The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories: 2: Second Annual Collection

by Ed Gorman

Book Overview

It's not easy to collect, in a single volume, the finest mystery and suspense fiction the world has to offer, but The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories: Second Annual Collection rises to that challenge, inviting you to discover what Kirkus Reviews dubs " . . . the year's anthology of choice." In his Second Annual collection, Ed Gorman once again brings together the year's most powerful fiction by such outstanding authors as Lawrence Block,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 076530029X
• ISBN13: 9780765300294
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Forge
• Length: 640 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 6.5" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

A delightfully varied mystery buffet

The beauty of a book of this sort--with dozens of mysteries, is like a buffet--if you don't like it--you spit it out and go to the next short story. With a delightful eclectic mixture of genres and leads--everything from a purloined stone hidden in a ham sandwich, to a cat in the Pharonic times of Egypt--who narrates the tale, this is a delightful book. Not only did I read it, 5 years latter I fell across a book-on-tape version, and could enjoy it all over again--one does understand it different with words on paper versus words in the ear.