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The Best American Mystery Stories | 
 enlarge | Author: Mcbain
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (Trade)
Category: Book
List Price: £16.99
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 1299134
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 457
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 8.6 x 5.8 x 1.4
ISBN: 039593916X
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.087208
UPC: 046442939164
EAN: 9780395939161
ASIN: 039593916X
Publication Date: November 26, 1999
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Not exactly princes... August 3, 2001
georgehawthorn@hotmail.com (N. Ireland)
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Ever had a K-mart clad bad good ol' boy from the Ozarks pop you behind the ear with a ball-peen hammer? What would that be like? Any ideas on how to make a hate-ridden serial killer 'useful'? And that guy who's playing around with your wife - how do you permanently lower his sail without frying in the chair? Ask yourself would you ever - even for a split second - consider 'losing' a vital piece of evidence for the sake of one glorious chance to soar from insignificance into the celebrity bright lights? These are some of the questions asked by the twenty (many best-selling) authors represented here. Between them they produce a huge breadth of answers in finely written compassionate stories (three of which have been movie optioned). It's the empathy these writers so succinctly convey through the sheer sense of place, situation and character that I love about these tales. From shining sea to sea and the characters face a variety of dilemmas - from the imagined to the humorous, from the frightening to the plain excruciating. Of course most of the characters are not exactly princes - some are deeply disturbed lowlifes - but then again most don't ever get to live in palaces. Also included is a compact history of the mystery by guest editor Robert B Parker, charting its possibly biblical beginnings through to the present day. He celebrates its rise in literary stature to a now deservedly respected position. But the stories, he reminds us, remain essentially a hero's "adventure in search of a hidden truth" by a hero "fit for adventure". Soulful.
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