30 CRIME AND MYSTERY STORIES GOOD TO THE LAST LINE The McGuffin has long been a staple tool in any crime and mystery writer's arsenal. A perfectly placed last line of a short story can pull together subtle plot threads into a devastating d???nouement or give everything that came before it a brand-new meaning, sometimes even reshaping the story entirely for the reader. Joe Gores and Bill Pronzini, two of the most talented mystery writers of the 20th century, joined forces to assemble the very best McGuffin stories by such ...
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30 CRIME AND MYSTERY STORIES GOOD TO THE LAST LINE The McGuffin has long been a staple tool in any crime and mystery writer's arsenal. A perfectly placed last line of a short story can pull together subtle plot threads into a devastating d???nouement or give everything that came before it a brand-new meaning, sometimes even reshaping the story entirely for the reader. Joe Gores and Bill Pronzini, two of the most talented mystery writers of the 20th century, joined forces to assemble the very best McGuffin stories by such celebrated authors as Anthony Boucher, Harlan Ellison, Joe L. Hensley, Edward D. Hoch, John Lutz, John D. MacDonald, and Donald E. Westlake. They, along with 24 more authors, have created some of the very best mystery stories that often save their best twists for the very last line...
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Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket. 0385114168. Signed, "For Art Hackathorn---my first anthology and one of the best, I think. Hope you enjoy the stories, Bill Pronzini." Top corners bumped, and the dust jacket is slightly creased at the corners and spine. Pulp and contemporary stories centered around what Hitchcock called the MacGuffin.; 243 pages; Signed by Editor.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 8x5x1; Signed by the editor Pronzini on the front free end paper. Crisp, unread, unmarked copy. The binding is tight, corners sharp. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. First Edition so stated.
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Very good in good dust jacket. First edition first printing of this collection of thirty short stories by various authors. Very light foxing to the top edge of the book. The dustjacket's spine is sun faded. Light remainder spray to the base of the book... 243 p. Audience: General/trade.