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published
October 10th 2007
by Houghton Mifflin
binding
Paperback, 320 pages
isbn
0618812652
(isbn13: 9780618812653)
description
The Best American Mystery Stories is consistently a great success--we have out 30,000 copies of the 2006 paperback edition after just one month on the...more
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Read in January, 2009
A surprisingly excellent collection! There are familiar names from both the mystery and fiction genres (Louise Ehrdrich, Joyce Carol Oates, James Lee Burke) and unknowns, but the stories ae uniformly terrific. Highly recommended. I am not a big mystery fan, but this one really got me interested in the genre.
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Read in February, 2008
I am a huge fan of short stories anthologies, i get three or four short story collections a year, but after gobbling them all up quickly, i turned to this mystery collection, which i saw on book store shelved but always passed them up, i bought it and gave it a try...
A lot of these stories involve horse racing tracks, and most of them take place in florida. It's good pulp reading if that's your thang. Of course i am scouring these anthologies for screenplay ideas. But none of these w...more
A lot of these stories involve horse racing tracks, and most of them take place in florida. It's good pulp reading if that's your thang. Of course i am scouring these anthologies for screenplay ideas. But none of these w...more
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Read in April, 2008
This well written collection of short stories include tales of murder, rape, blackmail, sociopaths, kidnapping, deception and betrayal. Stories unfold through the eyes of the victims, accomplices, children, innocent bystanders and the murderers themselves. Because of the variety of characters, each story comes off as unique and fresh.
It's the perfect book to keep around when you feel like a good mystery but don't want to devote a whole novel to one.
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12/17/07
Jen
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Picked this up for reading in the bath, and it got me thinking a little about what exactly a mystery is. The stories I enjoyed were mostly by writers I already knew, published in journals and reviews that aren't genre-specific.
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Read in February, 2009
This was more of a 3.5 than a 3, but not *quite* a 4. Some very fun stories and I enjoyed reading the entire thing, it was just a bit fluffy in places. Some really top-notch stories are included by some old masters.
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Read in January, 2008
This is such a great collection of short stories. There wasn't a stinker in the bunch and I have found new authors I'd like to read more of. I look forward to revisiting these stories in the future.
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Read in January, 2008
I'm kind of pissed off that there are novel excerpts in here. It's supposed to be shorts. Novel excerpts shouldn't count.
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Read in May, 2008
There were a few good stories in here, but Hiaasen seems to equate "good mystery" with "excessive violence."
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10/31/08
Tara
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My mother got me this (and the Best American Short Stories) for Christmas last year. Should be good. :)
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Read in August, 2008
A solid, often excellent anthology co-edited by one of my favorite crime writers, Carl Hiaasen.
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08/26/08
Jenna
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the stories are okay I guess some good some okay some great.
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