The Best American Mystery Stories 2015

✍ James Patterson; Otto Penzler 📂 Fiction 📅 2015 🏛 Mariner Books 🌐 English ⚖ 704 KB

In his introduction, guest editor James Patterson observes, “I often hear people lamenting the state of Hollywood . . . If that’s the case, I’ve got one thing to say: read these short stories. You can thank me later.” Patterson has collected a batch of stories that have the sharp tension, drama, and

The Best American Mystery Stories 2015

✍ Patterson, James; Penzler, Otto (editor) 📂 Fiction 📅 2015 🏛 Mariner Books 🌐 English ⚖ 434 KB

In his introduction, guest editor James Patterson observes, “I often hear people lamenting the state of Hollywood . . . If that’s the case, I’ve got one thing to say: read these short stories. You can thank me later.” Patterson has collected a batch of stories that have the sharp tension, drama, and

The Best American Mystery Stories 2015

📂 Standards 📅 2015 🏛 Houghton Mifflin 🌐 English ⚖ 709 KB

In his introduction, guest editor James Patterson observes, “I often hear people lamenting the state of Hollywood... If that’s the case, I’ve got one thing to say: read these short stories. You can thank me later.” Patterson has collected a batch of stories that have the sharp tension, drama, and vi

The Best American Mystery Stories 2006 (The Best American Mystery Stories)

✍ Scott Turow 📂 Fiction 📅 2006 🏛 Mariner Books;Houghton Mifflin Co 🌐 English ⚖ 319 KB 👁 3 views

"[Most of] these stories are portraits, in styles ranging from sly to harrowing, of how crimes occurred ... If you like all your characters living at the end of a story, this may not be the book for you." -- from the introduction by Scott Turow Best-selling author Scott Turow takes the helm for the

The Best American Mystery Stories

✍ Joyce Carol Oates; Otto Penzler 📂 Fiction 📅 2005 🏛 Mariner Books;Houghton Mifflin Co 🌐 English ⚖ 289 KB 👁 3 views

The Best American series has been the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction since 1915. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of periodicals. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the very best twenty or

The Best American Short Stories 2015

✍ Boyle, T C (editor) 📂 Fiction 🏛 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 🌐 English ⚖ 2 MB

In his introduction to this one hundredth volume of the beloved *Best American Short Stories,* guest editor T. C. Boyle writes, "The Model T gave way to the Model A and to the Ferrari and the Prius . . . modernism to postmodernism and post-postmodernism. We advance. We progress. We move on. But we a