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About This Book
ISBN13: 9780618517473 |
Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
Best-selling author Scott Turow takes the helm for the tenth edition of this annual, featuring twenty-one of the past year\'s most distinguished tales of mystery, crime, and suspense.
Elmore Leonard tells the tale of a young woman who\'s fled home with a convicted bank robber. Walter Mosley describes an over-the-hill private detective and his new client, a woman named Karma. C. J. Box explores the fate of two Czech immigrants stranded by the side of the road in Yellowstone Park. Ed McBain begins his story on role-playing with the line \"\'Why don\'t we kill somebody?\' she suggested.\" Wendy Hornsby tells of a wild motorcycle chase through the canyons outside Las Vegas. Laura Lippman describes the \"Crack Cocaine Diet.\" And James Lee Burke writes of a young boy who may have been a close friend of Bugsy Siegel.
As Scott Turow notes in his introduction, these stories are \"about crime — its commission, its aftermath, its anxieties, its effect on character.\" The Best American Mystery Stories 2006 is a powerful collection for all readers who enjoy fiction that deals with the extremes of human passion and its dark consequences.'
Review:
Synopsis:
Synopsis:
Mystery Stories 2006, edited by Scott Turow; The Best American Sports
Writing 2006, edited by Michael Lewis; and The Best American Short Stories
2006, edited by Ann Patchett.'
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About the Author
Table of Contents
Introduction by Scott Turow • xiv
Karen E. Bender
Theft • 1
C. J. Box
Pirates of Yellowstone • 18
James Lee Burke
Why Bugsy Siegel Was a Friend of Mine • 31
Jeffery Deaver
Born Bad • 45
Jane Haddam
Edelweiss • 63
William Harrison
Texas Heat • 81
Alan Heathcock
Peacekeeper • 93
Emory Holmes II
A.k.a., Moises Rockafella • 112
Wendy Hornsby
Dust Up • 129
Andrew Klavan
Her Lord and Master • 144
Elmore Leonard
Louly and Pretty Boy • 154
Laura Lippman
The Crack Cocaine Diet (Or: How to Lose a Lot of Weight and Change Your
Life in Just One Weekend) • 169
Ed McBain
Improvisation • 180
Mike MacLean
McHenry's Gift • 197
Walter Mosley
Karma • 205
Joyce Carol Oates
So Help Me God • 240
Sue Pike
A Temporary Crown • 266
Emily Raboteau
Smile • 278
R. T. Smith
Ina Grove • 281
Jeff Somers
Ringing the Changes • 309
Scott Wolven
Vigilance • 320
Contributors' Notes • 345
Other Distinguished Mystery Stories of 2005 • 356\n
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780618517473
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Author:
- Author:
- Author:
- Author:
- Editor:
- Penzler, Otto
- Editor:
- Turow, Scott
- Location:
- Boston
- Subject:
- General
- Subject:
- Mystery & Detective - Anthologies
- Subject:
- Mystery & Detective - Short Stories
- Subject:
- Detective and mystery stories, American
- Copyright:
- 2006
- Edition Description:
- 2006 Paperback
- Series:
- The Best American Series (TM)
- Series Volume:
- Three-Volume Boxed S
- Publication Date:
- October 2006
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Grade Level:
- General/trade
- Language:
- English
- Pages:
- 358
- Dimensions:
- 822x554x106 83










