Every Day a Little Death

<p><em>Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Stephen Sondheim</em>? Seriously? What in the world do Sondheim and crime fiction have in common?</p><p></p><p>Well nothing...unless you remember that <em>Sweeney Todd</em> is the story of a murderous barber and <em>Assassins</em> is the story of multiple killers and would-be killers and <em>Into the Woods</em> tells the story of a wolf who eats grandmothers and <em>The Last of Sheila--</em>not a musical comedy for the stage but a devious whodunnit Sondheim co-wrote with Anthony Perkins for the screen--won the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Allan Poe Award for the best mystery film of 1973.</p><p></p><p>In <em>Every Day a Little Death</em> twenty authors--some from the world of crime fiction some from the world of the theater--use Sondheim's lyrics as the inspiration for twenty tales of malfeasance misdemeanor...and murder.</p><p></p><p>Josh Pachter is a writer editor and translator. His work has been a finalist for the Edgar Anthony Agatha Thriller Macavity Lefty and Derringer awards. In 2020 he was the recipient of the Short Mystery Fiction Society's Golden Derringer for Lifetime Achievement.</p>