Murder on the Ropes: Original Boxing Mysteries

by Otto Penzler (editor), Doug Allyn (Contributor), Andrew Bergman (Contributor)

In Murder on the Ropes, boxing's own set of mystery stories, who-dunnit, why and how are always the questions. When the bell rings and the knockout is final, what will be the reason, the source, and the motivation for killing and destroying the world's best boxers and their associates? Authors include Lawrence Block, Loren D. Estleman, Joyce Carol Oates, F.X. Toole and many more

396 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 2001

About the author

Otto Penzler is an editor of mystery fiction in the United States, and proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City, where he lives.

Otto Penzler founded The Mysteriour Press in 1975 and was the publisher of The Armchair Detective, the Edgar-winning quarterly journal devoted to the study of mystery and suspense fiction, for seventeen years.

Penzler has won two Edgar Awards, for The Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection in 1977, and The Lineup in 2010. The Mystery Writers of America awarded him the prestigious Ellery Queen Award in 1994, and the Raven--the group's highest non-writing award--in 2003.