Authors: Otto Penzler (Editor), Otto Penzler
ISBN-13: 9780440613589, ISBN-10: 0440613582
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Date Published: March 1999
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Otto Penzler is the proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City. He was publisher of The Armchair Detective, the founder of the Mysterious Press and the Armchair Detective Library, and created the publishing firm Otto Penzler Books. He is a recipient of an Edgar Award for The Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection and the Ellery Queen Award by the Mystery Writers of America for his many contributions to the field. He is the editor of The Vampire Archives and The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps, which was a New York Times bestseller.
From hearts and flowers to erotic obsession, from crimes of passion to the savage gentility of the Victorian gentry, here is love and death in infinite variety, a unique and unprecedented collection of original, never-before-published short mysteries by some of America's bestselling authors. It's the ultimate recipe for love gone wrong, sixteen acclaimed writers - eight men and eight women - offering vastly different perspectives on love, murder, and the opposite sex, in short fiction that proves all great passion lasts a lifetime...however brief that may be.
Penzler suggests that these tales of murder instigated by passion might suit Valentine's Day or wedding anniversaries. Whether that's true or not, these stories, all written for this collection, should appeal to most readers. Authors include Bobbie Ann Mason, Anne Perry, Ed McBain, and William Caunitz.
Introduction | 1 | |
Dying Time | 7 | |
For Whom the Beep Tolls | 25 | |
Definitely, A Crime of Passion | 43 | |
Hot Springs | 77 | |
The Loving You Get | 101 | |
The Stalker | 121 | |
The Things We Do for Love | 139 | |
Karen Makes Out | 157 | |
Red Clay | 179 | |
Nancy Drew Remembers (A Parody) | 203 | |
Running from Legs | 229 | |
At the Paradise Motel, Sparks, Nevada | 261 | |
Heartbreak House | 279 | |
The Blackmailer | 299 | |
For What She Had Done | 317 | |
True Crime | 323 |