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Product Description: From Ed McBain to Sara Paretsky: a celebration of over fifty years of mystery masterworks. For over fifty years, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine has been one of the foremost magazines of mystery and suspense. This celebratory anthology features such bestselling writers as Lawrence Block, Ed McBain, and Jan Burke, just three of the esteemed contributors to have appeared in the magazine’s pages over the past five decades...read more
By Linda Landrigan (editor)

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9781605982700 | Reprint edition (Pegasus Books, December 15, 2011), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: From Ed McBain to Sara Paretsky: a celebration of over fifty years of mystery masterworks.
9781933648033 | Pegasus Books, June 26, 2006, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Con men and criminals, PIs and amateur sleuths, the mean streets of New York and San Francisco, Chicago and Seoul, not to mention eighteenth-century London and eleventh-century Japan.

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9781417751174 | Turtleback Books, June 1, 2006, cover price $29.40 | About this edition: From Ed McBain to Sara Paretsky: a celebration of over fifty years of mystery masterworks.

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The foremost writers in detective fiction have created an omnibus of true-life murder mysteries that includes baffling stories by Helen Simpson, Margaret Cole, Dorothy L. Sayers, John Rhode, E.R. Punshon, Frances Iles, and Freeman Willis Crofts

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9780027622546, titled "Clown" | Atheneum, October 1, 1988, cover price $8.95 | also contains Clown | About this edition: Clown's circus act has its ups and downs but he takes his bow at the end

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9780425118344 | Reprint edition (Berkley Pub Group, October 1, 1989), cover price $3.50 | About this edition: The foremost writers in detective fiction have created an omnibus of true-life murder mysteries that includes baffling stories by Helen Simpson, Margaret Cole, Dorothy L.

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By William Giraldi (foreword by)

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9780674055292 | Belknap Pr, October 26, 2015, cover price $39.95

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A photo essay about the range of plants and animals found in fresh water throughout the year, examining the living conditions and survival mechanisms of creatures dwelling at the edge of the water, on its surface, or under the mud.

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9780813937014 | Univ of Virginia Pr, May 4, 2015, cover price $59.50
9780394896151, titled "Pond and River" | Alfred a Knopf Inc, September 1, 1988, cover price $19.00 | also contains Pond and River | About this edition: A photo essay about the range of plants and animals found in fresh water throughout the year, examining the living conditions and survival mechanisms of creatures dwelling at the edge of the water, on its surface, or under the mud.
9780394896168, titled "Sports" | Alfred a Knopf Inc, September 1, 1988, cover price $19.00 | also contains Sports | About this edition: Examines the equipment, rules, and background of many different team, target, and court sports, including soccer, rugby, Gaelic football, softball, cricket, ice hockey, table tennis, archery, and pool.

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9780813937021 | Univ of Virginia Pr, May 4, 2015, cover price $24.50 | About this edition: In her reading of detective fiction and passing narratives from the end of the nineteenth century forward, Jinny Huh investigates anxieties about race and detection.

Product Description: Two Sherlock Holmes pastiches and one of the original Conan Doyle short stories. New illustrations by C. Woolery. Includes a commentary and glossary. One of the pastiches deals with the mystery surrounding Sherlock Holmes's elder brother, Mycroft...read more

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9780961931803 | Limited edition (Pencil Productions Ltd, November 1, 1987), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Two Sherlock Holmes pastiches and one of the original Conan Doyle short stories.
9780961931810 | Pencil Productions Ltd, November 1, 1987, cover price $9.95

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Product Description: Best-selling novelist Lee Child edits this latest collection of the genre’s finest from the past year. Featuring “gritty tales told with panache,” this is a “must-read for anybody who cares about crime stories” (Booklist).
By Lee Child (editor) and Otto Penzler (editor)

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9780547237466 | Original edition (Houghton Mifflin, October 5, 2010), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Best-selling novelist Lee Child edits this latest collection of the genre’s finest from the past year.

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By Harlan Coben (editor)

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9780547553962 | Original edition (Mariner Books, October 4, 2011), cover price $23.95

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By Robert Crais (editor)

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9780547553986 | 1 edition (Mariner Books, October 2, 2012), cover price $22.95

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By Lisa Scottoline (editor)

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9780544034600 | Mariner Books, October 8, 2013, cover price $14.95

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By Laura Lippman (editor)

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9780544034648 | Mariner Books, October 7, 2014, cover price $14.95

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By Otto Penzler (editor)

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9780544638747 | Houghton Mifflin, October 6, 2015, cover price $28.00

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By James Patterson (editor)

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9780544526754 | Mariner Books, October 6, 2015, cover price $14.95

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Product Description: “Well worth its impressive weight in gold, it would be a crime not to have this seminal masterpiece in your collection.”—New York Journal of Books In his introduction to The Best American Noir of the Century, James Ellroy writes, “Noir is the most scrutinized offshoot of the hard-boiled school of fiction...read more
By Otto Penzler (editor)

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9780547577449 | Mariner Books, October 4, 2011, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: “Well worth its impressive weight in gold, it would be a crime not to have this seminal masterpiece in your collection.

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By Otto Penzler (introduced by)

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9781620870495 | Skyhorse Pub Co Inc, September 1, 2012, cover price $12.95

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By Otto Penzler (editor)

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9781101870891 | Pantheon Books, October 27, 2015, cover price $40.00

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9781101872611 | Vintage Books, October 27, 2015, cover price $25.00

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A collection of three holiday mysteries includes stories by Joanne Fluke, Laura Levine, and Leslie Meyer, and features fourteen Christmas recipes.

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9780758221988 | Kensington Pub Corp, October 1, 2007, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A collection of three holiday mysteries includes stories by Joanne Fluke, Laura Levine, and Leslie Meyer, and features fourteen Christmas recipes.

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9781496705303 | Reissue edition (Kensington Pub Corp, October 27, 2015), cover price $9.95 | also contains Candy Cane Murder
9780758276896 | Kensington Pub Corp, August 1, 2011, cover price $7.99
9780758226013 | Kensington Pub Corp, September 25, 2007, cover price $9.95
9780553231045, titled "Up Front" | Reprint edition (Bantam Books, March 1, 1983), cover price $2.95 | also contains Candy Cane Murder, Up Front

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By David L. Ulin (editor)

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9781936070978 | Original edition (Akashic Books, May 17, 2011), cover price $15.95

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Product Description: CELEBRATE THE HOLIDAYS WITH FAMILY AND FELINESIn these nineteen original tail-twitching tales of mystery, cats from Maine coon to Scottish fold, tabby to Siamese, white Persian to calico crack all manner of holiday capers. Arbor Day reminds a veterinarian how a kitten's coat cinched a murder case ...read more

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9780345482228 | Ivy Books, January 3, 1995, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: CELEBRATE THE HOLIDAYS WITH FAMILY AND FELINESIn these nineteen original tail-twitching tales of mystery, cats from Maine coon to Scottish fold, tabby to Siamese, white Persian to calico crack all manner of holiday capers.

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Product Description: Appropriate both for the general reader and the student, this wide-ranging anthology of mystery stories provides a chronological and thematic survey of early detection fiction. Included are classic texts by Edgar Allan Poe, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, G...read more

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9780786446506 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, October 19, 2010, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Appropriate both for the general reader and the student, this wide-ranging anthology of mystery stories provides a chronological and thematic survey of early detection fiction.

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