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1) The Lineup: The World's Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A great recurring character in a series you love becomes an old friend. You learn about their strange quirks and their haunted pasts and root for them every time they face danger. But where do some of the most fascinating sleuths in the mystery and thriller world really come from? What was the real-life location that inspired Michael Connelly to make Harry Bosch a Vietnam vet tunnel rat? Why is Lee Child's Jack Reacher a drifter? How did a brief encounter...
Publisher
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard/Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler is back with a new anthology that has gathered the intel on the world's greatest secret agents, declassified in these pages for the first time. Statesecrets. Double agents. Leaks. Otto Penzler brings you all this and more with his latest title in the Big Book series. No need to wait for the government to release redacted information, Otto is ready to declassify confidential matters."--Provided by publisher....
Series
Publisher
Vintage Crime / Black Lizard : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Edgar Award-winning editor Penzler's new anthology rolls out the red carpet for the stories that Hollywood hits are made of. He delivers the director's cut of classic short stories that inspired some of Tinsletown's most memorable films. ... Including... works by:Authors include: Edgar Allan Poe, Cornell Woolrich, Aldous Huxley, Ian Fleming, Robert Louis Stevenson, Budd Schulberg, O. Henry, W. Somerset Maugham, and many more.--
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Collects eighty-three stories ... published over a span of a hundred years. Featuring ... cases from [the master himself, Arthur Conan Doyle], Leslie S. Klinger, Laurie R. King, Lyndsay Faye, and Daniel Stashower; pastiches from ... classic (P.G. Wodehouse, Dorothy B. Hughes, Kingsley Amis), and current (Anne Perry, Stephen King, [Neil Gaiman], Colin Dexter); parodies from Doyle's contemporaries (A.A. Milne, James M. Barrie, O. Henry); genre-bending...
Publisher
Dove Books
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
The greatest stories by the greatest writers in the history of mystery fiction. Savor the delights in this fine collection, a must for every library, in which multi-award winning mystery connoisseur Otto Penzler presents the fifty most exquisite tales of mystery and suspense from fifty master writers.
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Under the auspices of New York City's legendary mystery fiction specialty bookstore, The Mysterious Bookshop, and aided by Edgar Award-winning anthologist Otto Penzler, international bestseller Lee Child has selected the twenty most suspenseful, most confounding, and most mysterious short stories from the past year, collected now in one entertaining volume. Includes stories by: Alison Gaylin, David Morrell, James Lee Burke, Joyce Carol Oates, Martin...
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
If you open your dictionary, you will discover that there is no such word as "bibliomystery." However, most mystery readers know that the word refers to a mystery story that involves the world of books: a bookshop, a rare volume, a library, a collector, or a bookseller. The stories in this unique collection were commissioned by the Mysterious Bookshop. They were written by some of the mystery genre's most distinguished authors. Tough guys like Ken...
18) The haunted lady
Author
Publisher
Penzler Publishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Someone's trying to kill the head of the Fairbanks estate, and only her nurse can protect her. Reissued for the first time in over twenty years, and featuring one of Mary Roberts Rinehart's only series characters. The Haunted Lady is the thrilling follow-up to Miss Pinkerton, also available from American Mystery Classics.
20) The lineup: the world's greatest crime writers tell the inside story of their greatest detectives
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Shares the stories behind the creations of many of the mystery genre's most popular characters, revealing the inspirations for such examples as Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch and Alexander McCall Smith's Precious Ramotswe.
