Otto Penzler
"With so many great authors contributing to this fiction collection . . . it doesn't take detecting skills to discover the gem. And every story dazzles . . . These stories, in prose both elegant and compelling, get to the heart of why people do what they do." — USA Today
The Best American Mystery Stories 2014 will be selected by "writing powerhouse" (USA Today) Laura Lippman. With her popular Tess Monaghan series and
...Including:
* Lee Child with an incredible look at the formation of a special ops cell.
* James Grady writing about an Arab undercover FBI agent with an active cell.
* Joseph Finder...
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,...First in the Moriarty Trilogy—"Moriarty holds sway with all the ruthless guile, power, and pomp you'd expect from a gaslight era godfather" (Los Angeles Times).
Once again, the game is afoot . . .
What really happened in Switzerland between Moriarty and Sherlock Holmes in 1891? And why is Holmes, now in London at 221B Baker Street, curiously uncooperative with Scotland Yard's inquiries? Furthermore, why
...This collection of suspenseful stories from legendary authors will test your detective instincts and imagination.
A premier anthology of some of the finest mystery stories in literary history, including tales from Ray Bradbury, Roald Dahl, Aldous Huxley, O. Henry, and Mark Twain.
Tantalizing, as ingenious as they are devious, the classic stories in this continually arresting collection come with an irresistible challenge:
...Crimes of passion are as old as love itself. A man, a woman, a weapon: it's the perfect for love gone wrong. And Murder for Love: Murder for Women is the perfect and only collection of love stories with a delectable devious twist: Murder. Eight works of short fiction from the very best females writer inside and out of the mystery field provide compelling listening in this distinctive collection. These witty, never-before-published stories are
...In Pursuit of Spenser offers a look at Parker and to Spenser through the eyes...