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Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Otto Penzler
Fifteen puzzling tales from the masters of the mystery genre
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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.
Thirteen festive crime stories set in New York City's beloved mystery bookstore
Gaston Leroux, Otto Penzler
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…
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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, including tales by Andrew Child, Jeffery Deaver, and T.C. Boyle.
In his introduction to this volume, guest editor Amor…
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…
John Dickson Carr
Dr. Gideon Fell solves two impossible murders in one of the most baffling locked room mysteries ever created.
Phoebe Atwood Taylor
Asey Mayo, the "Codfish Sherlock Holmes," investigates the murder of a traveling performer.
S S Van Dine
Death stalks the halls of a New York City mansion in this celebrated Philo Vance mystery.
A collection of the best mystery writing published in 2011 culled from a variety of sources.
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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Including stories by Ian Fleming, Eric Ambler, Sara Paretsky, Jeffrey Deaver, Olen Steinhauer, Joseph Finder, and many more –Cover.
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* A collection of original stories centring around horseracing, from some of today’s great writers.
A collection of short tales about dangerous women, written by top suspense authors, includes pieces by Nelson DeMille, J.A. Jance, and Elmore Leonard.
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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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.
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…
The first anthology ever devoted entirely to Russian crime fiction.
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…
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…
This collection includes tales of the vampire by such notable authors as Robert Bloch, Harlan Ellison, Edgar Allan Poe, and Arthur Conan Doyle. Original.
An anthology of stories inspired by the greatest detective of all time: Sherlock Holmes.
Fourteen impossible crimes from the American masters of the form
After pulps, vampires, and zombies, Penzler turns his expert eye to a new genre for this collection.
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…
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.
Original stories from 12 crimes writers (among them Lawrence Block, Joyce Carol Oates, Peter Straub) on the theme of revenge.
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.
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…
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.
The editors present a collection of the best mystery writing culled from a variety of sources.
The ultimate compendium of the legacy and legend of history’s most notorious murderer.
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…
Otto Penzler and guest editor Elizabeth George collect the best mystery writing of the year.
An anthology of the best mystery short stories published in 2017 selected by best-selling author Louise Penny.
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.
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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…
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…
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…
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
