First Edition. 8vo, publisher's original black paper covered boards lettered in silver on the spine, and in the pictorially illustrated dustjacket. 357 pp. A very fine copy. FIRST EDITION. The stories collected here are enormously diverse. Some are traditional detective stories, others are crime tales that have become increasingly popular in recent times. Including stories from such masters of the genre as Jonathan Kellerman and Andrew Klavan, Brad Watson, Joyce Carol Oates and Michael Malone.

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Title: THE BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES 1997. Edited and with an Introduction by Robert B. Parker.
Publisher: New York Houghton Mifflin Company 1997
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Buddenbrooks has one of the finest selections of fine and rare books in several fields and we invite you to visit us at our new premises in Newburyport, Massachusetts where have an open "brick and mortar" bookshop. We are also available to meet with clients in Boston by appointment only, where we have maintained a presence for over 40 years. We offer a search service for any books, old or new, which you may have been unable to find. Please call for further information, we look forward to hearing from you.

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Buddenbrooks, Inc. ABAA
21 Pleasant Street, Newburyport, MA, 01950, U.S.A.

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attention of Martin Weinkle or Stephen Pepple.

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