Edward D. Hoch (1930-2008) wrote almost a thousand short stories, virtually all of them cleverly plotted fair-play mysteries. In the introduction to “Nothing Is Impossible,” Janet Hutchings, the editor of Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, points out that EQMM ran a Hoch contribution in every issue for 34 straight years. As Jacques Barzun and Wendell Hertig Taylor advised in their magisterial “Catalogue of Crime,” Hoch stories “should be turned to first in any issue of EQMM,” adding that their ingenious denouements never “hinge on a single trifling detail. The plots are lifelike and reasonably complex and the situations are inventive.” The stories are also perfect light entertainments.
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