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The Best British Mysteries 2005 »

Authors: Maxim Jakubowski
ISBN-13: 9780749083366, ISBN-10: 0749083360
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Allison & Busby, Limited
Date Published: April 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Maxim Jakubowski

Maxim Jakubowski is a crime critic for the Guardian, a novelist, and the literary director of Crime Scene, a festival held annually at London’s National Film Theatre. A regular broadcaster on radio and TV, Maxim runs one of the largest crime bookstores worldwide, which is situated in London.

Book Synopsis

A worldwide runaway success now available in paperback!

Publishers Weekly

The Best British Mysteries, an anthology edited by Maxim Jakubowski, collects 25 outstanding short crime stories published in 2002. Many of the authors among them, Ian Rankin, Val McDermid, Anne Perry, Bill James and Peter Lovesey will be familiar to American readers. (Mar.) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

	Introduction	9
	Tell Me Who to Kill	11
	Geezers	31
	Rumpole and the Scales of Justice	43
	School Gate Mums	71
	The Cairo Road	85
	Esther Gordon Framlingham	93
	No One Can Hear You Scream	103
	Chance	119
	Something Spooky on Geophys	133
	Tails	143
	The St. Valentine's Day Massacre	163
	The Field	175
	Turning it Round	187
	Closer to the Flame	193
	Best Eaten Cold	209
	The Game of Dog	215
	American Waitress	231
	Caveat Emptor	245
	The Sitting Tenant	261
	The Consolation Blonde	271
	Dancing Towards the Blade	281
	Indicator	297
	Shadow on the Water	317
	Murder by Ghost	325
	Room to Move	345
	Like an Arrangement	351
	Majumdar Uncle	361
	The Double Crossing	371
	Acknowledgments	381