Murder at the Racetrack: Original Tales of Mystery and Mayhem Down the Final Stretch from Today's Great Writers - Hardcover

Penzler, Otto

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0892960183 ISBN 13: 9780892960187

Publisher: Mysterious Press, 2006

Synopsis

Lawrence Block, in Keller by a Nose," asks what obsession holds more hazards than betting on the ponies. The answer will surprise you...Max Allan Collins's "That Kind of Nag" proves that it's bad to play the wrong horse, but worse to pick the wrong woman..."The Great, the Good and the Not-So-Good" by H.R.F. Keating warns against old English ladies at the racecourse...Joyce Carol Oates shows how a young woman teams to trust a prize stallion more than her violent lover in "Meadowlands"...and Scott Wolven's "Pinwheel" offers a Japanese lesson in flying horses and honor among thieves."--BOOK JACKET.

About this title

About the Author:

Otto Penzler is the founder of the Mysterious Press and owns the Mysterious Press specialist bookshop in New York.

From Booklist:

Not all of the 13 racetrack mysteries that Penzler has chosen include a murder, and a few of them scarcely include a racetrack. Each contains generous portions of deceit, double-dealing, and treachery, however, and those ingredients will entice readers who like their mysteries down and dirty. In Lorenzo Carcaterra's Runyonesque "Yellow Mama's Long Weekend," a small-time trainer with a weakness for booze and gambling double-crosses a race-fixing mobster and walks away--on unbroken legs--with the score of a lifetime. In Joyce Carol Oates' searing "Meadowlands," a successful horse owner with a secret agenda takes his love-struck girlfriend to the track, where an idyllic afternoon turns suddenly and unimaginably horrific. And in Julie Smith's cleverly plotted "Hotwalker," a former veterinarian whose husband's life was shattered by a hoodlum's violence exacts an ingenious revenge. Not every story is a jewel, but the big majority will fill an idle hour with delicious suspense, and a few, such as Oates' contribution, will stay with readers for a very long time. Dennis Dodge
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About this edition

• Publisher: Mysterious Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0892960183
• ISBN 13: 9780892960187
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 384