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Archer, Lew (Fictitious character) Fiction Detective and mystery stories, American Forensic sciences Fiction Horror tales, American Los Angeles (Calif.) Fiction Marlowe, Philip (Fictitious character) Fiction Private investigators California Los Angeles Fiction Private investigators California, Southern Fiction Short stories, American Suspense fiction, AmericanSummary: A collection of the year's best mystery and suspense short fiction selected by New York Times bestselling author and guest editor Jess Walter and series editor Steph Cha.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023
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Summary: From his vantage point in Southern California—and through the eyes of his great creation, private eye Lew Archer—Ross Macdonald (the pseudonymn of Kenneth Millar) fashions a haunting, startlingly immediate vision of modern America: a swirling mix of sexual exploitation, intergenerational conflict, racial animosities, and ecological disaster. In Black Money, Archer is hired to find a wealthy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A collection of top-selected mystery writing from the past year is culled from a variety of respected sources and offers insight into evolving genre trends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BESSummary: Starting with the 2021, the annual short story anthology will now become The Best American Mystery and Suspense and the new series editor, Steph Cha, and best-selling guest editor, Alafair Burke, will select the best short mystery and suspense fiction of the year.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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Contents: Blackmailers don't shoot -- Smart-aleck kill -- Finger man -- Killer in the rain -- Nevada gas -- Spanish blood -- Guns at Cyrano's -- The man who liked dogs -- Pickup on Noon Street -- Goldfish -- The curtain -- Try the girl -- Mandarin's jade -- Red wind -- The king in yellow -- Bay City blues -- The lady in the lake -- Pearls are a nuisance -- Trouble is my business -- I'll be waiting -- The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHADuBois, Brendan
Summary: To say that Brendan DuBois writes Thrillers is equivalent to saying that Fabergé was pretty good at decorating eggs. Not exactly wrong but a vast understatement of their accomplishments. Brendan DuBois's stories are not only filled with conflict, tension, and mystery, but they also dig into the issues that dominate our times.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crippen & Landru Publishers 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUBMacdonald, Ross
Summary: "The three novels collected in this second volume in the Library of America Ross Macdonald edition represent for many readers the summit of American crime writing. They remain thrilling for their searing psychological truth-telling, daring flights of narrative invention, and their keenly observed picture of the manners and morals of a particular time and place (Southern California in the early...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: The postman always rings twice / James M. Cain -- They shoot horses, don't they / Horace McCoy -- Thieves like us / Edward Anderson -- The big clock / Kenneth Fearing -- Nightmare alley / William Lindsay Gresham -- I married a dead man / Cornell Woolrich.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1997
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1 available in Adult, Call number: SC CRIChandler, Raymond
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHAChandler, Raymond
Summary: Later Novels and Other Writings begins with The Lady in the Lake (1943). Written during the war, the story takes Marlowe out of the seamy L.A. streets to the deceptive tranquility of the surrounding mountains, as the search for a businessman's missing wife expands into an elegy of loneliness and loss. The darker tone typical of Chandler's later fiction is evident in The Little Sister (1949), in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1995
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1 available in Adult, Call number: SC CHANDMauriello, Thomas P.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PI Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.6 MAUMcBain, Ed
Summary: 25 crime stories published between 1952-1957 written by Ed McBain under various pseudonyms.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCBAlcott, Louisa May
Contents: Dr. Dorn's revenge -- Countess Varazoff -- Fatal follies -- Fate in a fan -- Which wins? -- Honor's fortune -- My mysterious mademoiselle -- Betrayed by a buckle -- La Belle Bayadère.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Northeastern University Press 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALCChandler, Raymond
Summary: Pulp stories; The Big Sleep; Farewell, My Lovely; and The High Window.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHASummary: "Featuring guest-editor contributions by the Edgar Alan Poe Award-winning author of the Joe Pickett series, a latest annual anthology features top-selected short mystery and crime fiction stories from the past year"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BESMcBain, Ed
Summary: 25 crime stories published between 1952-1957 written by Ed McBain under various pseudonyms.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006