Lawrence Block
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen stories by seventeen brilliant writers, inspired by seventeen paintings. That was the formula for Lawrence Block's two ground-breaking anthologies, In Sunlight or in Shadow and Alive in Shape and Color, and it's on glorious display here once again in From Sea to Stormy Sea. This time the paintings are exclusively the work of American artists, and the roster includes Harvey Dunn, John Steuart Curry, Reginald Marsh, Thomas Hart Benton, Helen...
43) Inherit the dead
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Pericles "Perry" Christo is a PI with a past -- a former cop who lost his badge and his family when a corruption scandal left him broke and disgraced. When wealthy upper East Side matron Julia Drusilla summons him one cold February night, he grabs what seems to be a straightforward (and lucrative) case. The socialite is looking for her beautiful, aimless daughter, Angelina, who is about to become a very wealthy young woman. But as Christo digs deeper,...
Publisher
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, Vintage Books, A division of Random House, LLC
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Edgar Award{u2013}winning editor Otto Penzler has collected sixty-eight of the all-time best impossible-crime stories from almost two hundred years of the genre. In addition to the many classic examples of the form {u2014} a case of murder in a locked room or otherwise inaccessible place, solved by a brilliant sleuth {u2014} this collection expands the definition of the locked room to include tales of unbelievable thefts and incredible disappearances....