title: Tar Heel Dead: Tales of Mystery and Mayhem from North Carolina
author:  Sarah R. Shaber 
description: This mystery anthology contains eighteen short stories set in or written by authors from North Carolina. Includes many well-known writers, such as O. Henry, Lilian Jackson Braun, Orson Scott Card, Margaret Maron, Michael Malone, and BarbaraNeely.
zlib_text: > Tar Heel Dead
  
  >  **Tar Heel Dead**
  
  >  _Tales of_ Mystery and Mayhem _from_ North Carolina
  
  >  _Edited by_ Sarah R. Shaber
  
  >  _Foreword by_ Margaret Maron
  
  > The University of North Carolina Press
  
  > Chapel Hill and London
  
    
  
  > © 2005 Sarah R. Shaber  
  > All rights reserved  
  > Manufactured in the United States of America  
  > Designed by Richard Hendel  
  > Set in Arnhem and Big Black types  
  > by Tseng Information Systems, Inc.  
  > The paper in this book meets the guidelines  
  > for permanence and durability of the Committee  
  > on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of  
  > the Council on Library Resources.  
  > Frontispiece by Debora Greger  
  > Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  
  > Tar Heel dead : tales of mystery and mayhem from  
  > North Carolina / edited by Sarah R. Shaber ; foreword  
  > by Margaret Maron.  
  >  p. cm.  
  > ISBN 0-8078-5604-5 (pbk. : alk. paper)  
  > 1\. Detective and mystery stories, American—North Carolina. 2. North
  > Carolina—Fiction. I. 