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First edition, first printing. Very good hard cover, with unclipped dust jacket. Light shelf and handling wear overall; light creasing to edges of DJ, minor tanning. Boards very clean, front board is slightly bowed. Pages are securely bound, content unmarked. CN.

384 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 2000

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Josh Pachter

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JOSH PACHTER is a writer, editor and translator. More than a hundred and twenty of his short crime stories have appeared in EQMM, AHMM, and many other periodicals, anthologies, and year’s-best collections. THE TREE OF LIFE (Wildside Press, 2015) collected all ten of his Mahboob Chaudri stories. His 2023 novel DUTCH THREAT was named a finalist for the Agatha, Lefty, and Macavity awards. FIRST WEEK FREE AT THE ROOMY TOILET, his first chapter book for younger readers, was published in 2024 and was a finalist for the Agatha Award in the Best Childrens/YA Mystery category.

He is the editor of many anthologies, including:

• FRIEND OF THE DEVIL: CRIME FICTION INSPIRED BY THE SONGS OF THE GRATEFUL DEAD (Down and Out, 2024)

• HAPPINESS IS A WARM GUN: CRIME FICTION INSPIRED BY THE SONGS OF THE BEATLES (Down and Out, 2023)

• THE BEAT OF BLACK WINGS: CRIME FICTION INSPIRED BY THE SONGS OF JONI MITCHELL (Untreed Reads, 2020)

• THE MISADVENTURES OF NERO WOLFE (Mysterious Press, 2020)

• THE MAN WHO READ MYSTERIES: THE SHORT FICTION OF WILLIAM BRITTAIN (Crippen & Landru, 2018)

• THE MAN WHO SOLVED MYSTERIES: MORE SHORT FICTION BY WILLIAM BRITTAIN (Crippen & Landru, 2022)

• PARANOIA BLUES: CRIME FICTION INSPIRED BY THE SONGS OF PAUL SIMON (Down and Out Books, 2022).

He also co-edited AMSTERDAM NOIR (Akashic Books, 2019), THE MISADVENTURES OF ELLERY QUEEN (Wildside Press, 2018), AND THE FURTHER MISADVENTURES OF ELLERY QUEEN (Wildside Press, 2020), and co-wrote (with the legendary Ellery Queen) THE ADVENTURES OF THE PUZZLE CLUB (Crippen & Landru, 2022).

Coming in 2025:

• EVERY DAY A LITTLE DEATH: CRIME FICTION INSPIRED BY THE SONGS OF STEPHEN SONDHEIM (Level Best)

• CRYIN' SHAME: CRIME FICTION INSPIRED BY THE SONGS OF LYLE LOVETT (Down and Out)

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January 24, 2021
-Resultados extraños por la mezcla de verdaderas intenciones, verdaderos empaques y verdaderos subgéneros.-

Género. Relatos.

Lo que nos cuenta. El libro La crema del crimen (publicación original: Crème de la crime, 1983) es una antología de relatos de misterio y policiales (en un sentido amplio de dichas categorías), recopilados por Josh Pachter tras pedir a medio centenar de autores que eligieran su mejor cuento o su cuento favorito, que nos mostrarán varios tipos de venganza (incluso alguna sobrenatural), varios efectos distintos de la educación y/o los ejemplos que reciben los niños, un supuesto fallo de seguridad sobre secretos confidenciales o, entre otros asuntos, algún (supuesto) caso de desequilibrio mental. La edición en español ofrece una mezcla de una parte de los relatos publicados en el original y algunos de los publicados en la edición holandesa, pero en la introducción siguen siendo citados algunos de los que no están como si estuvieran dentro del volumen.

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December 19, 2023
Una entretenida colección de relatos sobre crímenes y criminales, pero que no acaba de cuajar por no tener una guía central más allá de ser elegidos por sus autores.

Destacó los cuentos “La especialidad de la casa”, de Stanley Ellin; “Durante el cuarto año de guerra”, de Harlan Ellison; “La tortuga de agua”, de Patricia Highsmith; “El hombre que había leído a John Dickson Carr”, de William Brittain y “Una presunta firma de Abraham Lincoln”, de Ellery Queen.

Lectura ligera y sin dificultades, como para los días de verano.
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