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  | | The Black Lizard Big Book of Locked-Room Mysteries(1st Edition) (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Original) by Otto Penzler Paperback, 960 Pages, Published 2014 by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard ISBN-13: 978-0-307-74396-1, ISBN: 0-307-74396-9 "The Most Complete Collection of Impossible Crime Stories Ever Assembled, with puzzling mysteries by Stephen King, Dashiell Hammett, Lawrence Block, Agatha Christie, Georges Simenon, Dorothy L. Sayers, P. G. Wodehouse, Erle Stanley Gardner, and many, many moreTHE BLACK LIZARD BIG BOOK OF LOCKED-ROOM MYSTERIES: An empty desert, a lonely ski slope, a gentleman’s study, an elevator car—nowhere is a crime completely impossible.Edgar Award–wi ..." |
 | | The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps(Reprint) by Otto Penzler, Harlan Coben, Harlan Ellison, Laura Lippman Paperback, 1,168 Pages, Published 2007 by Vintage Unabridged ISBN-13: 978-0-307-28048-0, ISBN: 0-307-28048-9 "The biggest, the boldest, the most comprehensive collection of Pulp writing ever assembled. 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 train—a bullet couldn’t pass through it. Here are the best stories and every major writer who ever appeared in celebrated Pulps like Black Mask, Dime Detective, Detective Fiction Weekly, and ..." |
 | | The Best American Mystery Stories 2006(1st Edition) (The Best American Series) by Scott Turow, Otto Penzler Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2006 by Mariner Books ISBN-13: 978-0-618-51747-3, ISBN: 0-618-51747-2 ""[Most of] these stories are portraits, in styles ranging from sly to harrowing, of how crimes occurred ... If you like all your characters living at the end of a story, this may not be the book for you." -- from the introduction by Scott TurowBest-selling author Scott Turow takes the helm for the tenth edition of this annual, featuring twenty-one of the past year's most distinguished tales of mystery, crime, and suspense.Elmore Leonard ..." |
 | | The Best American Noir of the Century(Reprint) by James Ellroy, Otto Penzler, Ellroy/Penzler, Mariner Books Paperback, 752 Pages, Published 2011 by Mariner Books Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-547-57744-9, ISBN: 0-547-57744-3 ""Well worth its impressive weight in gold, it would be a crime not to have this seminal masterpiece in your collection."--"New York Journal of Books" In his introduction to "The Best American Noir of the Century," James Ellroy writes, "Noir is the most scrutinized offshoot of the hard-boiled school of fiction. It's the long drop off the short pier and the wrong man and the wrong woman in perfect misalliance. It's the nightmare of flawed ..." |
 | | The Best American Mystery Stories 2008 by Otto Penzler, George Pelecanos Paperback, 448 Pages, Published 2008 by Mariner Books ISBN-13: 978-0-618-81267-7, ISBN: 0-618-81267-9 "“A must-read for anyone who cares about crime stories.”—BooklistThe award-winning author and Emmy-nominated television writer George Pelecanos serves as editor of the twelfth installment of this genre-expanding anthology, featuring twenty of the past year’s most enthralling, suspenseful, and slyly illuminating mystery stories.A cut-and-dried case for a wily crime-scene reconstructionist is turned on its head in Michael Connelly’s “Mulho ..." |
 | | Best American Mystery Stories of the Century(1st Edition) by Tony Hillerman, Otto Penzler, Sue Grafton, Various Including Symons, Thomas Kyd, Austin Lee, G. K. Chesterton, Q. Patrick Hardcover, 813 Pages, Published 2000 by Houghton Mifflin ISBN-13: 978-0-618-01267-1, ISBN: 0-618-01267-2 "In THE BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES OF THE CENTURY, best-selling author Tony Hillerman and mystery expert Otto Penzler present an unparalleled treasury of American suspense fiction that every fan will cherish. Offering the finest examples from all reaches of the genre, this collection charts the mystery's eminent history from the turn-of-the-century puzzles of Futrelle, to the seminal pulp fiction of Hammett and Chandler, to the myster ..." |
 | | The Big Book of Female Detectives(Illustrated) by Otto Penzler Paperback, 1,136 Pages, Published 2018 by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard ISBN-13: 978-0-525-43474-0, ISBN: 0-525-43474-7 "Broschiertes BuchEdgar 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. For the first time ever, Otto Penzler gathers the most iconic women of the detective canon over the past 150 years, captivating and surprising readers in equal measure. The 74 handpicked stories in this collection introduce us to th ..." |
 | | The Big Book of Rogues and Villains(1st Edition) by Otto Penzler Paperback, 928 Pages, Published 2017 by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard ISBN-13: 978-0-525-43248-7, ISBN: 0-525-43248-5 "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. The best mysteries--whether detective, historical, police procedural, cozy, or comedy--have one thing in common: a memorable perpetrator. For every Sherlock Holmes or Sam Spade in noble pursuit, there's a Count Dracula, a L ..." |
 | | The Best American Mystery Stories 2020 (The Best American Series ®) by C. J. Box, Otto Penzler Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2020 by Mariner Books ISBN-13: 978-1-328-63610-2, ISBN: 1-328-63610-0 "A collection of the year’s 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 the best short mystery and crime fiction of the year in this annual “treat for crime-fiction fans” (Library Journal). " |
 | | The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) by Otto Penzler, Otto Penzler Compilation Paperback, 672 Pages, Published 2013 by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard ISBN-13: 978-0-345-80298-9, ISBN: 0-345-80298-5 "Have yourself a crooked little Christmas with The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries. Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler collects sixty of his all-time favorite holiday crime stories--many of which are difficult or nearly impossible to find anywhere else. From classic Victorian tales by Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Thomas Hardy, to contemporary stories by Sara Paretsky and Ed McBain, this collection touches on all a ..." |
 | | The Big Book of Adventure Stories (Vintage Original) by Otto Penzler, Douglas Preston Paperback, 896 Pages, Published 2011 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-307-47450-6, ISBN: 0-307-47450-X "A hair-raising collection of adventure stories that's so big and enthralling if you open it you may never be seen again: enter at your own risk. Everyone loves adventure, and Otto Penzler has collected the best adventure stories of all time into one mammoth volume. With stories by Jack London, O. Henry, H. Rider Haggard, Alastair MacLean, Talbot Mundy, Cornell Woolrich, and many others, this wide-reaching and fascinating volume contains ..." |
 | | The Best American Mystery Stories 2003 (The Best American Series) by Michael Connelly, Otto Penzler, Doug Allyn, Christopher Chambers, Christopher Cook, John Peyton Cooke, James Crumley, O'neil De Noux, Pete Dexter, Tyler Dilts, Mike Doogan, Brendan Dubois, Elmore Leonard, Robert Mckee, Walter Mosley Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2003 by Mariner Books ISBN-13: 978-0-618-32965-6, ISBN: 0-618-32965-X "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 and a hundred outstanding works. That selection is pared down to twenty or so very best pieces by a guest editor who is widely recognized as a leading writer in his or her field. This uniqu ..." |
 | | The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century(1st Edition) (The Best American Series) by Tony Hillerman, Otto Penzler Paperback, 840 Pages, Published 2001 by Mariner Books ISBN-13: 978-0-618-01271-8, ISBN: 0-618-01271-0 "Anthologies are tricky things for editors: to select a story for inclusion is to make oneself a target for readers who wonder hotly why X or Y or Z wasn't chosen. And to be so brash as to deem an anthology the best anything of the century practically invites scorn and condemnation. But with The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century, Tony Hillerman, Edgar-winning author, and Otto Penzler, founder of the Mysterious Press, step bold ..." |
 | | Murder for Love(2nd Edition) by Otto Penzler, Elmore Leonard, Faye Kellerman, Sara Paretsky, Higgins Clark, Delacorte Press Hardcover, 319 Pages, Published 1996 by Delacorte Press ISBN-13: 978-0-385-31466-4, ISBN: 0-385-31466-3 "From hearts and flowers to erotic obsession, from crimes of passion to the savage gentility of the Victorian gentry, here is love and death in infinite variety, a unique and unprecedented collection of original, never-before-published short mysteries by some of America's bestselling authors. It's the ultimate recipe for love gone wrong, sixteen acclaimed writers - eight men and eight women - offering vastly different perspectives on lov ..." |
 | | The Case of the Baited Hook A Perry Mason Mystery by Erle Stanley Gardner, Otto Penzler Paperback, 316 Pages, Published 2020 by American Mystery Classics ISBN-13: 978-1-61316-174-6, ISBN: 1-61316-174-3 "In one of Perry Mason’s most memorable cases ever, the lawyer risks his freedom to prove the innocence of an unidentified client.The bait is half of a $10,000 bill, delivered to Perry Mason by a man who promises the second half of the note should his companion, a silent masked woman, ever require the lawyer’s services. When a dead body is discovered soon after, Mason feels the hook―but how can one prove the innocence of a person whose i ..." |
 | | The Big Book of Reel Murders Stories that Inspired Great Crime Films by Otto Penzler 752 Pages, Published 2019 by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard ISBN-13: 978-0-525-56389-1, ISBN: 0-525-56389-X "... (Wild Eye, 2016; rereleased as Never Leave Alive, 2017), with John Hennigan, Michelle Taylor, and Eric Etebari; and The Hounds of Zaroff (Lucky 70, 2016; not released until 2018), with Rachel Schrey, Devin Schmidt, and Timo Schrey." |
 | | The Big Book of Female Detectives by Otto Penzler 752 Pages, Published 2018 by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard ISBN-13: 978-0-525-43475-7, ISBN: 0-525-43475-5 "The stories featuring Jack Cardigan, an operative for the Cosmos Detective Agency, and Patricia Seaward, who works ... Nebel wrote two novels, both of which were filmed: Sleepers East (1933), released a year after the novel was ... “ Red Hot” was originally published in the July 1, 1934, issue of Dime Detective; it was first collected in The Complete Casebook of Cardigan, Volume 3: 1934–35 ( Boston, Altus, 2012). Red Hot FREDERICK NE ..." |
 | | The Big Book of Rogues and Villains by Otto Penzler 752 Pages, Published 2017 by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard ISBN-13: 978-0-525-43249-4, ISBN: 0-525-43249-3 "They drew together, uttering frightened exclamations; and the lights flashed as the others came pouring out of the cemetery pell-mell, like men possessed. When the further ones came close to us, those who were around me asked them eagerly: “Well, have you found him?” The reply rang out hurriedly: “No! No! Come away quick—quick! This is no place to stay, and on this of all nights!” “What was it ?” was the question, asked in all manne ..." |
 | | Agents of Treachery by Otto Penzler 448 Pages, Published 2010 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-307-47752-1, ISBN: 0-307-47752-5 "He saw no trip wires or other booby traps. His left index finger pressed the switch of the IR SureFire attached to his M4 and painted the low-ceilinged foyer left-right , right-left, his eyes leading the muzzle. All clear. He, Jose, and Fred started forward. Tuzz would remain outside, making sure they weren't interrupted. 0412. The three men soundlessly cleared the sparsely furnished living room, then moved into the dining area. Tha ..." |
 | | The Lineup The World's Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives by Otto Penzler 416 Pages, Published 2009 by Little, Brown ISBN-13: 978-0-316-07182-6, ISBN: 0-316-07182-X "The World's Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives Otto Penzler ... When just one or two details of the mystery novel are twisted, the opposite becomes the case, and the world that is revealed is ... to the mystery with which they have been presented in the course of the book, and writers in the genre have a certain obligation to ... the skulls of children; the skulls of children and the bodies of ..." |
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