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Author : James Patterson,Otto Penzler
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Detective and mystery stories, American
ISBN : 9780544638747
Mega best-selling mystery and thriller novelist James Patterson edits a collection of the best mystery writing.
Author : John Sandford
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780544949201
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 : Mariner Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Crime
ISBN : 0618517472
Presents a collection of mystery stories selected from magazines in the United States and Canada.
Author : Louise Penny,Otto Penzler
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Detective and mystery stories, American
ISBN : 9780544949096
An anthology of the best mystery short stories published in 2017 selected by best-selling author Louise Penny.
Author : Elizabeth George
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780544527973
The Anthony Award–winning author presents a “highly readable” anthology featuring mysteries by Stephen King, Megan Abbott, Elmore Leonard and more (Publishers Weekly). “What you’ll find in this volume are stories that demonstrate a mastery of plotting; stories that compel you to keep turning the pages because of plot and because of setting; stories that wield suspense like a sword; stories of people getting their comeuppance; stories that utilize superb point of view; stories that plumb one particular and unfortunate attribute of a character,” promises guest editor Elizabeth George in her introduction. The Best American Mystery Stories 2016 is a feast of both literary crime and hard-boiled detection, featuring a seemingly innocent murderer, a drug dealer in love, a drunken prank gone terribly wrong, and plenty of other surprising twists and turns. The Best American Mystery Stories 2016 includes entries by Steve Almond, Megan Abbott, Matt Bell, Lydia Fitzpatrick, Tom Franklin, Stephen King, Elmore Leonard, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, and others. “There isn’t enough Xanax in anyone’s medicine cabinet to calm the jitters these 20 skillful stories will unleash on a worried world.” —Kirkus Reviews
Author : C. J. Box,Otto Penzler
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781328636102
A collection of the year's best mystery short fiction selected by New York Times best-selling and Edgar Award-winning author C. J. Box. C. J. Box, #1 New York Times best-selling author of the hugely popular Joe Pickett series, selects the best short mystery and crime fiction of the year in this annual "treat for crime-fiction fans" (Library Journal).
Author : Tony Hillerman,Otto Penzler
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0618012710
In this essential distillation of American suspense, 100 years worth of peerless tales are collected into a volume where giants of the genre abound: Raymond Chandler, Lawrence Block, Sue Grafton, Elmore Leonard, and Sara Paretsky.
Author : Otto Penzler
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 629 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780544302228
A treasury of crime, mystery and murder tales from America's 19th century includes Edgar Allan Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" as well as selections by such genre masters as Jack London, Washington Irving and Mark Twain. 15,000 first printing.
Author : Otto Penzler,James Ellroy
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 755 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780547577449
A treasure trove of a hundred years' worth of the finest noir writing selected by James Ellroy
Author : Lee Child
Publisher : Corvus
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : 1848875738
Here are 20 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.
Author : Otto Penzler
Publisher : Corvus
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-28
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : 0857898922
The purest kind of detective story involves a crime solved by observation and deduction, rather than luck, coincidence or confession. The supreme form of detection involves the explanation of an impossible crime, whether the sort of vanishing act that would make Houdini proud, a murder that leaves no visible trace, or the most unlikely villain imaginable. Virtually all of the great writers of detective fiction have produced masterpieces in this genre, including Agatha Christie, Edgar Allan Poe, Dorothy L. Sayers, Arthur Conan Doyle, Raymond Chandler, G.K. Chesterton, John Dickson Carr, Dashiell Hammett, Ngaio Marsh and Stephen King. In this definitive collection, Otto Penzler selects a multifarious mix from across the entire history of the locked room story, which should form the cornerstone of any crime reader's library.
Author : John Connolly,Declan Burke
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781451696585
The world’s most beloved mystery writers celebrate their favorite mystery novels in this gorgeously wrought collection, featuring essays by Michael Connelly, Kathy Reichs, Ian Rankin, and more. In the most ambitious anthology of its kind, the world’s leading mystery writers come together to champion the greatest mystery novels ever written. In a series of personal essays that reveal as much about the authors and their own work as they do about the books that they love, over a hundred authors from twenty countries have created a guide that will be indispensable for generations of readers and writers. From Agatha Christie to Lee Child, from Edgar Allan Poe to P. D. James, from Sherlock Holmes to Hannibal Lecter and Philip Marlowe to Lord Peter Wimsey, Books to Die For brings together the best of the mystery world for a feast of reading pleasure, a treasure trove for those new to the genre and for those who believe that there is nothing new left to discover. This is the one essential book for every reader who has ever finished a mystery novel and thought…I want more!
Author : Greil Marcus
Publisher : Plume Books
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015009434005
Author : Robert Kolker
Publisher : Harper Perennial
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0063012952
New York Times Bestseller Soon to be a Netflix film. The bestselling account of the lives of five young women whose fates converged in the perplexing case of the Long Island Serial Killer. Now updated, with a new afterword by the author. "Rich, tragic...monumental...true-crime reporting at its best."--Washington Post One late spring evening in 2010, Shannan Gilbert--after running through the oceanfront community of Oak Beach screaming for her life--went missing. No one who had heard of her disappearance thought much about what had happened to the twenty-four-year-old: she was a Craigslist escort who had been fleeing a scene--of what, no one could be sure. The Suffolk County police, too, seemed to have paid little attention--until seven months later, when an unexpected discovery in a bramble alongside a nearby highway turned up four bodies, all evenly spaced, all wrapped in burlap. But none of them Shannan's. There was Maureen Brainard-Barnes, last seen at Penn Station in Manhattan three years earlier, and Melissa Barthelemy, last seen in the Bronx in 2009. There was Megan Waterman, last seen leaving a hotel in Hauppauge, Long Island, just a month after Shannon's disappearance in 2010, and Amber Lynn Costello, last seen leaving a house in West Babylon a few months later that same year. Like Shannan, all four women were petite, in their twenties, and had come from out of town to work as escorts, and they all had advertised on Craigslist and its competitor, Backpage. Lost Girls is a portrait of unsolved murders in an idyllic part of America, of the underside of the Internet, and of the secrets we keep without admitting to ourselves that we keep them. Long considered "one of the best true-crime books of all time" (Time), this edition is now updated, with an afterword about developments in the case, including the shocking fate of Mari Gilbert, Shannan's mother, for whom this case became the crusade of a lifetime.
Author : Otto Penzler
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780544034648
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.