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Author: Otto Penzler
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780618517473
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Presents a collection of mystery stories selected from magazines in the United States and Canada.
Author: Otto Penzler
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Published: 2009-11-05
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9781847248831
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Expect the unexpected and prepare to be entertained… No book published this year will deliver more thrills per page than this one. Here are twenty of the year's stand-out crime short stories, showcasing not only the very best of the genre, but also the very best American writing full stop. This outstanding collection is always certain to delight mystery aficionados as well as lovers of all great fiction.
Author: James Patterson
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2015-10-06
Total Pages: 437
ISBN-13: 0544638743
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Mega best-selling mystery and thriller novelist James Patterson edits a collection of the best mystery writing.
Author: Otto Penzler
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2014-04-22
Total Pages: 556
ISBN-13: 0544313437
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Twenty great whodunnits from the first decade of this series, edited by the award-winning editor and founder of the Mysterious Press. This anthology collects the top twenty stories from the first decade (1997–2006) of The Best American Mystery Stories, selected and introduced by Otto Penzler. Contributors include Russell Banks, Jeffrey Deaver, Louise Erdrich, Brendan DuBois, Dennis Lehane, Elmore Leonard, Lou Manfredo, Ed McBain, Joyce Carol Oates, Scott Turow, and many others.
Author: Harlan Coben
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 435
ISBN-13: 054755396X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The editors present a collection of the best mystery writing culled from a variety of sources.
Author: John Sandford
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2017-10-03
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 054494920X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The New York Times–bestselling author presents a thrilling anthology of devious crimes with stories by C. J. Box, Peter Straub, Joyce Carol Oates and more. “Some people might tell you that crime short stories, unlike the more precious kind, are a kind of fictional ghetto, full of cardboard characters and clichéd situations. Not true. These stories are remarkably free of bullshit—although there’s always a little, just to grease the wheels,” writes guest editor John Sandford in his introduction to this action-packed volume of mystery fiction. From an isolated Wyoming ranch to the Detroit boxing underworld, and from kidnapping and adultery in the Hollywood Hills to a serial killer loose in a nursing home, The Best American Mystery Stories 2017 hosts an entertaining abundance of crime, psychological suspense, and bad intentions. The Best American Mystery Stories 2017 includes entries by C.J. Box, Gerri Brightwell, Jeffery Deaver, Brendan DuBois, Trina Corey, Craig Johnson, Joyce Carol Oates, Peter Straub, and others.
Author: Otto Penzler
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2014-10-07
Total Pages: 397
ISBN-13: 0544034643
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A collection of top-selected mystery writing from the past year is culled from a variety of respected sources and offers insight into evolving genre trends.
Author: LeRoy Lad Panek
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2015-01-24
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 0786481382
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Edgar Allan Poe essentially invented the detective story in 1841 with Murders in the Rue Morgue. In the years that followed, however, detective fiction in America saw no significant progress as a literary genre. Much to the dismay of moral crusaders like Anthony Comstock, dime novels and other sensationalist publications satisfied the public's hunger for a yarn. Things changed as the century waned, and eventually the detective was reborn as a figure of American literature. In part these changes were due to a combination of social conditions, including the rise and decline of the police as an institution; the parallel development of private detectives; the birth of the crusading newspaper reporter; and the beginnings of forensic science. Influential, too, was the new role model offered by a wildly popular British import named Sherlock Holmes. Focusing on the late 19th century and early 20th, this volume covers the formative years of American detective fiction. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Author: Otto Penzler
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2003-08-19
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0375713018
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This year’s worth of the most powerful, the most startling, the smartest and most astute, in short, the best crime journalism. Scouring hundreds of publications, Otto Penzler and Thomas H. Cook have created a remarkable compilation containing the best examples of the most current and vibrant of our literary traditions: crime reporting. Included in this volume are Maximillian Potter’s “The Body Farm” from GQ, a portrait of Murray Marks, who collects dead bodies and strews them around two acres of the University of Tennessee campus to study their decomposition in order to help solve crime; Jay Kirk’s “My Undertaker, My Pimp,” from Harper’s, in which Mack Moore and his wife, Angel, switch from run-ning crooked funeral parlors to establishing a brothel; Skip Hollandsworth’s “The Day Treva Throneberry Disappeared” from Texas Monthly, about the sudden disappearence of a teenager and the strange place she turned up; Lawrence Wright’s “The Counterterrorist” from The New Yorker, the story of John O’Neill, the FBI agent who tracked Osama bin Laden for a decade—until he was killed when the World Trade Center collapsed. Intriguing, entertaining, and compelling reading, Best American Crime Writing has established itself as a much-anticipated annual.
Author: Ed McBain
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 1999-10-29
Total Pages: 486
ISBN-13: 9780395939154
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Presents a collection of mystery stories selected from magazines in the United States and Canada
