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Mystery Writers of America
A Hot and Sultry Night for Crime
by Jeffery Deaver, Loren D. Estleman, Toni L.P. Kelner, Suzanne C. Johnson, John Lutz, Gary Brandner, Mat Coward, Angela Zeman, Robert Lee Hall, Tim Myers, G. Miki Hayden, Jeremiah Healy, Alan Cook, David Bart, Ana Rainwater, Sinclair Browning, Marilyn Wallace, Carolyn Wheat, David Handler, & Ronnie Klaskin
Series: Mystery Writers of America Presents: Classics, Book 1.
Price:
$4.99 USD.
Words: 112,800.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: September 18, 2017
by
Mystery Writers of America.
Categories:
Fiction » Anthologies » Mystery, Fiction » Mystery & detective » General, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Crime, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Amateur sleuth
TEMPERS FLARE IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT… …And the wrong move, the wrong word, even the wrong look can set off any man or woman already driven past their boiling point. A Hot and Sultry Night for Crime, edited by bestselling author Jeffery Deaver, features 20 stories of people dealing with not just the torrid weather, but all different kinds of heat. From a retired police chief pitching in on a...
The Lethal Sex
by Christianna Brand, Ursula Curtis, Margaret Millar, Bernice Carey, Margaret Manners, Anthony Gilbert, Jean Potts, Miriam Allen deFord, Gladys Cluff, Carolyn Thomas, Nedra Tyre, D. Jenkins Smith, Veronica Parker Johns, & Juanita Sheridan
Series: Mystery Writers of America Presents: Classics, Book 4.
Price:
$4.99 USD.
Words: 69,390.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: June 27, 2018
by
Mystery Writers of America.
Categories:
Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - multi-author, Fiction » Anthologies » Mystery, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Traditional British, Fiction » Mystery & detective » General, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Crime
THE FAIRER SEX? NOT THESE LADIES… The female of the species is absolutely deadlier than the male in these 14 cunningly-crafted tales of suspense, crimes of passion, and murder, all by women writers. Edited by MWA Grandmaster and bestselling mystery author John D. MacDonald, these bone-chilling stories show the depths that men and women will stoop to in pursuit of what they want. Christianna...
Merchants of Menace
by Joan Aiken, Suzanne Blanc, Robert Bloch, Michael Butterworth, Miriam Allen deFord, Stanley Ellin, Robert L. Fish, Celia Fremlin, Elsin Ann Gardner, Ron Goulart, Patricia Highsmith, Ross Macdonald, Al Nussbaum, Ellery Queen, Lawrence Treat, Don Von Elsner, Donald E. Westlake, Cornell Woolrich, Rod Amateau, & David Davis
Series: Mystery Writers of America Presents: Classics, Book 5.
Price:
$4.99 USD.
Words: 105,250.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: October 29, 2018
by
Mystery Writers of America.
Categories:
Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - multi-author, Fiction » Anthologies » Mystery, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Historical, Fiction » Mystery & detective » General, Fiction » Mystery & detective » International crime
CRIME AND MYSTERY STORIES BY 20 VENDORS OF VILLAINY Mystery Writers of America is pleased to present this sinister volume of larceny, deception, and murder, brought to you by the very finest purveyors of perfidy. Donald E. Westlake tells a tale of a cheating wife who tries to turn the tables on her blackmailer, only to find herself caught in a bigger web of lies than she could have imagined...
Women's Wiles
by Michele Slung, Joyce Harrington, Edward D. Hoch, Frank Sisk, James Yaffe, Lawrence Treat, Dorothy A. Collins, Morris Hershman, Susan Dunlap, Stanley Ellin, Dorothy Salisbury Davis, Josh Pachter, Stanley Cohen, Richard Deming, Margaret Millar, Kathleen Hershey, Richard A. Moore, L. Fred Ayvazian, Joan Richter, & Cornell Woolrich
Series: Mystery Writers of America Presents: Classics, Book 2.
Price:
$4.99 USD.
Words: 95,220.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: December 16, 2017
by
Mystery Writers of America.
Categories:
Fiction » Anthologies » Mystery, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Traditional British, Fiction » Mystery & detective » General, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Crime, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Amateur sleuth
NOTHING'S WHAT IT SEEMS IN THIS SLYLY SINISTER COLLECTION OF DAMES DONE WRONG...AND DOING THE SAME! Shocking surprises, chilling comeuppances, and mercies that are anything but tender are just part of what to expect from these memorable stories of women's wills...and wiles. Choosing them with an eye to the dangers ever lurking in our everyday lives, acclaimed editor Michele Slung very clearly...
Blood on Their Hands
by Brendan DuBois, Noreen Ayres, Shelley Costa, Tom Savage, Tracy Knight, Aileen Schumacher, Elaine Viets, G. Miki Hayden, Elaine Togneri, Henry Slesar, William E. Chambers, Stefanie Matteson, Charlotte Hinger, Dan Crawford, Rhys Bowen, Mat Coward, Marcia Talley, Elizabeth Foxwell, & Jeremiah Healy
Series: Mystery Writers of America Presents: Classics, Book 3.
Price:
$4.99 USD.
Words: 97,850.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: March 15, 2018
by
Mystery Writers of America.
Categories:
Fiction » Anthologies » Mystery, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Traditional British, Fiction » Mystery & detective » General, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Crime
VIGILANTE? VICTIM? VILLAIN? Where is your breaking point? Would you defy the law in pursuit of justice? How far would you have to be pushed before you got…blood on your hands? Nineteen gripping crime and mystery stories reveal the transgressions ordinary people commit when they feel they have no other choice. What should be a marriage of wealth and privilege contains only dark secrets of the...
The Comfortable Coffin
by Richard S. Prather
Series: A Mystery Writers of America Classic Anthology, Book 10.
Price:
$4.99 USD.
Words: 63,720.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: July 2, 2020
by
Mystery Writers of America.
Categories:
Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - multi-author, Fiction » Anthologies » Mystery, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Traditional British, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Hard-Boiled, Fiction » Mystery & detective » General
FIFTEEN CRIME AND MYSTERY STORIES THAT WILL MAKE YOU LAUGH UNTIL YOU DIE… Humor is often found in unlikely places, and nowhere is that more evident than in the Mystery Writers of America's latest classic anthology, edited by master raconteur Richard S. Prather. Richard's only criteria for this collection was that each crime or mystery story had to make the reader laugh, and the writers selected...
A Choice of Murders
by Dorothy Salisbury Davis, Stanley Ellin, Robert Turner, Stephen Marlowe, Mignon G. Eberhardt, Ross Macdonald, John Basye Price, Ellery Queen, Ruthven Todd, Margaret Millar, Wenzell Brown, Robert Arthur, Anthony Gilbert, Anthony Boucher, Helen Kasson, Margaret Manners, Stuart Palmer, Lawrence G. Blochman, Andrew Garve, Marc Seymour, Lawrence Treat, James A. Kirch, Ryerson Johnson, & Michael Gilbert
Series: Mystery Writers of America Presents: Classics, Book 7.
Price:
$4.99 USD.
Words: 101,440.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: May 25, 2019
by
Mystery Writers of America.
Categories:
Fiction » Anthologies » Mystery, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Hard-Boiled, Fiction » Mystery & detective » General, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Amateur sleuth
WHEN IT COMES TO MURDER, THERE'S ALWAYS A CHOICE… The only thing more varied than how people are killed is the many, many ways people try to get away with this terrible crime. Now masterful mystery writer Dorothy Salisbury Davis brings together 23 classic stories of crime and suspense, whodunits and detective stories from some of the finest authors of the 1950s. Ross Macdonald's classic P.I...
Tricks and Treats
by Bill Pronzini
Series: Mystery Writers of America Presents: Classics, Book 6.
Price:
$4.99 USD.
Words: 96,350.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: February 15, 2019
by
Mystery Writers of America.
Categories:
Fiction » Anthologies » Mystery, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Traditional British, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Police Procedural, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Historical, Fiction » Mystery & detective » General
30 CRIME AND MYSTERY STORIES GOOD TO THE LAST LINE The McGuffin has long been a staple tool in any crime and mystery writer's arsenal. A perfectly placed last line of a short story can pull together subtle plot threads into a devastating dénouement or give everything that came before it a brand-new meaning, sometimes even reshaping the story entirely for the reader. Joe Gores and Bill Pronzini...
Murder Most Foul
by Robert Bloch, Dorothy Salisbury Davis, Stanley Ellin, Robert L. Fish, Joe Gores, Allan Kim Lang, Patricia McGerr, Ross Macdonald, William P. McGivern, William F. Nolan, Charles Norman, Ellery Queen, Lawrence Treat, Hillary Waugh, & Donald A. Wollheim
Series: A Mystery Writers of America Classic Anthology, Book 9.
Price:
$4.99 USD.
Words: 72,610.
Language:
English.
Originally Published: October 15, 2019
by
Mystery Writers of America.
Categories:
Fiction » Anthologies » Mystery, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Traditional British, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Police Procedural, Fiction » Mystery & detective » General
FIFTEEN STORIES ABOUT THE MOST HEINOUS CRIME OF ALL… Of all the crimes humankind can commit, the act of murder—of cold-bloodedly taking another human life—is often the most shocking, and can tear couples, families, and even entire towns apart. Mystery Writers of America is proud to present this volume in the Classics series, featuring fourteen stories by acclaimed writers, all exploring the...