The best-selling author Carl Hiaasen takes the reins for the eleventh edition of this series, featuring twenty of the past year's most distinguished tales of mystery, crime, and suspense. Laura Lippman introduces us to a suburban soccer mom who moonlights as a call girl and who has a fateful encounter with a former client at her son's soccer game. Ridley Pearson traces a famous author of horror tales who becomes trapped in a real one after his wife vanishes while jogging. Joyce Carol Oates travels to a New Jersey racetrack ...
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The best-selling author Carl Hiaasen takes the reins for the eleventh edition of this series, featuring twenty of the past year's most distinguished tales of mystery, crime, and suspense. Laura Lippman introduces us to a suburban soccer mom who moonlights as a call girl and who has a fateful encounter with a former client at her son's soccer game. Ridley Pearson traces a famous author of horror tales who becomes trapped in a real one after his wife vanishes while jogging. Joyce Carol Oates travels to a New Jersey racetrack where the animals that break down are of the two-legged type. Lawrence Block tells the story of Keller, a hitman for hire who happens to live in Greenwich Village, loves spicy food, and collects stamps as a hobby. And Scott Wolven plunges us into the world of an ex-con who takes a job at a private and very illegal Nevada racetrack where each day millions are won and lost. Mostly lost. As Carl Hiaasen notes in his introduction, "The stories in this collection would do honor to any anthology of short literature. More than transcending the genre of crime, they blow away its nebulous boundaries." The Best American Mystery Stories 2007 is a powerful collection certain to delight mystery aficionados and all lovers of great fiction.
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Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by author. Signed by Award Winning Series Editor Otto Penzsler, in person. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 326 p. Best American Mystery Stories. Audience: General/trade. Fine in a Fine (Like New) dust jacket; a tight, unread copy in excellent plus condition. First Edition-First Printing with a full number line ending in 1. Signed, along with the quote "Yes-these are really are the best! " on the Title page by award Winning Series Editor Otto Penzler, in person, at an Author event in New York City on December 2, 2014. A photo of Otto during the event will be included. Otto Penzler is the recipient of a number of prestigious Awards including the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Strand Magazine, and An Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America in 2010, to name a few. Rest assured, this collectible copy is well protected in a clear, archival Mylar cover; and will be very carefully packaged with protective material; and will be shipped in a New Box. We always treat all of our books, and book buyers with the utmost respect.
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