The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories: Fourth Annual Collection [Paperback]

Ed Gorman (Editor), Martin H. Greenberg (Editor), Martin Greenberg (Author)

Book Description

Series: World's Finest Mystery & Crime Stories | Publication Date: August 1, 2003

More than 200,000 words of the best mystery and suspense fiction from around the world

The world's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories

Each year, editors Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg cast their net far and wide, across the seas, throughout the world to catch the best-the most suspenseful, most original, intriguing, confounding, downright entertaining stories of crime and mystery. Edgar winners from the U.S., Silver Dagger winners from the U.K., and stories from elsewhere as well come together here in a bountiful crop of great stories by the best in the business, including Lawrence Block - Jon L. Breen - Stanley Cohen - Bill Crider - Jeffery Deaver - Jeremiah Healy - Clark Howard - Susan Isaacs - John Lutz - Sharyn McCrumb - Ralph McInerny - Anne Perry - Bill Pronzini - Donald E. Westlake and many others.

This book's a killer!

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Editors Gorman and Greenberg serve up an impressive compendium of 42 short stories culled from magazines, newspapers and anthologies published last year. The 11 non-English entries tend to disappoint, with the notable exception of German writer Stephan Rykena's "Cold-Blooded," a clever tale about a determined refugee. Familiar names among the English contributors include Val McDermid, who spins a wry story of revenge in "The Wagon Mound," and Ralph McInerney, who plumbs human nature in his brilliant "The Devil That Walks at Noonday." Anne Perry, Gillian Linscott and Carole Nelson Douglas employ Shakespearean themes, while Sharyn McCrumb, Jon L. Breen and Daniel Stashower utilize Sherlockian material. Susan Isaac offers practically the only story with a light touch, "My Cousin Rachel's Uncle Murray." Mike Doogan turns Dashiell Hammett into a sleuth in "War Can Be Murder," while Lillian Stewart Carl's "A Mimicry of Mockingbirds" does the same for Thomas Jefferson. Essays assessing the state of the mystery in 2002 in the U.S., Britain, Canada and Germany provide both insights and plenty of suggestions for further reading pleasure. This is an entertaining and valuable guide to a strong and diverse genre.
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Review

"Something for every mystery taste. An excellent value for the money."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

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Product Details

• Paperback: 640 pages
• Publisher: Forge Books; First Edition edition (August 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0765308495
• ISBN-13: 978-0765308498
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,347,949 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

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In her series of crime stories Gesine Schulz writes about the (not always clean) cases of Karo Rutkowsky, out-of-work teacher, moonlighting cleaning lady and chronically cash-strapped private detective.
In translation, one of these stories, "The Panama Hen", was included in "The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, Fourth Annual Collection", edited by Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg; this story and other stories are also available as Kindle eBooks.

"Privatdetektivin Billie Pinkernell" is the young detective of her German children's mystery series. Billie solves cases in the small town of Rabenstein, where she inherited an old villa from her great-great-aunt Malwine.

After spending more than a decade living abroad, mostly in New York, but also in South America, Ireland, and Switzerland, nowadays Gesine Schulz divides her time between Essen/Germany and West Cork/Ireland, the setting of her well-loved book "Eine Tuete gruener Wind" (and, incidentally, of "The Growing Summer"/"The Magic Summer" by Noel Streatfeild).

Gesine Schulz is a past president of "Moerderische Schwestern" (formerly: Sisters in Crime, German Chapter) and is currently working on a crime novel.

www.billie-pinkernell.de
www.gesineschulz.com

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This review is from: The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories: Fourth Annual Collection (Paperback)

These really are the world's finest mystery and crime stories! I have collections 1-5 and these are the best collections of short mystery fiction I've come across. Filled with stories by some of the best writers in the business you can't go wrong with these anthologies.