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Entire novels are often written about a single crime, detailing every gruesome, dark detail until the last drop of blood spatters across the page. Yet in this mystery anthology, renowned editor and author Otto Penzler weaves together to heart-stopping effect more than ninety tales of brutality, terror, and unexpected demise, with each story told in a swift one thousand words or less.
These crimes may be fast in both form and fallout, but none lack the dark impulses that too often guide human hands to ill ends. Prepare to be transported into the diabolical schemes of criminal masterminds...into robberies and pranks gone horribly awry...into closets crammed with skeletons...into families bound not by love but wickedness.
Authors include Peter Blauner, Ken Bruen, Rob W. Hart, K. A. Laity, Tasha Alexander, Patricia Abbott, Bruce DeSilva, Chuck Caruso, Gregory Gibson, Joe R. Lansdale, and many more.
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About the Author:
Otto Penzler is a renowned mystery author, editor, publisher, columnist, and bookstore owner. His love for mystery stories inspired him to establish The Mysterious Press, which published only crime and mystery, and eventually led him to found The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City. Today, The Mysterious Bookshop is known as the oldest and largest bookstores solely dedicated to mystery novels. Penzler’s award-winning career includes fourteen years of service on the Board of Directors for the Mystery Writers of America, and he is the recipient of two Edgar Allen Poe Awards, an Ellery Queen Award, and a Raven Award, among others. To date, he has edited more than fifty crime-fiction anthologies. He currently alternates between living in New York City and in Connecticut with his wife.
From Publishers Weekly:
Give Penzler (The Big Book of Ghost Stories) credit for an interesting angle for this anthology of 81 crime stories, each no more than a thousand words. As he notes in his introduction, It is hard to hide clues and have enough reasonable suspects in a total of about four pages, and so there are relatively few whodunits, but plenty of last-paragraph twists. Contributors include such talented mystery writers as Reed Farrel Coleman, Bruce DeSilva, Loren Estleman, Lyndsay Faye, and Steve Hockensmith. But the constraints of the format make many entries little more than amuse-bouches. Estleman, for example, trots out his Nero Wolfean lead, Claudius Lyon, in Wolfe on the Roof, to good effect. While readers who admire his homage to Stout will seek out longer Lyon stories, the puzzle to unravel here is trivial. Ironically, one of the shortest of the short, Christopher Coake's Acknowledgments, a cleverly disguised confession, works best. (Aug.)
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- PublisherBrilliance Audio
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 1501261223
- ISBN 13 9781501261220
- BindingAudio CD
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