For the past thirteen years, Angela Potts and her former student Charles (Chunky) Jones have bickered, shared rides, and solved mysteries in their small Mayberrylike town...and in the pages of Womans World magazine. They are definitely an odd couple. She is high-strung and smart and bossy and he is a bit lazy and, shall we say, solution-challenged. In response to countless requests from Angela followers, author John M. Floyd has finally put together a collection of fifty stories featuring his female sleuth, in a solve-it-yourself format with the mysteries up front and the solutions in the back. For anyone who enjoys lighthearted mysteries, here are adventures galore. Fifty trips into a world of sweet tea and magnolia blossoms, where everything moves slowly except gossip...and the devious mind of Angela Potts. I call them crime candy. Floyds capers are concise, snappy, and full of surprises. And just like good candy and chips, you cannot just eat, er, read just one. --J.C. Patterson, The Clarion Ledger (Jackson, MS) If John Floyd were dead he would be known as one of the preeminent short story writers of the 21st century. Fortunately for us, he is alive and his mind is still full of stories. --Nevada Barr, best-selling Mississippi novelist and author of the Anna Pigeon series In the tradition of O. Henry, (Floyd) takes the reader down the twisty path of crime...to where the reward is far better than a pot of gold. --Carolyn Haines, author of the Sarah Booth Delaney series The short fiction of John M. Floyd has appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, The Strand Magazine, Mississippi Noir, the print edition of The Saturday Evening Post, and many other publications. Three of his stories--"Molly's Plan" from The Strand, "Gun Work" from the anthology Coast to Coast: Private Eyes, and "Rhonda and Clyde" from Black Cat Mystery Magazine--were selected for inclusion in the 2015, 2018, and 2020 editions of The Best American Mystery Stories, and another was recently optioned for film. A former Air Force captain and IBM systems engineer, John is also an Edgar nominee, a four-time Derringer Award winner, a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee, and the 2018 recipient of the Short Mystery Fiction Society's lifetime achievement award.