Written by ed. Otto Penzler, ed. Tony Hillerman Read by Ted Stoddard Format: MP3 Bitrate: 64 Kbps Unabridged

The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century Edited by Otto Penzler & Tony Hillerman Read by Ted Stoddard Encode: mp3 - 64kbps, Mono, 44.1 kHz Total # of Tracks: 51 Total Play time: 36:00:24

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In THE BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES OF THE CENTURY, best-selling author Tony Hillerman and mystery expert Otto Penzler present an unparalleled treasury of American suspense fiction that every fan will cherish. Offering the finest examples from all reaches of the genre, this collection charts the mystery’s eminent history from the turn-of-the-century puzzles of Futrelle, to the seminal pulp fiction of Hammett and Chandler, to the mystery story’s rise to legitimacy in the popular mind, a trend that has benefited masterly writers like Westlake, Hunter, and Grafton. Nowhere else can readers find a more thorough, more engaging, more essential distillation of American crime fiction. Penzler, the Best American Mystery Stories series editor, and Hillerman winnowed this select group out of a thousand stories, drawing on sources as diverse as Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine and Esquire, Collier’s and The New Yorker. Giants of the genre abound — Raymond Chandler, Stephen King, Dashiell Hammett, Lawrence Block, Ellery Queen, Sara Paretsky, and others — but the editors also unearthed gems by luminaries rarely found in suspense anthologies: William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, Damon Runyon, Harlan Ellison, James Thurber, and Joyce Carol Oates. Mystery buffs and newcomers alike will delight in the thrilling stories and top-notch writing of a hundred years’ worth of the finest suspense, crime, and mystery writing.

Stories in this collection:

1. Foreword by Otto Penzler
2. Introduction by Tony Hillerman
3. A Retrieved Reformation by O. Henry
4. Paul’s Case by Willa Cather
5. The Problem of Cell 13 by Jacques Futrelle
6. Blind Man’s Buff by Frederick Irving Anderson
7. Naboth’s Vineyard by Melville Davisson Post
8. A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell
9. The Gutting of Couffignal by Dashiell Hammett
10. Haircut by Ring Lardner
11. Blue Murder by Wilbur Daniel Steele
12. The Perfect Crime by Ben Ray Redman
13. The Baby in the Icebox by James M. Cain
14. The Murder by John Steinbeck
15. Sense of Humor by Damon Runyan
16. Ransom by Pearl S. Buck
17. Red Wind by Raymond Chandler
18. The Catbird Seat by James Thurber
19. Rear Window by Cornell Woolrich
20. An Error in Chemistry by William Faulkner
21. The Nine Mile Walk by Harry Kemelman
22. The Adventure of the President’s Half Disme by Ellery Queen
23. The Homesick Buick by John D. MacDonald
24. Gone Girl by Ross Macdonald
25. The Moment of Decision by Stanley Ellin
26. First Offense by Evan Hunter
27. The Couple Next Door by Margaret Millar
28. The Day of the Execution by Henry Slesar
29. The Terrapin by Patricia Highsmith
30. The Possibility of Evil by Shirley Jackson
31. The Comforts of Home by Flannery O’Connor
32. Good Man, Bad Man by Jerome Weidman
33. Goodbye, Pops by Joe Gores
34. The Whimper of Whipped Dogs by Harlan Ellison
35. The Wager by Robert L. Fish
36. Do With Me What You Will by Joyce Carol Oates
37. Quitters, Inc. by Stephen King
38. The Absence of Emily by Jack Ritchie
39. By the Dawn’s Early Light by Lawrence Block
40. Iris by Stephen Greenleaf
41. Three-Dot Po by Sara Paretsky
42. The Parker Shotgun by Sue Grafton
43. Too Many Crooks by Donald E. Westlake
44. Hot Springs by James Crumley
45. The Dark Snow by Brendan DuBois
46. Red Clay by Michael Malone
47. Poachers by Tom Franklin
48. Running Out of Dog by Dennis Lehane
49. Biographical Notes