Joan Richter

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Joan Richter is the author of THE GAMBLING MASTER OF SHANGHAI and OTHER TALES OF SUSPENSE. An award-winning writer, her fiction has appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and themed anthologies. Raised and educated in New York City, where she received a BA from Hunter College, she set out to see the world. She lived in East Africa for two years, when her husband was deputy director of the Peace Corps program in Kenya. Along with their two small sons, they visited volunteers in remote villages, and traveled extensively in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. She consulted for Peace Corps Washington on the role of staff wives overseas.

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The Barry Award is a crime literary prize awarded annually since 1997 by the editors of Deadly Pleasures, an American quarterly publication for crime fiction readers. From 2007 to 2009 the award was jointly presented with the publication Mystery News. The prize is named after Barry Gardner, an American critic.

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Contributions in order of title

Only So Much to Reveal — in Ellery Queen's Headliners
The Last Rendezvous — in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
The Waste Pile at Apple Bow — in Ellery Queen's Faces of Mystery