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PublisherHarperCollins

ISBN-100618812652

ISBN-139780618812653

eBay Product ID (ePID)60202076

Product Key Features

Book TitleBest American Mystery Stories 2007

Number of Pages352 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2007

TopicFantasy / Collections & Anthologies, Mystery & Detective / Collections & Anthologies, Anthologies (Multiple Authors), American / General

GenreFiction, Literary Collections

AuthorCarl Hiaasen, Otto Penzler

Book SeriesBest American Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight11.2 Oz

Item Length8.2 in

Item Width5.5 in

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TitleLeadingThe

Table Of ContentForeword * ix Introduction by Carl Hiaasen * xiii Chris Adrian Stab * 1 Robert Andrews Solomon's Alley * 22 Peter Blauner Going, Going, Gone * 33 Lawrence Block Keller's Double Dribble * 41 John Bond T-Bird * 69 James Lee Burke A Season of Regret * 88 John Dufresne The Timing of Unfelt Smiles * 106 Louise Erdrich Gleason * 121 Jim Fusilli Chellini's Solution * 135 William Gay Where Will You Go When Your SkinCannot Contain You? * 148 Robert Knightly Take the Man's Pay * 162 Laura Lippman One True Love * 173 David Means The Spot * 189 Kent Meyers Rodney Valen's Second Life * 200 Joyce Carol Oates Meadowlands * 218 Jason Ockert Jakob Loomis * 241 Ridley Pearson Queeny * 257 John Sandford Lucy Had a List * 264 Brent Spencer The True History * 287 Scott Wolven Pinwheel * 304 Contributors' Notes * 313 Other Distinguished Mystery Stories of 2006 * 324

SynopsisThe best-selling author Carl Hiaasen takes the reins for the eleventh edition of this series, featuring twenty of the past year's most distinguished tales of mystery, crime, and suspense. Laura Lippman introduces us to a suburban soccer mom who moonlights as a call girl and who has a fateful encounter with a former client at her son's soccer game. Ridley Pearson traces a famous author of horror tales who becomes trapped in a real one after his wife vanishes while jogging. Joyce Carol Oates travels to a New Jersey racetrack where the animals that break down are of the two-legged type. Lawrence Block tells the story of Keller, a hitman for hire who happens to live in Greenwich Village, loves spicy food, and collects stamps as a hobby. And Scott Wolven plunges us into the world of an ex-con who takes a job at a private and very illegal Nevada racetrack where each day millions are won and lost. Mostly lost. As Carl Hiaasen notes in his introduction, "The stories in this collection would do honor to any anthology of short literature. More than transcending the genre of crime, they blow away its nebulous boundaries." The Best American Mystery Stories 2007 is a powerful collection certain to delight mystery aficionados and all lovers of great fiction., Bestselling novelist Hiaasen edits 2007s collection of the finest mystery writing from the past year. Contributors include Lawrence Block, James Lee Burke, John Dufresne, Louise Erdrich, William Gay, and David Means.