Best American Mystery Stories of the Century

Name: Best American Mystery Stories of the Century
Price: 3.69 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780618012718

ISBN-10: 0618012710

ISBN-13: 9780618012718

Edition: 2001

Authors: Otto Penzler, Otto Penzler

List price: $23.99

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Buy used: $7.17

Marketplace

3 new & used from $3.69

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

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…

Book details

List price: $23.99
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 4/13/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 832
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.2
Language: English

Otto Penzler owns the Mysterious Bookshop in New York & founded the Mysterious Press & Otto Penzler Books. He has written & edited several books, including the Edgar-winning "Encyclopedia of Mystery & Detection".



Foreword



Introduction



A Retrieved Reformation (1903)



Paul's Case (1905)



The Problem of Cell 13 (1905)



Blind Man's Buff (1914)



Naboth's Vineyard (1916)



A Jury of Her Peers (1917)



The Gutting of Couffignal (1925)



Haircut (1925)



Blue Murder (1925)



The Perfect Crime (1928)



The Baby in the Icebox (1933)



The Murder (1933)



Sense of Humor (1934)



Ransom (1938)



Red Wind (1938)



The Catbird Seat (1942)



Rear Window (1942)



An Error in Chemistry (1946)



The Nine Mile Walk (1947)



The Adventure of the President's Half Disme (1947)



The Homesick Buick (1950)



Gone Girl (1953)



The Moment of Decision (1955)



First Offense (1955)



The Couple Next Door (1957)



The Day of the Execution (1957)



The Terrapin (1962)



The Possibility of Evil (1965)



The Comforts of Home (1965)



Good Man, Bad Man (1967)



Goodbye, Pops (1969)



The Whimper of Whipped Dogs (1973)



The Wager (1973)



Do with Me What You Will (1973)



Quitters, Inc. (1978)



The Absence of Emily (1981)



By the Dawn's Early Light (1984)



Iris (1984)



Three-Dot Po (1984)



The Parker Shotgun (1986)



Too Many Crooks (1989)



Hot Springs (1996)



The Dark Snow (1996)



Red Clay (1996)



Poachers (1998)



Running Out of Dog (1999)



Biographical Notes