The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century
Hillerman, Tony, and Otto Penzler, eds.
Place Published: Boston
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Date Published: 2000
Description: In The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century, prolific author Tony Hillerman changes hats and turns his hand to editing, along with Otto Penzler, who has edited several of the "Best" collections. The list of short story authors in this compilation includes many familiar names, but also some authors not usually thought of as mystery writers. And, of course, they span the 20th Century: O. Henry, Willa Cather, Jacques Futrelle, Frederick Irving Anderson, Melville Davisson Post, Susan Glaspell, Dashiell Hammett, Ring Lardner, Wilbur Daniel Steele, Ben Ray Redman, James M. Cain, John Steinbeck, Damon Runyan, Pearl S. Buck, Raymond Chandler, James Thurber, Cornell Woolrich, William Faulkner, Harry Kemelman, Ellery Queen, John D. MacDonald, Ross Macdonald, Stanley Ellin, Evan Hunter, Margaret Millar, Henry Slesar, Patricia Highsmith, Shirley Jackson, Flannery O'Connor, Jerome Weidman, Joe Gores, Joyce Carol Oates, Stephen King, Jack Ritchie, Lawrence Block, Stephen Greenleaf, Sara Paretsky, Sue Grafton, Donald E. Westlake, James Crumley, Brendan DuBois, Michael Malone, Tom Franklin, and Dennis Lehane.
Binding: Trade PaperbackCondition: Very Good
ISBN: 0-618-01271-0
Book Id: 000128
Price: $20.00