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Best Crime Stories of the Year by Lee Otto; Child Penzler
$22.99 NZD
Category: Crime & Thrillers
Selected by #1 bestselling author Lee Child: the twenty finest short stories of 2021. There is no finer form for a crime than the short story. WIthin a few pages, a clue can be discovered, divulged and its significance determined; all else is mere embellishment. The classic mystery tale will be familia ...Show more
Big Book of Christmas Mysteries by Otto Penzler
$44.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
COLLECTIONS & ANTHOLOGIES OF VARIOUS LITERARY FORMS. Here, for your yuletide reading pleasure, are the collected crimes of Christmases Past and Present: sixty classic Christmas crime stories gathered together in the largest anthology of its kind ever assembled. And its an all-star line-up: Sherlock ...Show more
Dangerous Women by Otto Penzler
$26.99 NZD
Category: Crime & Thrillers
Prepare to meet the most seductively female and the most shockingly fatal of femme fatale, brought to you by seventeen of today's finest authors of mystery and suspense fiction. Award-winning editor Otto Penzler presents a collection of short and sizzling masterpieces of kisses and kiss-offs, gams and g ...Show more
Death Sentences: Stories of Deathly Books, Murderous Booksellers and Lethal Literature by Otto Penzler
$34.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
'What treats you have in store!' IAN RANKIN. Sigmund Freud deals with an unwelcome visitor; Columbo confronts a murderous bookseller; a Mexican cartel kingpin with a fatal weakness for rare books; deadly secrets deep in the London Library: who knew literature could be so lethal? Here are 15 short storie ...Show more
Pulp Fiction by Otto Penzler
$37.95 NZD
Category: Crime & Thrillers
Harlan Coben introduces a selection of the greatest of the great from the golden age of pulp fiction. Here are 14 classic tales of virtue versus villainy that will keep you riveted to your seat. Legendary writers you've already heard of like Dashiell Hammet, Earle Stanley Gardner, Cornell Woolrich and R ...Show more
Sherlock by Otto Penzler
$44.99 NZD
Category: Crime & Thrillers
In 1887, Arthur Conan Doyle put pen to paper and created a legend: Sherlock Holmes. The greatest detective of all time. His tall, slender, hawk-nosed figure with his deerstalker hat is instantly recognizable in every corner of the world. Alongside Doyle's original stories, Sherlock has spawned a literat ...Show more
THE BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES 2012 by PENZLER OTTO
$0.00 NZD
Category: Crime & Thrillers
The Best American Crime Reporting 2010 by Otto Penzler
$40.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs
Thieves, liars, and killers--it's a criminal world out there, and someone has to write about it. A thrilling collection of the year's best reportage by the aces of the true-crime genre, "The Best American Crime Reporting 2010" brings together the mysteries and missteps of an eclectic and unforgettable ...Show more
The Best American Mystery Stories 2008 by Otto Penzler (Edited by)
$40.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
Expect the unexpected and prepare to be entertained...No book published this year will deliver more thrills per page than this one. Here are twenty of the year's stand-out crime short stories, showcasing not only the very best of the genre, but also the very best American writing full stop. Previous edi ...Show more
The Best American Mystery Stories 2014 by Otto Penzler
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Category: Fiction | Series: Best American
"With so many great authors contributing to this fiction collection . . . it doesn't take detecting skills to discover the gem. And every story dazzles . . . These stories, in prose both elegant and compelling, get to the heart of why people do what they do." -- "USA Today""The Best American Mystery Sto ...Show more
The Best American Mystery Stories 2019 by Jonathan Lethem (Editor); Otto Penzler (Editor)
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Category: Essays & Anthologies | Series: The\Best American Series ® Ser.
New York Times best-selling author of ten genre-bending novels Jonathan Lethem helms this collection of the year's best mystery short fiction. For Jonathan Lethem, "crime stories are deep species gossip." He writes in his introduction that "they're fundamentally stories of power, of its exercise, both ...Show more
The Best American Mystery Stories 2020 by C. J. Box (Editor); Otto Penzler (Editor)
$40.00 NZD
Category: Essays & Anthologies | Series: The\Best American Series ® Ser.
A collection of the year's best mystery short fiction selected by New York Times best-selling and Edgar Award-winning author C. J. Box. C. J. Box, #1 New York Times best-selling author of the hugely popular Joe Pickett series, selects the best short mystery and crime fiction of the year in this annu ...Show more