About this Item
-----The scan you see is the book you get. Quarter bound in black cloth grey boards with white lettering on spine, headband, xx + 357 pages, Near Fine condition, dust jacket is in Near Fine condition. Contents include: Intro by Sara Ann Freed & William Malloy / Foreword by Otto Penzler / (with intro to each individual stories) / What's in a Name? by Margaret Maron / Instinct by Archer Mayor / Countess Kathleen by Jerome Charyn / Sometimes Something Goes Wrong by Stuart M. Kaminsky / Activity in the Flood Plain by Ed McBain / The Impostor by Marcia Muller / Coming Around the Mountain by James Crumley / Handle with Care by M. C. Beaton / The Mule Rustlers by Joe R. Lansdale / Body Zone by Lindsey Davis / Revision by Robert Greer / Birdbath by Charlotte Carter / High Maintenance by Beth Saulnier / THEM! by William Marshall / The Usual Table by Peter Lovesey / Inscrutable by Joe Gores / The Anniversary Waltz by Loren d. Estleman / Come Agin? by Donald E. Westlake. Check out the scans. Seller Inventory # 009275
Bibliographic Details
Title: The Mysterious Press Anniversary Anthology: ...
Publisher: Mysterious Press, New York
Publication Date: 2001
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near 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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