The Mysterious Press Anniversary Anthology : Celebrating 25 Years
From Arundel Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller Since April 17, 1997
From Arundel Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller Since April 17, 1997
About this Item
First Edition, First Printing with a complete numberline. Signed by Joe R. Lansdale on pp. 251. Some scratches on dust jacket. Otherwise, a Fine copy in a Near Fine dust jacket. Seller Inventory # 627152
Bibliographic Details
Title: The Mysterious Press Anniversary Anthology :...
Publisher: Mysterious Press
Publication Date: 2001
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: First Edition.
About this title
Ed McBain's "Activity in the Flood Plain" tells the story of an artist and the Puerto Rican girl he painted until a delicatessen owner took her away to live in Israel, and then the lovely Connecticut woman who falls for him but battles his desire for a new studio to be built onto his house--with shocking results.
Joe Gores tells of the dilemma of the Chinese grocer who must run a gambling game to pay off a debt but is warned by a Mafia hit man that he must stop the game or die, and the members of Dan Kearny Associates who devise a plan to save his life. James Crumley's poignant tale is about a former whore who buys a second-hand wedding gown, "never used," and waits for the man who has promised to marry her--"after the next job." Donald E. Westlake's story of a reporter, a mad woman, and a young beauty apparently returned from the dead is even funnier and weirder than usual. Lindsey Davis provides a contemporary tale of detection, eschewing her usual ancient Rome for this collection.
Peter Lovesey is in the collection, and so are Loren D. Estleman, Marcia Muller, Jerome Charyn (with a fine Isaac Sidel story), recent Edgar-winner Joe R. Lansdale, Stuart M. Kaminsky, Archer Mayor, Robert Greer, Margaret Maron, M.C. Beaton, Charlotte Carter, and Beth Saulnier.
It's a splendid lineup, and a fitting tribute to a publishing enterprise that has continued to flourish as part of Warner Books. --Otto Penzler
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