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Otto Penzler
and Michael Connelly’s colourful and ironic ‘Cielo Azul’ shows how a nameless woman left dead on a Los Angeles hillside can be the most lethal prey of all. In other…
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A magnificently mysterious melange featuring the best crime and mystery fiction tales of the year. Edited by Anthony Horowitz.
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C. Daly King
The discovery of a corpse turns a cross-country train journey into a closed-circle hunt for a killer.
Phoebe Atwood Taylor
Asey Mayo, the Sherlock of Cape Cod, investigates the murder of a local innkeeper.
Anthony Horowitz selects and introduces the best mystery stories from the past year, under the auspices of the world's oldest mystery fiction specialty bookshop.
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Fifteen puzzling tales from the masters of the mystery genre
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Twelve festive crime stories set in New York City's beloved mystery bookstore
International bestseller Amor Towles, critically acclaimed author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility, together with award-winning editor and Mysterious Press founder, Otto Penzler, has selected the creme…
Gaston Leroux
The world-famous locked-room mystery from a master of detective fiction
A frightful act of malice committed in Paris: the dastardly attempted assassination of the daughter of a famed scientist who…
Sara Paretsky selects the twenty best mystery short stories of the year, including tales by Michael Connelly, Jo Nesbo, Joyce Carol Oates, Colson Whitehead, and more!
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Otto Penzler, Amor Towles
"Amor Towles selects the best mystery short stories of the year 2023, including tales by Andrew Child, Jeffrey Deaver, and T.C. Boyle"--
Asey Mayo, the "Codfish Sherlock Holmes," investigates the murder of a traveling performer.
John Dickson Carr
Dr. Gideon Fell solves two impossible murders in one of the most baffling locked room mysteries ever created.
Dorothy B. Hughes
Loyalty and friendship motivate a quest for revenge in this early noir novel by a master of the genre.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
An old woman suspects her own household staff of murder in this classic mystery by the author known as the American Agatha Christie.
S. S. Van Dine
Death stalks the halls of a New York City mansion in this celebrated Philo Vance mystery.
Penzler has selected these original international espionage stories by some of today’s hottest writers: Lee Child, Joseph Finder, Stephen Hunter, David Morrell, Robert Wilson, Charles McCarry, and others.
The stories in this book were originally published as part of The Vampire Archives in the United States by Vintage Books … in 2009 –T.p. verso.
This collection includes tales of the vampire by such notable authors as Robert Bloch, Harlan Ellison, Edgar Allan Poe, and Arthur Conan Doyle. Original.
Including stories by Ian Fleming, Eric Ambler, Sara Paretsky, Jeffrey Deaver, Olen Steinhauer, Joseph Finder, and many more –Cover.
The Vampire Archives is the scariest, hungriest, undeadliest collection of vampire stories ever assembled. From the first to last bite, it’s a bloody good read. This volume includes tales by…
From some of the most acclaimed mystery and suspense authors today come new stories for this anthology compiled by the legendary editor Otto Penzler, owner of the Mysterious Bookshop in…
A collection of short tales about dangerous women, written by top suspense authors, includes pieces by Nelson DeMille, J.A. Jance, and Elmore Leonard.
The first anthology ever devoted entirely to Russian crime fiction.
A premier anthology of some of the finest mystery stories in literary history, including tales from Bradbury, Dahl, Huxley, O. Henry, and Twain.
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Fourteen impossible crimes from the American masters of the form
Original stories from 12 crimes writers (among them Lawrence Block, Joyce Carol Oates, Peter Straub) on the theme of revenge.
A collection of 16 original stories from today’s foremost fiction writers, including Mary Higgins Clark, Jonathan Kellerman, Elmore Leonard, John Gardner, Ed McBain, Joyce Carol Oates, Sara Paretsky, Anne Perry…
After pulps, vampires, and zombies, Penzler turns his expert eye to a new genre for this collection.
This year’s collection promises to deliver the same stellar caliber of mystery stories that readers have come to expect from this series. Contributors include James Lee Burke, Michael Connelly, Joyce…
Presents a collection of nineteen unsolved mystery stories by a number of noted authors including Ray Bradbury, Roald Dahl, and Mark Twain where the ending is left up to the…
Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler’s latest anthology takes its inspiration from the historical enigma whose name has become synonymous with fear: Jack the Ripper.
Of the real-life serial killers whose…
The ultimate compendium of the legacy and legend of history’s most notorious murderer.
Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler’s new anthology brings together the most cunning, ruthless, and brilliant criminals in mystery fiction, for the biggest compendium of bad guys (and girls) ever assembled.
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From Michael Connelly and Faye Kellerman to Ian Rankin and Anne Perry, some of the most venerated and bestselling authors in the mystery world reveal how they create their most…
An anthology of stories inspired by the greatest detective of all time: Sherlock Holmes.
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Specially commissioned by the Mysterious Bookshop, the bibliomysteries in this unique collection feature original stories by the genre’s most distinguished authors: Ian Rankin, Thomas Perry, Joyce Carol Oates, Megan Abbott…
Here are 45 of the best stories and the major writers who ever appeared in celebrated pulps like Black Mask, Dime Detective, and Detective Fiction Weekly. These are the classic…
