The Best American Mystery Stories 2010 (The Best American Series ®) (Paperback)

By Otto Penzler (Editor), Lee Child

Mariner Books, 9780547237466, 416pp.

Publication Date: October 5, 2010

Other Editions of This Title:
Paperback (10/10/2003)
Paperback (10/8/2008)
Paperback (10/10/2007)
Paperback (10/14/2004)
Paperback (10/30/1998)
Paperback (10/10/2001)
Paperback (10/11/2006)
Paperback (10/19/2000)
Paperback (10/2/2012)
Paperback (10/7/2014)
Hardcover (10/14/2004)
Compact Disc (10/1/2004)
Hardcover (10/7/2014)

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Description

Best-selling novelist Lee Child edits this latest collection of the genre’s finest from the past year. Featuring “gritty tales told with panache,” this is a “must-read for anybody who cares about crime stories” (Booklist).


About the Author

OTTO PENZLER is a renowned mystery editor, publisher, columnist, and owner of New York’s The Mysterious Bookshop, the oldest and largest bookstore solely dedicated to mystery fiction. He has edited more than fifty crime-fiction anthologies. He lives in New York.


LEE CHILD is the author of thirteen Jack Reacher thrillers, including the New York Times bestsellers Persuader, The Enemy, One Shot, The Hard Way, and #1 bestsellers Bad Luck and Trouble and Nothing to Lose. All his titles have been optioned for major motion pictures. 
 


Praise For The Best American Mystery Stories 2010 (The Best American Series ®)…

"This collection is sure to please mystery fans as well as those who enjoy short stories"--Library Journal
"The 20 short stories in the 14th edition of this “best of” series offer a wider variety than some of its predecessors...While this volume contains relatively few household names, the quality certainly doesn’t suffer as a result."--Publishers Weekly, STARRED review 
"Penzler’s foreword...in favor of an eclectic mix of tales that exhibit crime in all its varieties in every corner of the world—and then some."--Kirkus Reviews