The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2023

✍ Scribed by Amor Towles

• Book ID: 115029782
• Publisher: Penzler Publishers
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 376 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781613164501

✦ Synopsis

Amor Towles selects the best mystery short stories of the year, including tales by Andrew Child, Jeffery Deaver, and T.C. Boyle.

In his introduction to this volume, guest editor Amor Towles pays tribute to the forgotten person of the mystery story--the cadaver. "Male or female, old or young, rich or poor," he writes, "for over a hundred years the cadaver has been accommodating, gracious, and generally on time. There is no other figure in crime who has proven to be more reliable."

Like the cadaver, this anthology series, now in its third year of publication, is also proving reliable, bringing to readers the finest mystery/crime/suspense stories of the year from a variety of sources including mystery and general interest magazines, anthologies, online publications, and literary periodicals.

Among the treasures collected herein are Jeffery Deaver's "Dodge," in which a chess match between a volatile woman and a U.S....