Download or read book A Treasury of American Mystery Stories written by Frank D. McSherry and published by Random House Value Publishing. This book was released on 1989 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty-one brain-teasing tales, one from each state in the Union plus the District of Columbia.
Download or read book The Best American Mystery Stories of the 19th Century written by Otto Penzler and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2014 with total page 629 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unparalleled treasury of American 19th century mystery fiction selected and introduced by Otto Penzler.
Download or read book The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century written by Tony Hillerman and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2000 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this essential distillation of American suspense, 100 years worth of peerless tales are collected into a volume where giants of the genre abound: Raymond Chandler, Lawrence Block, Sue Grafton, Elmore Leonard, and Sara Paretsky.
Download or read book The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century written by Tony Hillerman and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 2000-04-20 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beloved, best-selling author Tony Hillerman and mystery maven Otto Penzler have gathered 100 years' worth of peerless suspense tales into a volume every fan will cherish. In just three annual editions, THE BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES has established itself as a favorite among readers and as the fastest growing of all the Best American series. Now Penzler, BAMS series editor, and Tony Hillerman, whose Leaphorn/Chee novels have won him multiple Edgar Awards and millions of devotees, offer an unparalleled treasury of American suspense fiction. The editors winnowed these fifty-five selections 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, Lawrence Block, Sue Grafton, Elmore Leonard, Sara Paretsky, and more -- but the editors also unearthed gems by luminaries rarely found in suspense anthologies: William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Ring Lardner, Damon Runyon, James Thurber, and Joyce Carol Oates. Nowhere else can readers find a more thorough, more engaging, more essential distillation of American suspense.
Download or read book A Treasury of American Folklore written by B. A. Botkin and published by Globe Pequot Press. This book was released on 2016-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named by the Library of Congress in a 2012 exhibit as among the top "100 Books that Shaped America," this two-volume set contains 500 stories and 100 songs collected from the author's time as national folklore editor for the Federal Writer's Project (1938-39) as well as his work as archivist of folksongs at the Library of Congress. As Carl Sandburg writes in his foreword, "So here we have nothing less than an encyclopedia of the folklore of America. An encyclopedia is where you get up into box car numbers...besides giving you the company of nice, darnfool yarn spinners, it will give you something of the feel of American history, of the gloom chasers that moved many a good man who fought fire and flood, varmints and vermin, as region after region filled with settlers and homesteaders."
Download or read book Myth Magic and Mystery written by Trinkett Clark and published by Roberts Rinehart Pub.. This book was released on 1996 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of works of well-known children's book illustrators such as N.C. Wyeth, Chris Van Allsburg, Maurice Sendak, Dr. Seuss, Edward Gorey, Tomi Ungerer, and others
Download or read book The Best American Mystery Stories 2014 written by Otto Penzler and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of top-selected mystery writing from the past year is culled from a variety of respected sources and offers insight into evolving genre trends.
Download or read book The Best American Mystery Stories 2011 written by Harlan Coben and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2011 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The editors present a collection of the best mystery writing culled from a variety of sources.
Download or read book The Best American Mystery Stories 2002 written by James Ellroy and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes J. C. Oates, M. Connelly, S. M. Kaminsky and more.
Download or read book Best American Mystery Stories 2005 written by Joyce Carol Oates and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2005-09-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together the genre's finest from the past year. With stories from mystery veterans and newly discovered talents, this thrilling collection is sure to appeal to crime fiction fans of all tastes.
Download or read book A Treasury of Royal Scandals written by Michael Farquhar and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-05-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Nero's nagging mother (whom he found especially annoying after taking her as his lover) to Catherine's stable of studs (not of the equine variety), here is a wickedly delightful look at the most scandalous royal doings you never learned about in history class. Gleeful, naughty, sometimes perverted-like so many of the crowned heads themselves-A Treasury of Royal Scandals presents the best (the worst?) of royal misbehavior through the ages. From ancient Rome to Edwardian England, from the lavish rooms of Versailles to the dankest corners of the Bastille, the great royals of Europe have excelled at savage parenting, deadly rivalry, pathological lust, and meeting death with the utmost indignity-or just very bad luck.
Download or read book The Best of the Best American Mystery Stories written by Otto Penzler and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty great whodunnits from the first decade of this series, edited by the award-winning editor and founder of the Mysterious Press. This anthology collects the top twenty stories from the first decade (1997–2006) of The Best American Mystery Stories, selected and introduced by Otto Penzler. Contributors include Russell Banks, Jeffrey Deaver, Louise Erdrich, Brendan DuBois, Dennis Lehane, Elmore Leonard, Lou Manfredo, Ed McBain, Joyce Carol Oates, Scott Turow, and many others.
Download or read book Treasury of American Horror Stories written by Frank D. McSherry and published by Random House Value Publishing. This book was released on 1985 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "51 spine-chilling tales from every state in the Union plus Washington, D.C."--Jacket subtitle.
Download or read book A Treasury of Victorian Murder written by Rick Geary and published by NBM. This book was released on 2002 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a collection of comic strip versions of murders in Great Britain during the Victorian era.
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Download or read book The Best American Mystery Stories 2013 written by Lisa Scottoline and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A best-selling novelist and Edgar Award winner, Lisa Scottoline brings her mastery of the thriller genre as well as her wit and heart to this collection of the must-reads in mysteries.
Download or read book The Best American Mystery Stories 2020 written by C. J. Box and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 annual "treat for crime-fiction fans" (Library Journal).
