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Edgar Award-winning editor Penzler’s new anthology rolls out the red carpet for the stories that Hollywood is made of. He delivers the director’s cut on these classic short stories and…
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An anthology of the best mystery short stories published in 2017 selected by best-selling author Louise Penny.
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* A collection of original stories centring around horseracing, from some of today’s great writers.
Otto Penzler and guest editor Elizabeth George collect the best mystery writing of the year.
Edgar Award winner Otto Penzler- detective fiction’s best editor and champion (The Washington Post)-returns with a new anthology of exhilarating mysteries, assembling Victorian society’s lords and ladies and most miserable…
A collection of original stories centering around tennis, from authors that include Lawrence Block, Mike Lupica, Ridley Pearson, and Lisa Scottoline
Original tales of bad shots, terrible lies and other deadly handicaps from today’s great writers
Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler’s new anthology brings together the most cunning, resourceful, and brilliant female sleuths in mystery fiction. A Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Original.
For the first time ever…
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A special edition of the 100 best Yuletide whodunnits.
The greatest detectives of the Golden Age investigate the most puzzling crimes of the era
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The greatest detectives of the Golden Age investigate the most puzzling crimes of the era.
In these classic mystery tales, literature is a matter of life or death
The biggest collection of Sherlock Holmes stories ever assembled!
Arguably no other character in history has been so enduringly popular as Sherlock Holmes. Ever since his first appearance, in Arthur…
A Vintage crime/Black lizard original –Title page verso.
The best mystery and crime fiction ever produced by African-American writers. Contributors to the collection include Robert Greer, Chester Himes, Walter Mosley, Cary Phillips, Frankie Bailey, and Richard Wright.
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Zombies! Zombies! Zombies! is the darkest, the living-deadliest, scariest–and dare we say most tasteful–collection of zombie stories ever assembled. It’s so good, it’s a no-brainer.
There is never a dull…
Penzler collects the best adventure stories of all time into one mammoth volume, with stories by Jack London, O. Henry, Rudyard Kipling, H. G. Wells, Edgar Rice Burroughs, H. Rider…
Otto Penzler (Editor)
With contributions from more than 80 authors –Cover.
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!
Craig Rice
The children of a mystery writer play amateur sleuths and matchmakers
A Wall Street Journal holiday 2021 pick A Suspense Magazine Best Book of the Year Lee Child selects the twenty best mystery short stories of the year, including tales by…
The best-selling and award-winning Laura Lippman edits a collection of the best mystery writing published in 2013 selected from hundreds of magazines, journals, books, and websites.
Mega best-selling mystery and thriller novelist James Patterson edits a collection of the best mystery writing.
A collection of the best mystery writing published in 2011 culled from a variety of sources.
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.
Bestselling novelist Deaver edits this latest collection of the genre’s finest from the past year. Featuring gritty tales told with panache, this is a must-read for anybody who cares about…
Bestselling author Block selects the best mystery stories of the year by writers including Joyce Carol Oates, T. Jefferson Parker, Russell Banks, and Peter Robinson.
This anthology marks its seventh year by featuring selections from all reaches of the genre. World-renowned mystery scribe Connelly has chosen work by mystery favorites as well as talented up-and-comers…
This volume brings together the genre’s finest from the past year. With stories from mystery veterans and newly discovered talents, this thrilling collection is sure to appeal to crime fiction…
The twenty best mystery short stories of the year, including tales by various popular crime writers.
The acclaimed author of The General’s Daughter serves as guest editor for this new collection of the finest mystery tales of the year, in an anthology that incorporates pieces of…
An anthology of 20 original stories about deadly books from the world’s best crime writers.
Selected by #1 bestselling author Lee Child: the twenty finest short stories of 2021.
Stuart Palmer
After a screenwriter is murdered on a film set, a street-smart school teacher searches for the killer.
Ellery Queen
A topsy-turvy crime scene sends a detective on a puzzling quest for the truth.
Sally Cline
Dashiell Hammett changed the face of crime fiction. A controversial political activist who stood for civil liberty, he was also a very private man. In this biography, the author uses…
New York Times-bestselling author of 10 genre-bending novels Lethem helms this collection of the year’s best mystery short fiction.
Otto Penzler,James Ellroy
A treasure trove of a hundred years’ worth of the finest noir writing selected by James Ellroy
The editors present a collection of the best mystery writing culled from a variety of sources.
