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The Best American Mystery Stories 2004 Paperback - 2004
by Otto Penzler; Nelson DeMille
This volume brings together the genre's finest from the past year. With stories from mystery veterans and newly discovered talents, this thrilling collection is sure to appeal to crime fiction fans of all tastes.
Summary
Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred outstanding works. That selection is pared down to twenty or so very best pieces by a guest editor who is widely recognized as a leading writer in his or her field. This unique system has helped make the Best American series the most respected and most popular of its kind.
Assembled by best-selling suspense author Nelson DeMille, The Best American Mystery Stories 2004 contains a spectacular array of stories by mystery veterans and talented newcomers. Follow a chain reaction that saves a woman’s life, visit a house haunted by a husband’s violent killing spree, enter the high-stakes world of Las Vegas gambling, watch the line between reality and dream blur, travel with a bored salesman driven to crime, and much more. Encompassing all aspects of the genre, this year’s selections are sure to quicken pulses, send chills down the spine, and keep readers continually guessing.
Assembled by best-selling suspense author Nelson DeMille, The Best American Mystery Stories 2004 contains a spectacular array of stories by mystery veterans and talented newcomers. Follow a chain reaction that saves a woman’s life, visit a house haunted by a husband’s violent killing spree, enter the high-stakes world of Las Vegas gambling, watch the line between reality and dream blur, travel with a bored salesman driven to crime, and much more. Encompassing all aspects of the genre, this year’s selections are sure to quicken pulses, send chills down the spine, and keep readers continually guessing.
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- Title The Best American Mystery Stories 2004
- Author Otto Penzler; Nelson DeMille
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First THUS
- Pages 432
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Mariner Books, Boston
- Date 2004-10-14
- ISBN 9780618329670 / 0618329676
- Weight 1.11 lbs (0.50 kg)
- Dimensions 8.2 x 5.46 x 1.14 in (20.83 x 13.87 x 2.90 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Mystery fiction, Detective and mystery stories
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98641601
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- Booklist, 09/15/2004, Page 211
- Library Journal, 06/01/2004, Page 109
- Publishers Weekly, 08/30/2004, Page 35
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