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New York: Houghton Mifflin. Very Good. 2001. First Paperback Edition. Soft Cover. 0.97 x 8.28 x 6.48 Inches. 352 pages. The Best American Series. Best-selling author Lawrence Block is one of the mystery genre's most prolific authors, with more than fifty books to his name, including Hit List, published in 2000. Block's selections for The Best American Mystery Stories 2001 include stories by: Jennifer Anderson, Russell Banks, Michael Downs, Leslie Edgerton, William Gay, Jeremiah Healy, Steve Hockensmith, ClarkHoward, Michael Hyde, Dan Leon, Thomas Lynch, David Means, Kent Nelson, Joyce Carol Oates, T. Jefferson Parker, Bill Pronzini, Peter Robinson, Roxana Robinson, John Salter, and Nathan Walpow. .

New York: Houghton and Mifflin. Fine. 2006. Trade Paperback. . 358 pages. The acclaimed author of Presumed Innocent serves as guest editor for this new collection of the outstanding mystery tales of the year, in an anthology that incorporates pieces of short fiction by Elmore Leonard, Ed McBain, James Lee Burke, Joyce Carol Oates, Walter Mosley, and other notable authors. .

New York: Reader's Digest. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1998. Hardcover. 398 pages. Selected from the acclaimed anthologies of mystery and suspense, <I>The Best of Sisters In Crime</I> offers a killer collection of award-winning authors and short stories of felonious, yet feminine, mystery fiction. All award-winning stories and authors featuring: Mary Higgins Clark; Sue Grafton; Sara Paretsky; Sharyn Mccrumb; Elizabeth George. .

New York: Berkley Prime Crime. Very Good. 1999. Mass Market Paperback. Light glass ring mark on front cover . No reading crease. 0.75 x 7 x 4.5 Inches. 224 pages. Prime Crime Mysteries. Rejoice in this delightfully lethal collection of thirteen original Christmas tales written by today's best mystery writers. Whether set in Yorkshire Dales or sun-baked Florida, these short stories are gift-wrapped with mistletoe and murder--all to celebrate the season of Christmas in the spirit of crime... Contributors include: * P.D. James * Simon Brett * Susan Moody * Catherine Aird * Robert Barnard * Liza Cody * Tim Heald * H.R.F. Keating * Peter Lovesey * Mike Seabrook * Nicole Swengley * David Williams * Margaret Yorke .

New York: Mysterious Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 215 pages .

New York: Berkley Prime Crime. Very Good+. 2011. First Trade Edition. Trade Paperback. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 418 pages. Stories by Steve Brewer, Dana Cameron, Max Allan Collins / Mickey Spillane, Barbara D'Amato, Brendan Dubois, Jack Fredrickson, Parnell Hall, Charlaine Harris, Carolyn Hart, S. W. Hubbard, Toni L. P. Kelner, Lou Kemp, Harley Jane Kozak, William Kent Krueger, Margaret Maron, Martin Meyers, Terrie Farley Moran, Jeffrey Somers, Elaine Viets, and Mike Wiecek. .

New York: Berkley Prime Crime. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2003.. First Edition. Hardcover. 385 pages .

New York: Akashic Books. Fine. 2010. Trade Paperback. No spine crease.. 276 pages. Texas enters the Akashic Noir Series arena with a dazzling array of terrifying, well-crafted short fiction. .

New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers. Fine. 2004. Revised Edition. Trade Paperback. 528 pages .

New York: Mysterious Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Small black mark on top of text block . Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Brown boards and darker brown spine imprinted in gold with title and author. Brown endpapers. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. SIGNED by the AUTHOR ( Max Allan Collins); SIGNED by the AUTHOR (Stuart M. Kaminsky) Inscribed, dated, and SIGNED by the AUTHOR (Loren D. Estelman); Inscribed and SIGNED by AUTHOR (John Lutz). . 230 pages. Signed by One Author. Twelve stories featuring private detectives deal with missing persons, death threats, blackmail, and murder .

New York: Dutton. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED by ONE of the AUTHORS, Paul Bishop. Protected in a removable archival cover. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 292 pages. Signed by One Author. A collection of seventeen all-new hard-boiled murder stories, by such authors as Andrew Greeley, Laurence Block, and Mickey Spillane, offers chilling tales of death delivered for cash. .

New York: Gramercy. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 2002. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 384 pages. A great holiday gift for mystery fans, this new short story collection of over thirty Christmas tales of crime contains contributions from some of the best writers of the genre: Patricia Moyes, John D. MacDonald, Rex Stout, Julian Symons, Georges Simenon, Margery Allingham, Lawrence Block, John Mortimer and many others. These holiday tales with a murderous twist include suspicious Santa's helpers; a Christmas pageant player who assumes the role of a killer; and evil elves with malicious intentions. Beware of hanging mistletoe and stuffed stockings <i>this </i>season, as you celebrate a creepy Christmas with <i>Murder Most Merry</i>. .

New York: Berkley Prime Crime. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 294 pages. Features all-new, original stories by: * Lawrence Block * Mary Higgins Clark * Stanley Cohen * Dorothy Salisbury Davis * Mickey Friedman * Joyce Harrington * Judith Kelman * Warren Murphy * Justin Scott * Peter Straub * Whitley Strieber Today's bestselling writers of mystery and suspense join forces in this original collection of ALL-NEW stories. "Renowned authors...any reader will be highly entertained." <P>- <i>Murder Ad Lib</i> Murder on the Run is an intriguing collection of original mysteries by the bestselling and award-winning authors of the Adams Round Table. Now this esteemed and diverse group of writers finds common ground in eleven extraordinary stories of the desperate days and nerve-shattering nights of criminals on the run. .

Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press. Very Good. 1998. Trade Paperback. Edgewear. Full number line 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 . 0.71 x 9.04 x 6.01 Inches. 212 pages. Stories set in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. .

New York: Oxford University Press, USA. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1996. Hardcover. 2.08 x 8.79 x 5.91 Inches. 696 pages. Edgar Allan Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue" launched the detective story in 1841. The genre began as a highbrow form of entertainment, a puzzle to be solved by a rational sifting of clues. In Britain, the stories became decidedly upper crust: the crime often commited in a world of manor homes and formal gardens, the blood on the Persian rug usually blue. But from the beginning, American writers worked important changes on Poe's basic formula, especially in language and locale. And with World War I, the Roaring '20s, the rise of organized crime and corrupt police with Prohibition, and the Great Depression, American detective fiction branched out in all directions, lead by writers such as Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, who brought crime out of the drawing room and into the "mean streets" where it actually occured. In The… Read More

New York: Akashie Books. Very Good. 2011. Trade Paperback. Mild spine crease. 237 pages .

Edison, NJ: Castle Books. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2002. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 586 pages .

Kensington. Near Fine. 2005. Trade Paperback. 1 x 8.2 x 5.5 Inches. 320 pages .

New York: Berkley Books. Very Good. 1993. First Edition Thus. Mass Market Paperback. Crease on front corner. No spine crease. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 1.14 x 7.55 x 4.96 Inches. 317 pages. A collection of mystery stories by noted female authors includes contributions by Mary Higgins Clark, Janet Stockey, Ruth Rendell, Faye Kellerman, Antonia Fraser, Patricia McGerr, Amanda Cross, Dorothy Salisbury Davis, Carolyn Jensen Watts, Celia Fremlin, Joan Hess, Elizabeth A. Dalton, Sara Paretsky, Anne Perry, and B. K. Stevens .

New York: Walker & Company. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Blue boards and spine with title and author imprinted in metallic green. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 262 pages. Collects noteworthy short stories of the past year by prominent mystery and suspense writers .