology comprise "a landmark collection no library of crime fiction should be without" (Kirkus Reviews).brbrbriFrom the Trade Paperback edition./i"Open this rich collection to any story and discover a world that crackles with mystery, wit, atmosphere, murder, and intelligence."brbr-- Tina McElroy AnsabrbrbriFrom the Trade Paperback edition./i