The Mysterious Press Anniversary Anthology; Celebrating 25 Years
The Editors of Mysterious Press
From Christopher Morrow, Bookseller, Port St. Lucie, FL, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller Since March 4, 2011
From Christopher Morrow, Bookseller, Port St. Lucie, FL, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller Since March 4, 2011
About this Item
357pp. Small 8vo. Quarter bound paper and cloth over boards, stamped spine and front boards. Book is a stated first edition with a number line starting with 1. Book is unread, unmarked, unclipped, tight, bright, and jacket has an archival Brodart protector. Introduction by Ann Freed and William Molloy; Forword by Otto Penzler; 18 specially commissioned stories by M. C. Beaton, Charlotte Carter, Jerome Charyn, James Crumley, Lindsay Davis, Loren D. Estleman, Joe Gores, Robert Greer, Stuart M. Kaminsky, Joe R. Lansdale, Peter Lovesey, Margaret Maron, William Marshall, Archer Mayor, Ed McBain, Marcia Muller, Beth Saulnier, and Donald Westlake. Seller Inventory # 0003895
Bibliographic Details
Title: The Mysterious Press Anniversary Anthology; ...
Publisher: Mysterious Press, New York
Publication Date: 2001
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: fine
Edition: First edition. First Printing.
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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