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A special edition of the 100 best Yuletide whodunnits.
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Otto Penzler
In these classic mystery tales, literature is a matter of life or death
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* A collection of original stories centring around horseracing, from some of today’s great writers.
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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
A collection of the best mystery writing published in 2011 culled from a variety of sources.
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…
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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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.
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…
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…
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…
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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…
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…
Stuart Palmer
After a screenwriter is murdered on a film set, a street-smart school teacher searches for the killer.
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…
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…
Otto Penzler 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…
The mystery and crime fiction of the Algonquin Round Table. With the possible exception of the expatriate writers living in Paris in the 1920s, no single group of American literary…
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…
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.
Ellery Queen
A topsy-turvy crime scene sends a detective on a puzzling quest for the truth.
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!
Otto Penzler,James Ellroy
A treasure trove of a hundred years’ worth of the finest noir writing selected by James Ellroy
Patrick Quentin
A wave of murders rocks a sanitarium-and it’s up to the patients to stop them
Ellery Queen investigates a murder at the circus rodeo
Vincent Starrett
A 1920s cruise ship is destined for destruction in this cozy mystery by the author of The Great Hotel Murder.
In this classic whodunnit, crime-solving teacher Hildegarde Withers discovers a dead body while on a trip to the New York Aquarium with her third-grade class.
Clayton Rawson
A detective steeped in the art of magic solves the mystifying murder of two occultists.
Craig Rice
The children of a mystery writer play amateur sleuths and matchmakers
Stuart Palmer,Otto Penzler
Charlotte Armstrong
To catch a murderous theater impresario, a young woman takes a deadly new role
A wave of murders rocks a sanitarium–and it’s up to the patients to stop them
After a wealthy woman is strangled in a hospital full of relatives and friends, Ellery Queen searches for her deadly enemy.
Ellery Queen investigates a series of bizarre murders that lead to a mysterious religious cult
The twenty best mystery short stories of the year, including tales by various popular crime writers.