The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2021

The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2021

The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2021

The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2021

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Overview

A Wall Street Journal holiday 2021 pick

Suspense Magazine Best Book of the Year

Lee Child selects the twenty best mystery short stories of the year, including tales by Stephen King, Sara Paretsky, and many more.

Under the auspices of New York City's legendary mystery fiction specialty bookstore, The Mysterious Bookshop, and aided by Edgar Award-winning anthologist Otto Penzler, international bestseller Lee Child has selected the twenty most suspenseful, most confounding, and most mysterious short stories from the past year, collected now in one entertaining volume.

Includes stories by:

  • Alison Gaylin
  • David Morrell
  • James Lee Burke
  • Joyce Carol Oates
  • Martin Edwards
  • Sara Paretsky
  • Stephen King
  • Sue Grafton (with a new, posthumously-published work!)

And many more!  


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781613162385
Publisher: Penzler Publishers
Publication date: 09/14/2021
Series: Best Mystery Stories , #1
Pages: 451
Sales rank: 132,558
Product dimensions: 5.30(w) x 8.00(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

About The Author
Lee Child was born on October 29, 1954, in Coventry, England, but spent his formative years in the nearby city of Birmingham. By coincidence he won a scholarship to the same high school that JRR Tolkien had attended. He went to law school in Sheffield, England, and after part-time work in the theater he joined Granada Television in Manchester for what turned out to be an eighteen-year career as a presentation director during British TV’s “golden age.” During his tenure his company made Brideshead Revisited, The Jewel in the Crown, Prime Suspect, and Cracker. But he was fired in 1995 at the age of forty as a result of corporate restructuring. Always a voracious reader, he decided to see an opportunity where others might have seen a crisis and bought six dollars’ worth of paper and pencils and sat down to write a book, Killing Floor, the first in the Jack Reacher series.

Otto Penzler, the creator of American Mystery Classics, is also the founder of The Mysterious Press (1975); MysteriousPress.com (2011), an electronic-book publishing company; and New York City’s Mysterious Bookshop (1979). He has won a Raven, the Ellery Queen Award, two Edgars (for the Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection, 1977, and The Lineup, 2010), and lifetime achievement awards from NoirCon and The Strand Magazine. He has edited more than 70 anthologies and written extensively about mystery fiction.

Hometown:

Birmingham, England

Date of Birth:

1954

Place of Birth:

Coventry, England

Education:

Sheffield University
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