Otto Penzler

Golden Age Bibliomysteries (An American Mystery Classic) (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In these classic mystery tales, literature is a matter of life or death

Of crime fiction's many sub-genres, none is so reflexive and so intriguing as the bibliomystery: stories that involve crimes set, somehow, in the world of books.

In Vincent Starrett's A Volume of Poe, a bookseller is murdered; in Ellery Queen's The Adventure of the Three R's, the detective tracks the disappearance of a local Missouri author; and a killer stalks the stacks of the New York Public Library in Robert L. Blochman's Death Walks in Marble Halls.

With fourteen tales of bibliophilic transgression from the Golden Age of the mystery genre (the decades between the two World Wars), this volume collects stories guaranteed to entertain, featuring work from well-remembered authors such as Cornell Woolrich and Anthony Boucher and from those that are lesser-known today, such as Carolyn Wells and James Gould Cozzens.

Edgar Award-winning anthologist, editor, bookseller, and mystery scholar Otto Penzler has focused extensively on the history of the bibliomystery, and his expertise shines in this enjoyable collectionboth in the selection of stories, and in the informative and illuminating introductions that accompany each one.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penzler Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781613164228
• Artikelnr.: 66216060

Autorenporträt

Otto Penzler, the creator of American Mystery Classics, is also the founder of The Mysterious Press (1975); MysteriousPress.com (2011), an electronic-book publishing company; and New York City's Mysterious Bookshop (1979). He has won a Raven, the Ellery Queen Award, two Edgars (for the Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection, 1977, and The Lineup, 2010), and lifetime achievement awards from NoirCon and The Strand Magazine. He has edited more than 70 anthologies and written extensively about mystery fiction.