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The best mystery stories of the year 2023 / edited with an introduction by Amor Towles ; foreword by Otto Penzler, series editor.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Mysterious Bookshop presentsPublisher: New York : The Mysterious Press, [2023]Copyright date: ©2023Edition: First editionDescription: xxii, 523 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781613164488
  • 1613164483
  • 9781613164495
  • 1613164491
Other title:
  • Mysterious Bookshop presents the best mystery stories of the year 2023
Contained works:
  • Allyn, Douglas. Blind baseball
  • Belanger, Derrick, 1975- Adventure of the misquoted Macbeth
  • Boyle, T. Coraghessan. Princess
  • Chase, Joslyn. Cold hands, warm heart
  • Child, Andrew, 1968- New kid in town
  • Clark, Aaron Philip. Death at the Sundial Motel
  • Deaver, Jeffery. Dodge
  • DuBois, Brendan. Landscaper's wife
  • Hammond, Kerry. Strangers at a table
  • Kreuiter, Victor. Miller and Bell
  • Krugler, David F., 1969- Two sharks walk into a bar
  • Larsen, Tom. Pobre Maria
  • Lavinksy, Avram. Playing God
  • Lewis, Jessi. Ears
  • Lister, Ashley. Smoking gunners
  • McCluskey, Sean. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Wednesday
  • Mallory, Michael Allan. What the cat dragged in
  • Manfredo, Lou. Sundown
  • Reed, Annie. Promise
  • Round, Anna. Glass
  • Walker, Joseph S. (Author). Crime scene
  • Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937. Bottle of Perrier
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Foreword / Otto Penzler -- Introduction / Amor Towles -- Blind baseball / Doug Allyn -- Adventure of the misquoted Macbeth / Derrick Belanger -- Princess / T. C. Boyle -- Cold hands, warm heart / Joslyn Chase -- New kid in town / Andrew Child -- Death at the Sundial Motel / Aaron Philip Clark -- Dodge / Jeffery Deaver -- Landscaper's wife / Brendan DuBois -- Strangers at a table / Kerry Hammond -- Miller and Bell / Victor Kreuiter -- Two sharks walk into a bar / David Krugler -- Pobre Maria / Tom Larsen -- Playing God / Avram Lavinksy -- Ears / Jessi Lewis -- Smoking gunners / Ashley Lister -- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Wednesday / Sean Mccluskey -- What the cat dragged in / Michael Allan Mallory -- Sundown / Lou Manfredo -- Promise / Annie Reed -- Glass / Anna Round -- Crime scene / Joseph S. Walker -- Bottle of Perrier / Edith Wharton.
Summary: "Amor Towles selects the best mystery short stories of the year 2023, including tales by Andrew Child, Jeffrey Deaver, and T.C. Boyle"-- Provided by publisher.
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Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Mystery New PENZLER, OTTO Checked out 05/28/2024 33111011189905
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

In his introduction to this volume, guest editor Amor Towles pays tribute to the forgotten person of the mystery story--the cadaver. "Male or female, old or young, rich or poor," he writes, "for over a hundred years the cadaver has been accommodating, gracious, and generally on time. There is no other figure in crime who has proven to be more reliable."



Like the cadaver, this anthology series, now in its third year of publication, is also proving reliable, bringing to readers the finest mystery/crime/suspense stories of the year from a variety of sources including mystery and general interest magazines, anthologies, online publications, and literary periodicals.



Among the treasures collected herein are Jeffery Deaver's "Dodge," in which a chess match between a volatile woman and a U.S. marshal takes a surprise twist; "The Landscaper's Wife," a suspense-filled tale by Brendan DuBois that explodes all expectation; and Kerry Hammond's "Strangers at a Table," which offers a darkly witty homage to Agatha Christie's Miss Marple.



The collection contains well-known authors such as T.C. Boyle and up-and-comers such as Jessi Lewis; it features tales with famous crime-fighters (Jack Reacher and Sherlock Holmes) and a bonus story from the annals of mystery history by Edith Wharton. In short, these pages promise something for every reader of crime fiction, no matter the particularities of his or her taste.

At head of title: The Mysterious Bookshop presents.

"Amor Towles selects the best mystery short stories of the year 2023, including tales by Andrew Child, Jeffrey Deaver, and T.C. Boyle"-- Provided by publisher.

Foreword / Otto Penzler -- Introduction / Amor Towles -- Blind baseball / Doug Allyn -- Adventure of the misquoted Macbeth / Derrick Belanger -- Princess / T. C. Boyle -- Cold hands, warm heart / Joslyn Chase -- New kid in town / Andrew Child -- Death at the Sundial Motel / Aaron Philip Clark -- Dodge / Jeffery Deaver -- Landscaper's wife / Brendan DuBois -- Strangers at a table / Kerry Hammond -- Miller and Bell / Victor Kreuiter -- Two sharks walk into a bar / David Krugler -- Pobre Maria / Tom Larsen -- Playing God / Avram Lavinksy -- Ears / Jessi Lewis -- Smoking gunners / Ashley Lister -- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Wednesday / Sean Mccluskey -- What the cat dragged in / Michael Allan Mallory -- Sundown / Lou Manfredo -- Promise / Annie Reed -- Glass / Anna Round -- Crime scene / Joseph S. Walker -- Bottle of Perrier / Edith Wharton.

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