Product Description: This Boston-based mystery stars smart and sassy Beantown Banner reporter Liz Higgins, who rails at being assigned only light news highlighted in front page teasers. She vows to change that by finding a missing mom and nailing front-page news in the process...read more

Product Description: In 1929, Dorothy L. Sayers published her landmark anthology, The Omnibus of Crime. More recently, Tony Hillerman and Rosemary Herbert decided it was time to produce a definitive new anthology representing the best of the genre since then - the critically acclaimed A New Omnibus of Crime...read more

In this collection of mystery short fiction from the early 1930s to the present, each selection is introduced and placed in the context of the author and the genre's literary history and includes works by Paul Theroux, P. D. James, Sue Grafton, Dennis Lehane, Patricia Highsmith, Joyce Carol Oates, and other notables.

'Entertaining and authoritative, this alphabetically arranged companion is an indispensable reference guide to crime and mystery writing. Unique in its biographical and critical treatment of major detective writers, it is a comprehensive digest to the genre's lexicon, characters, themes, time periods, milieus, and curiosities.'--'Outstanding Reference Sources,' American Libraries, May 2001.Gathers essays by such crime and mystery authors as Sara Paretsky, Edward D. Hoch, Ruth Rendell, and Tony Hillerman

Product Description: From a regional setting in which two farmers' wives develop a taste for detection, to a murder in the fast paced world of New York high finance, the tales included in Twelve American Crime Stories offer readers the opportunity to play detective and solve the mysteries for themselves...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

An international anthology of twenty-five mystery stories on the high seas features the work of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Janwillem van de Wetering, Chris Rippen, Saho Sasazawa, John Mortimer, Agatha Christie, William Faulkner, Ellery Queen, and other notable writers. UP. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Edgar Allan Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue" launched the detective story in 1841. The genre began as a highbrow form of entertainment, a puzzle to be solved by a rational sifting of clues. In Britain, the stories became decidedly upper crust: the crime often committed in a world of manor homes and formal gardens, the blood on the Persian carpet usually blue...read more

Product Description: Book by Herbert, Rosemary