| The Best American Mystery Stories 2007 Edition Contributor(s): Penzler, Otto (Author), Hiaasen, Carl (Author) |
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ISBN: 0618812652 ISBN-13: 9780618812653 Publisher: Mariner Books OUR PRICE: $20.85 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2007 Annotation: Bestselling novelist Hiaasen edits 2007s collection of the finest mystery writing from the past year. Contributors include Lawrence Block, James Lee Burke, John Dufresne, Louise Erdrich, William Gay, and David Means. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Collections & Anthologies |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Best American Mystery Stories |
| Physical Information: 0.98" H x 5.68" W x 8.16" (0.78 lbs) 352 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The best-selling author Carl Hiaasen takes the reins for the eleventh edition of this series, featuring twenty of the past year's most distinguished tales of mystery, crime, and suspense. Laura Lippman introduces us to a suburban soccer mom who moonlights as a call girl and who has a fateful encounter with a former client at her son's soccer game. Ridley Pearson traces a famous author of horror tales who becomes trapped in a real one after his wife vanishes while jogging. Joyce Carol Oates travels to a New Jersey racetrack where the animals that break down are of the two-legged type. Lawrence Block tells the story of Keller, a hitman for hire who happens to live in Greenwich Village, loves spicy food, and collects stamps as a hobby. And Scott Wolven plunges us into the world of an ex-con who takes a job at a private and very illegal Nevada racetrack where each day millions are won and lost. Mostly lost. As Carl Hiaasen notes in his introduction, "The stories in this collection would do honor to any anthology of short literature. More than transcending the genre of crime, they blow away its nebulous boundaries." The Best American Mystery Stories 2007 is a powerful collection certain to delight mystery aficionados and all lovers of great fiction. |
Contributor Bio(s): Penzler, Otto: - OTTO PENZLER is a renowned mystery editor, publisher, columnist, and owner of New York's The Mysterious Bookshop, the oldest and largest bookstore solely dedicated to mystery fiction. He has edited more than fifty crime-fiction anthologies. He lives in New York. |