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The Best American mystery stories, 2007 (Best American series)
By Otto Penzler, Carl Hiassen. 2007
Twenty tales of mystery, crime, and suspense. In Laura Lippman's "One True Love," a soccer mom who moonlights as a…
prostitute encounters an unsavory ex-client. Also features authors Lawrence Block, James Lee Burke, Louise Erdrich, and Joyce Carol Oates. Some descriptions of sex, some violence, and some strong language. 2007A moment on the edge: 100 years of crime stories by women
By Elizabeth George. 2004
Bestselling author of the Thomas Lynley series selects wide-ranging mystery, suspense, and psychological fiction written between 1917 and 2001. Includes…
works by Dorothy L. Sayers, Ngaio Marsh, Shirley Jackson, Joyce Carol Oates, Minette Walters, and other female writers. Some descriptions of sex, some violence, and some strong language. 2002My heroes have always been cowboys
By Lorraine Heath, Georgina Gentry, Teresa Bodwell. 2006
Three western romances. In Georgina Gentry's "The Great Cowboy Race," heiress Henrietta Jennings enters a thousand-mile horse race from Nebraska…
to Illinois and falls for her toughest competitor, wrangler Comanche Jones. Also includes Teresa Bodwell's "Moonlight Whispers" and Lorraine Heath's "The Reluctant Hero." Some explicit descriptions of sex. 2006Twin Cities noir
By Steven Horwitz, Julie Schaper. 2006
Fifteen authors from the Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, area present original stories of past, present, and future detection and…
mystery. In Judith Guest's "Eminent Domain," someone hijacks a web domain name, and in K.J. Erickson's "Noir Neige" and Mary Sharratt's "Taking the Bullets Out," cultures collide. Strong language. 2006Dublin noir: the Celtic tiger vs the ugly American
By Eoin Colfer, Ken Bruen. 2006
Nineteen short crime stories set in the Irish capital. In Laura Lippman's "The Honor Bar" a scorned American tourist exacts…
revenge on her ex-boyfriend with a new conquest. Also includes selections by Gary Phillips, Ray Banks, Jim Fusilli, and others. Descriptions of sex, violence, and strong language. 2006The Portable western reader (Viking portable library)
By Various, William Kittredge. 1997
Anthology of stories, poems, essays, and excerpts exploring the range and evolution of Western American literature including the Native American…
experience. Features selections by Louise Erdrich, Lewis and Clark, Jack London, John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway, Larry McMurtry, Raymond Carver, W.H. Auden, Ken Kesey, Barry Lopez, and others. 1997D.C. noir
By Robert Andrews, Laura Lippman, James Grady, Jim Patton, George Pelecanos, Kenji Jasper, Jim Fusilli, Norman Kelley, Jennifer Howard, Ruben Castaneda, David Slater, Lester Irby, Quintin Peterson, Robert Wisdom, Jim Beane, Robert Currey. 2006
Sixteen short mysteries set in distinct neighborhoods of Washington, D.C. In the editor's piece "The Confidential Informant," a son tries…
to impress his father by selling information to the police. "The Dupe" by Jim Fusilli highlights the duplicity of politicians. Violence, strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 2006"Wicked" women whodunit
By Jennifer Apodaca, Amy Garvey, Nancy J. Cohen, MaryJanice Davidson. 2005
Four short mysteries involving unlucky women and their lovers. In "Single White Dead Guy" Lanie's stay at a vacation cabin…
leads to murder and love. In "Fast Boys" Tess is forced to help NASCAR racer Ark Underwood save his reputation. Explicit descriptions of sex, strong language, and some violence. 2005Westward: a fictional history of the American West : 28 original stories celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Western Writers of America
By Dale L. Walker, Western Writers of America Staff. 2003
Anthology of original western stories captures the westward legacy from a North American's first glimpse of a horse in sixteenth-century…
Kansas to a 1913 gunbattle in a Utah copper mine. Authors include Loren D. Estleman, Don Coldsmith, John Jakes, and Richard S. Wheeler. Some strong language. 2003McSweeney's mammoth treasury of thrilling tales (Vintage Contemporaries)
By Michael Chabon. 2003
Chabon, author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (DB 50950), presents a compilation of twenty previously unpublished short…
detective and science tales by such authors as Elmore Leonard, Neil Gaiman, Nick Hornby, Stephen King, Michael Moorcock, and Harlan Ellison. Strong language and some violence. Bestseller. 2002Tales of the American West: the best of Spur award-winning authors
By Richard S. Wheeler. 2000
Fifteen western short stories spanning the frontier experience. "The Indian Summer of Nancy Redwing" by Harry W. Paige depicts the…
despair of a reservation woman at home alone on her thirty-fifth birthday. Loren D. Estleman's "The Cat King of Cochise County" is a comic tale about the discoverer of chicken wire. 2000Still wild: short fiction of the American West, 1950 to the present
By Larry McMurtry. 2000
Author of Lonesome Dove (DB 22959) has compiled twenty tales about the American West by writers of the late twentieth…
century, including Wallace Stegner, Jack Kerouac, Louise Erdrich, Annie Proulx, and William H. Gass. These pieces demonstrate how western stories have evolved and matured since the 1950s. Some strong language. 2000The best American mystery stories, 2001 (Best American series)
By Lawrence Block, Otto Penzler. 2001
Twenty of the year 2000's best short mystery stories selected from magazines. In "Lobster Night" by Russell Banks a barmaid…
murders her employer. In "Easy Street" by T. Jefferson Parker an FBI agent returns to southern California to catch a bank robber. Violence, strong language, and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2001American West: twenty new stories
By Loren D. Estleman. 2001
Twenty nontraditional "western" tales. "The Guardians," a story by Don Coldsmith, is based on a historical incident in which Native…
Americans are not attackers but protectors. In "A Piano at Dead Man's Crossing," Johnny D. Boggs writes a moving narrative from the perspective of a piano. Some strong language. 2001A selection of eighteen short stories. Includes "The Idyl of Red Gulch" by Bret Harte, "The Lonesome Road" by O.…
Henry, and tales by Jack London, Mark Twain, John Jakes, Louis L'Amour, Evan Hunter, Bill Pronzini, Marcia Muller, Erle Stanley Gardner, and Ed Gorman. 1996. 1996The best American mystery stories, 1999 (Best American (TM))
By Ed Mcbain, Otto Penzler. 1999
Collection of nineteen mysteries by well-known authors Lawrence Block, Ed Gorman, Phillip M. Margolin, John Updike, and others. In "Redneck,"…
private eye Amos Walker tracks a cheating wife--with murderous results. In "Wrong Time, Wrong Place," two punks kidnap the wrong couple. Some violence and some strong language. 1999Nineteen short western stories from well-known authors like Louis L'Amour, John Jakes, Elmore Leonard, and John D. MacDonald. In Lost…
Sister a white woman is returned to her family after living with Indians for forty years. In Markers two cowpokes ponder the different epitaphs they have read. Some violence. 1994Mystery midrash: an anthology of Jewish mystery and detective fiction
By Joel Siegel, Lawrence W. Raphael, Toni Brill, Howard Engel, Richard Fliegel, Michael Kahn, Stuart M. Kaminsky, Faye Kellerman, Ronald Levitsky, Ellen Rawlings, Shelley Singer, Bob Sloan, Janice Steinberg, James Yaffe, Batya Swift Yasgur. 1999
The big book of victorian mysteries
By Otto Penzler. 2022
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 miscreants. Behind the velvet curtains of horse-drawn carriages and amid the soft glow of the gaslights are the detectives and bobbies sniffing out the safecrackers and petty purloiners who plague everything from the soot-covered side streets of London to the opulent manors of the countryside. With his latest title in the Big Book series, Otto Penzler is cracking cases and serving up the most thrilling, suspenseful Victorian mysteries. This collection brings together incredible stories from Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Hardy, Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, and Guy de Maupassant, among other legendary writers of the grand era of the British Empire. So brush off your dinner jackets and straighten out your ball gowns for these exciting, glitzy mysteriesThe best American mystery stories of the century
By Tony Hillerman, Otto Penzler. 2000
Anthology of short crime stories of the twentieth century. Includes classic authors like O. Henry, Raymond Chandler, William Faulkner, and…
Ellery Queen and contemporary writers like Sue Grafton, Lawrence Block, and Dennis Lehane. Foreword by Otto Penzler. Some descriptions of sex, some violence, and some strong language. 2000