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Title The new mystery : the International Association of Crime Writers' essential crime writing of the late 20th century / edited by Jerome Charyn ; [illustrations by Vidal Centero].

Publication Info. New York : Dutton, [1993]
©1993

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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  808.83 N42    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Manross Branch - Non Fiction  808.83 N42    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  MYS NEW    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  808.83 NEW    Check Shelf
Description xii, 387 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note "A Byron Preiss book."
Contents The Watts Lions / Walter Mosley -- How I contemplated the world from the Detroit House of Correction and began my life over again / Joyce Carol Oates -- The snail watcher / Patricia Highsmith -- Just say no / Roger L. Simon -- In the Bronx / Don DeLillo -- Goldfish / Didier Daeninckx -- Cathedral / Raymond Carver -- Dealer's choice / Sara Paretsky -- The summer of '37 / Julian Semionov -- No radio / Mickey Friedman -- Mafia western / Leonardo Sciascia -- Manufacture of a legend / Paco Ignacio Tabio II -- The king / Isaac Babel -- The law of the eye / Pieke Biermann -- The merciful angel of death / Lawrence Block -- Ishmael / Joe Gores -- The last voyage of the ghost ship / Gabriel García Márquez -- Cain / Andrew Vachss -- The ultimate caper / Donald E. Westlake -- Chee's witch / Tony Hillerman -- Little Leo / Jerome Charyn -- Cities and the dead / Italo Calvino -- Gravy train / James Ellroy -- Death and the compass / Jorge Luis Borges -- Nicholas in exile / Herbert Gold -- Captain Blood / Donald Barthelme -- Mirror girl / William Bayer -- The man who hated books / Stuart M. Kaminsky -- Pig Latin / Clarice Lispector -- Devices and desires / P.D. James -- Martyrdom / Yukio Mishima -- Fathers and daughters / Laura Grimaldi -- The werewolf / Angela Carter -- Missionary stew / Ross Thomas -- The moment before the gun went off / Nadine Gordimer -- Soft monkey / Harlan Ellison -- The casebook of Dr. Billingsgate / Eric Wright -- Imagine this / George C. Chesbro -- A boy and his dog / Manuel Vásquez Montalbán -- A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor -- The Parker shotgun / Sue Grafton -- I spy / Graham Greene.
Summary A collection of 32 mystery stories written by various authors.
Local Note 93-052957107
93-052957107
Subject Detective and mystery stories.
Fiction -- 20th century.
Detective and mystery stories. (OCoLC)fst00891461
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst00923709
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Short stories.
Mystery fiction.
Short stories. (OCoLC)fst01726740
Short stories.
Mystery fiction.
Added Author Charyn, Jerome.
ISBN 0525935169 ($32.99 Can.)
9780525935162
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