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Tony Hillerman The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- Best American Mystery Stories of the Century
- Publication Name
- The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century
- Title
- The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century
- Contributor
- Otto Penzler (Edited by)
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0618012710
- EAN
- 9780618012718
- ISBN
- 9780618012718
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Genre
- Literary Collections, Fiction
- Topic
- Mystery & Detective / Collections & Anthologies, American / General, Essays
- Release Date
- 13/04/2001
- Release Year
- 2001
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Weight
- 30.8 Oz
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publication Year
- 2001
- Item Height
- 2in
- Item Width
- 6in
- Number of Pages
- 832 Pages
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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 mystery story's rise to legitimacy in the popular mind, a trend that has benefited masterly writers like Westlake, Hunter, and Grafton. Nowhere else can readers find a more thorough, more engaging, more essential distillation of American crime fiction. Penzler, the Best American Mystery Stories series editor, and Hillerman winnowed this select group out of a thousand stories, drawing on sources as diverse as Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and Esquire, Collier's and The New Yorker. Giants of the genre abound -- Raymond Chandler, Stephen King, Dashiell Hammett, Lawrence Block, Ellery Queen, Sara Paretsky, and others -- but the editors also unearthed gems by luminaries rarely found in suspense anthologies: William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, Damon Runyon, Harlan Ellison, James Thurber, and Joyce Carol Oates. Mystery buffs and newcomers alike will delight in the thrilling stories and top-notch writing of a hundred years' worth of the finest suspense, crime, and mystery writing.
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HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0618012710
ISBN-13
9780618012718
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Product Key Features
Book Title
Best American Mystery Stories of the Century
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Mystery & Detective / Collections & Anthologies, American / General, Essays
Publication Year
2001
Genre
Literary Collections, Fiction
Number of Pages
832 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
2in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
30.8 Oz
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"I wound up these 800-odd pages accepting [the editors'] proposition that mysteries come in many respectable guises, whether as puzzles, romps, chillers, social commentary, or ,very occasionally, literary endeavors, and sorting them out does not seem to be worth the trouble. So forget about what certifies a true mystery and enjoy the skill, ingenuity and surprises that the species, however described, offers. The only distinction that matters in so happily free-ranghing an endeavor is whether the story works." - Wednesday, February 16th The New York Times "This anthology is a cornerstone volume for any mystery library." Publishers Weekly
Table of Content
Foreword by Otto Penzler ix Introduction by Tony Hillerman xiv 1903 * O. Henry A Retrieved Reformation 1 1905 * Willa Cather Paul's Case 8 1905 * Jacques Futrelle The Problem of Cell 13 26 1914 * Frederick Irving Anderson Blind Man's Buff 58 1916 * Melville Davisson Post Naboth's Vineyard 73 1917 * Susan Glaspell A Jury of Her Peers 85 1925 * Dashiell Hammett The Gutting of Couffignal 105 1925 * Ring Lardner Haircut 133 1925 * Wilbur Daniel Steele Blue Murder 144 1928 * Ben Ray Redman The Perfect Crime 162 1933 * James M. Cain The Baby in the Icebox 178 1933 * John Steinbeck The Murder 193 1934 * Damon Runyan Sense of Humor 204 1938 * Pearl S. Buck Ransom 212 1938 * Raymond Chandler Red Wind 235 1942 * James Thurber The Catbird Seat 279 1942 * Cornell Woolrich Rear Window 288 1946 * William Faulkner An Error in Chemistry 318 1947 * Harry Kemelman The Nine Mile Walk 335 1947 * Ellery Queen The Adventure of the President's Half Disme 344 1950 * John D. MacDonald The Homesick Buick 363 1953 * Ross Macdonald Gone Girl 375 1955 * Stanley Ellin The Moment of Decision 405 1955 * Evan Hunter First Offense 426 1957 * Margaret Millar The Couple Next Door 443 1957 * Henry Slesar The Day of the Execution 458 1962 * Patricia Highsmith The Terrapin 466 1965 * Shirley Jackson The Possibility of Evil 479 1965 * Flannery O'Connor The Comforts of Home 489 1967 * Jerome Weidman Good Man, Bad Man 508 1969 * Joe Gores Goodbye, Pops 523 1973 * Harlan Ellison The Whimper of Whipped Dogs 530 1973 * Robert L. Fish The Wager 547 1973 * Joyce Carol Oates Do with Me What You Will 556 1978 * Stephen King Quitters, Inc. 568 1981 * Jack Ritchie The Absence of Emily 587 1984 * Lawrence Block By the Dawn's Early Light 597 1984 * Stephen Greenleaf Iris 615 1984 * Sara Paretsky Three-Dot Po 635 1986 * Sue Grafton The Parker Shotgun 649 1989 * Donald E. Westlake Too Many Crooks 665 1996 * James Crumley Hot Springs 678 1996 * Brendan DuBois The Dark Snow 694 1996 * Michael Malone Red Clay 713 1998 * Tom Franklin Poachers 729 1999 * Dennis Lehane Running Out of Dog 770 Biographical Notes 801
Copyright Date
2001
Dewey Decimal
808.83872
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Trade
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Best American Ser.
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