β Scribed by Lee Child; Otto Penzler
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Best-selling novelist Lee Child edits this latest collection of the genreβs finest from the past year. Featuring βgritty tales told with panache,β this is a βmust-read for anybody who cares about crime storiesβ (Booklist).
Starred Review. The 20 short stories in the 14th edition of this "best of" series offer a wider variety than some of its predecessors. Sherlockians who have not yet encountered Lyndsay Faye will be more than pleased by her pastiche, "The Case of Colonel Warburton's Madness," which allows the sleuth to solve the mystery from an armchair. Jay Brandon makes clever use of his research into the history of San Antonio in "A Jury of His Peers," which centers on the Mexican Army's expulsion of all of the city's attorneys in 1842. Lynda Leidiger's "Tell Me" movingly portrays the horrific aftermath of a rape and attempted murder. Doug Alleyn's "An Early Christmas" proves that excellent traditional whodunits, which have been underrepresented in recent years, are still being written. Other contributors include Dennis Lehane, Phillip Margolin, and Jon Land. While this volume contains relatively few household names, the quality certainly doesn't suffer as a result.
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"This collection is sure to please mystery fans as well as those who enjoy short stories"--Library Journal
"The 20 short stories in the 14th edition of this βbest ofβ series offer a wider variety than some of its predecessors...While this volume contains relatively few household names, the quality certainly doesnβt suffer as a result."--Publishers Weekly, STARRED review
"Penzlerβs foreword...in favor of an eclectic mix of tales that exhibit crime in all its varieties in every corner of the worldβand then some."--Kirkus Reviews
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