Doug Allyn
Author of Murder in Paradise
About the Author
Doug Allyn, 1942 - Doug Allyn was born in 1942 in Bay City, Michigan. He attended Alpena Community College from 1961 to 1962, as well as the University of Michigan from 1972 to 1974. He joined a rock band in 1975 called the Devil's Triangle where he was a musician, singer and songwriter. Allyn's show more work has appeared in "Once Upon a Crime," "Cat Crimes Through Time" and volumes three and four of "The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories." His tales of "Tallifer," the wandering minstrel, have appeared in "Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine" and "Murder Most Scottish." A "Tallifer" story entitled "The Dancing Bear," won the Edgar award for short fiction in 1995. Allyn has also written the "All Creatures Dark and Small" series which features a crime fighting veterinarian. show less
Series
Works by Doug Allyn
Saint Margaret's Kitten 1 copy
Franken Kat [short story] 1 copy
Final Rites 1 copy
Mótaun blues (モータウン・ブルース) 1 copy
Allyn Doug 1 copy
The Pig Party 1 copy
Candles In The Rain 1 copy
Associated Works
By Hook or By Crook and 30 More of the Best Crime and Mystery Stories of the Year (2010) — Contributor — 85 copies
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine Presents Fifty Years of Crime and Suspense (2006) — Contributor — 73 copies
The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories: First Annual Collection (2000) — Contributor — 59 copies
The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories: Second Annual Collection (2001) — Contributor — 48 copies
Between the Dark and the Daylight and 27 More of the Best Crime and Mystery Stories of the Year (2009) — Contributor — 42 copies
The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2023 (2023) — Contributor — 33 copies
A Date Which Will Live in Infamy: An Anthology of Pearl Harbor Stories That Might Have Been (2001) — Contributor — 15 copies
The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Third Annual Edition (1994) — Contributor — 10 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Allyn, Douglas
- Birthdate
- 1942
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Places of residence
- Bay City, Michigan, USA
- Education
- Indiana University
University of Michigan - Occupations
- book reviewer
- Organizations
- Flint Journal
- Short biography
- [from The Burning of Rachel Hayes]
Author of seven novels and more than eighty short stories, Doug Allyn's background includes Chinese language studies at Indiana University and extended duty in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. Later, he studied creative writing and criminal psychology at the University of Michigan while moonlighting as a songwriter/guitarist in the rock band Devil's Triangle. He currently reviews books for the Flint Journal while maintaining a full time writing schedule. His short stories have garnered both critical and commercial acclaim and have been awarded numerous prizes, including the Robert L. Fish Award for best first story, the Edgar Allan Poe Award, the American Mystery Award, the Derringer Award twice, and the Ellery Queen Readers Award six times. Doug counts among his career highlights drinking champagne with Mickey Spillane and waltzing with Mary Higgins Clark.
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Reviews
The Lawyer Lifeguard by James Patterson
I think this would have been better as a complete novel. Not bad. Not his best.
I only needed to read the second story in this book as I’ve already read the first and the third as Book Shots and reviewed them separately. I found “The Doctor’s Plot” enjoyable. It really did not feel like a short story to me. This is one of those times when Mr. Patterson gets it right and puts just the rights amount of detail into the story to make it work and not feel rushed.
David Westbrook has made some bad choices in his life and had some hard knocks but now he's starting over as a small town, farm vet. And kind of scrambling to get it together. And then a kid falls into a well and it all changes. I know… I know… this is lame. This book did not even sound interesting to me. At page 20, I was ready to put it down. At page 50, I was on the fence. 20 pages later I was so hooked that I was thinking about the characters and plot while doing other things. I can't even tell you why but it was one of the best things I've read this year.… (more)
Good short story but a little hard to follow all the characters.
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Statistics
- Works
- 35
- Also by
- 31
- Members
- 443
- Popularity
- #55,291
- Rating
- 3.7
- Reviews
- 11
- ISBNs
- 45
- Languages
- 2