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Anthologies are shelved alphabetically by title.
Please consult the online catalog or check with a librarian to verify location and availability.
Please consult the online catalog or check with a librarian to verify location and availability.
- Best American Mystery Stories of the Century
- A collection of the very best in mystery writing includes contributions by O. Henry, Dashiell Hammett, Ring Lardner, Ernest Hemingway, Ellery Queen, James Thurber, Sue Graft, Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, Sara Paretsky, John Steinbeck, Mickey Spillane and many others.
- Confederacy of Crime
- In a chilling anthology of never before published stories, twelve popular authors – including Jeffrey Deaver, Bret Lott, Margaret Maron, Joan Hess, Michael Malone, Julie Smith, and Thomas H. Cook, among others – offer a revealing glimpse of crime, mystery, murder, and mayhem, Southern style.
- Dangerous Women
- A collection of short tales about dangerous women, written by top suspense authors, including pieces by Nelson DeMille, J.A. Jance, and Elmore Leonard.
- Death Cruise: Crime Stories on the Open Seas
- This collection includes stories by Agatha Christie, Nancy Pickard, John Lutz, Piet Teigeler, Barbara Collins, Jan Burke, and John Mortimer.
- Death by Dickens
- A new anthology of original mystery stories celebrates the work of Charles Dickens by bringing in some of his most famous characters, with contributions by Bill Crider, P.N. Elrod, Carole Nelson Douglas, Peter Tremayne, Anne Perry, Gillian Linscott, and others.
- Death Dines at 8:30
- Sixteen acclaimed mystery writers – including Diane Mott Davidson, Tamar Myers, Edward Hoch, Mike Resnick, Valerie Wolzien, Claudia Bishop, and Bill and Judy Crider – serve up a tempting array of suspenseful whodunits, in an anthology that comes complete with a variety of original recipes.
- First Cases: First Appearances of Classic Private Eyes
- A unique anthology presents the debuts of fifteen top private investigators, including Lawrence Block's Matthew Scudder,. Sara Paretsky's' V.I. Warshawski, and Sue Grafton's Kinsey Milhone.
- Love and Death
- Romance and mystery combine in a Valentine's Day anthology of fourteen original whodunits from Dorothy Cannell, Carolyn Hart, Nancy Pickard, Gar Anthony Haywood, Peter Robinson, Eve Sandstrom, Ed Gorman, Margaret Maron, Jean Hager, Robert J. Randisi, M.D. Lake, Susan Dunlap, Marilyn Wallace, and Kathy Hoban Trocheck.
- Love Kills
- The rage of jilted lovers and their acts of hate are captured in this suspenseful collection of chilling tales, including works by Lawrence Block, Donald Westlake, Evan Hunter, Bill Pronzini, Marcia Muller, John Lutz, Joe Gores, and Ruth Rendell.
- Master's Choice: Mystery Stories by Today's Top Writers and the Masters Who Inspired Them
- A collection of crime fiction by leading contemporary authors includes short stories from the acclaimed writers who inspired them and features works by Ian Ranking, Joyce Carol Oates, Mary Higgins Clark, Evan Hunter, and Edgar Allan Poe.
- Mom, Apple Pie, and Murder
- An entertaining assortment of short fiction for Mother's Day features mystery tales with a maternal twist, from Nancy Pickard, Joan Hess, Lia Matera, Margaret Maron, Susan Dunlap, Ed Gorman, Jeremiah Healy, Gillian Roberts, and other notable authors.
- Murder and Mystery in Boston
- This collection of murder mysteries, all set in Boston, features works by Robert B. Parker, George V. Higgins, Jacques Futrelle, Charlotte MacLeod, Ed Hoch, and others.
- Murderer's Row: Baseball Mysteries
- Lawrence Block, John Lescroart, and Elmore Leonard share stories about the mysterious deaths of coaches and players, agents and baseball dads in complex situations, and players who exhibit less than gentlemanly behaviors.
- Murderous Schemes: An Anthology of Classic Detective Stories
- Spanning more than fifty years of detective fiction and a variety of styles from hard-boiled to "cozy," a collection of thirty-two classic crime stories is arranged according to eight common plots of detective fiction.
- Mystery Midrash: An Anthology of Jewish Mystery & Detective Fiction
- Thirteen stories with Jewish themes span the spectrum of the American Jewish experience, from secular to orthodox.
- The Night Awakens
- Mystery with a dash of romance enliven these stories by some of the best writers in the business, including Sarah Shankman, Nancy Pickard, Loren D. Estleman, Sally Gunning, and Jospeh Hansen.
- Shades of Black: Crime and Mystery Stories by African-American Authors
- Presents a collection of crime and mystery stories by such authors as Chris Benson, Evelyn Coleman, Walter Mosely, Hugh Holton, and Penny Mickelbury.
- Treasury of Cat Mysteries
- Some of the best feline-starring whodunits comprise this collection of works by such writers as Lillian Jackson Braun, Ruth Rendell, Ed Gorman, Clark Howard, and Carole Nelson Douglas.
- A Woman's Eye
- A collection of stories about crime solving women includes works by Amanda Cross, Sue Grafton, Susan Dunlap, Faye Kellerman, Antonia Fraser, and Sara Paretsky.
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