The Best American Mystery Stories 2011
HarperCollins · Paperback · October 4, 2011
The Best American Series® First, Best, and Best-Selling The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction.
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- Who it’s for
- Layered suspense in a compact, discussable format.
- Genres
- Mystery Anthologies, Short Story Anthologies, Crime Fiction
- Published
- HarperCollins, October 4, 2011
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The Best American Series® First, Best, and Best-Selling The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume’s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected—and most popular—of its kind.
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The Best American Mystery Stories 2011 includes Lawrence Block, Brendan DuBois, Loren D. Estleman, Beth Ann Fennelly and Tom Franklin, Ed Gorman, Richard Lange, S. J. Rozan, Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins, and others
Sharp Doses
Layered suspense in a compact, discussable format.
Come here for
- Short-story suspense, in tidy doses
- Crime-inflected variety with room to talk
Expect
- Anthology pace, not one long arc
- A serious, polished crime-fiction mix
Where it sits
| Mystery Anthologies | 99% |
|---|---|
| Short Story Anthologies | 55% |
| Crime Fiction | 26% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Short Story Anthologies
- Literary Fiction
- Mystery Anthologies
- Sci-Fi Short Stories
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- Short Stories (Single Author)
- Crime Fiction
- Noir Fiction
- American Literary Collections
- Authors
- Harlan Coben, Otto Penzler
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- October 4, 2011
- Format
- Paperback
- Reading lane
- Short Story Anthologies