Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, October 2013. Trade Paperback. The most complete collection of Yuletide whodunits ever assembled - The Edgar Award-winning editor collects sixty of his all-time favorite holiday crime stories--from Arthur Conan Doyle and Thomas Hardy to Sara Paretsky and Ed McBain. "Anyone who cares about the best mystery writing..... More
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, October 2018. Trade Paperback. Edgar 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..... More
Mysterious Press, October 2024. Hardcover. The oldest mystery specialty bookstore in the world, The Mysterious Bookshop, has for most of its forty-five-year history commissioned an original short story as a holiday gift for its customers. Written exclusively for the store and never published elsewhere, the stories were given as a...... More
American Mystery Classics, July 2023. Trade Paperback. 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. In Vincent Starrett's "A Volume of Poe," a bookseller is murdered; in Ellery Queen's "The Adventure of..... More
American Mystery Classics, October 2025. Trade Paperback. Christmas has served as a fertile background for mystery fiction for a very long time, perhaps because it has the appearance of a time of peace and love while being so at odds with violence, crime, and even murder. This delightful seasonal anthology..... More
American Mystery Classics, July 2024. Trade Paperback. Depending on who you ask, the term "whodunit" was first coined sometime around 1930, but the literary form predates that name by several decades. Still, it was in the years between the two World Wars--the so-called "Golden Age" of mystery fiction--that the style..... More
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, September 2011. Trade Paperback. 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 moment in the world of zombies. They are superstars of horror and they..... More
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