Of crime fiction's many sub-genres, none is so reflexive and so intriguing as the "bibliomystery": stories that involve crimes set, somehow, in the world of books.
Edgar Award winner Otto Penzlerââdetective fictionâs best editor and championâ (The Washington Post )âreturns with a new anthology of exhilarating mysteries, assembl...
A collection of the yearâs best mystery short fiction selected by New York Times best-selling and Edgar Award-winning author C. J. Box. C. J. Box, #1 New York Times best-selling author of the hugely popular Joe Pickett series, selects...
#1 New York Times best-selling author of the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache novels, Louise Penny brings her "nerve and skill--as well as heart" (Maureen Corrigan, Washington Post ) to selecting the best short mystery and crime fiction of the...
What you ll find in this volume are stories that demonstrate a mastery of plotting; stories that compel you to keep turning the pages because of plot and because of setting; stories that wield suspense like a sword; stories of people getting their comeupp...
In his introduction, guest editor James Patterson observes, "I often hear people lamenting the state of Hollywood . . If thatâs the case, Iâve got one thing to say: read these short stories. You can thank me later....
"With so many great authors contributing to this fiction collection . . it doesnât 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...
The most complete collection of Yuletide whodunits ever assembled ⢠The Edgar Award-winning editor collects sixty of his all-time favorite holiday crime storiesâfrom Arthur Conan Doyle and Thomas Hardy to Sara Paretsky...
Weighing in at over a thousand pages, containing over forty-seven stories and two novels, this book is big baby, bigger and more powerful than a freight trainâa bullet couldnât pass through it. Here are the best stories...
Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty...