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Golden age bibliomysteries / Otto Penzler, editor.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Fiction Mystery Golden
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Otto Penzler's classic American mystery library
- American mystery classics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Books and reading--Fiction.
- Books and reading.
- Booksellers and bookselling--Fiction.
- Booksellers and bookselling.
- Detective and mystery stories, American.
- Short stories, American.
- Book clubs (Discussion groups)--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Book clubs (Discussion groups).
- Genre:
- Fiction
- Detective and mystery fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 426 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Penzler Publishers, 2023.
- Summary:
- In these classic mystery tales, literature is a matter of life or death. Of crime fiction's many sub-genres, none is so reflexive and so intriguing as the "bibliomystery": stories that involve crimes set, somehow, in the world of books. In Vincent Starrett's "A Volume of Poe," a bookseller is murdered; in Ellery Queen's "The Adventure of the Three R's," the detective tracks the disappearance of a local Missouri author; and a killer stalks the stacks of the New York Public Library in Robert L. Blochman's "Death Walks in Marble Halls." With fourteen tales of bibliophilic transgression from the Golden Age of the mystery genre (the decades between the two World Wars), this volume collects stories guaranteed to entertain, featuring work from well-remembered authors such as Cornell Woolrich and Anthony Boucher and from those that are lesser-known today, such as Carolyn Wells and James Gould Cozzens. Edgar Award-winning anthologist, editor, bookseller, and mystery scholar Otto Penzler has focused extensively on the history of the bibliomystery, and his expertise shines in this enjoyable collection--both in the selection of stories, and in the informative and illuminating introductions that accompany each one.
- "Of crime fiction's many sub-genres, none is so reflexive and so intriguing as the "bibliomystery": stories that involve crimes set, somehow, in the world of books. With fourteen tales of bibliophilic transgression from the Golden Age of the mystery genre (the decades between the two World Wars), this volume collects stories guaranteed to entertain, featuring work from well-remembered authors such as Cornell Woolrich and Anthony Boucher and from those that are lesser-known today, such as Carolyn Wells and James Gould Cozzens"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The Jorgenson plates / Frederick Irving Anderson
- The Aldine folio murders / Lawrence G. Blochman
- Death walks in marble halls / Lawrence G. Blochman
- QL 696 .C9 / Anthony Boucher
- Foot in it / James Gould Cozzens
- The missing Shakespeare manuscript / Lillian de la Torre
- State fair murder / Frank Gruber
- The episode of the codex' curse / C. Daly King
- The adventure of the three R's / Ellery Queen
- The unique hamlet / Vincent Starrett
- A volume of Poe / Vincent Starrett
- The Shakespeare title-page mystery / Carolyn Wells
- The book that squealed / Cornell Woolrich
- The stolen Endymion / Lassiter Wren & Randle McKay.
- Notes:
- "Otto Penzler presents American mystery classics"--Cover.
- Includes discussiob questions.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Barry F. Wiksten book fund bookplate.
- Contains:
- Anderson, Frederick Irving, 1877-1947. Jorgenson plates.
- Blochman, Lawrence G. (Lawrence Goldtree), 1900-1975. Aldine folio murders.
- Blochman, Lawrence G. (Lawrence Goldtree), 1900-1975. Death walks in marble halls.
- Boucher, Anthony, 1911-1968. QL 696 .C9.
- Cozzens, James Gould, 1903-1978. Foot in it.
- De La Torre, Lillian, 1902-1993. Missing Shakespeare manuscript.
- Gruber, Frank, 1904-1969. State fair murder.
- King, C. Daly, 1895-1963. Episode of the codex' curse.
- Queen, Ellery. Adventure of the three r's.
- Starrett, Vincent, 1886-1974. Unique Hamlet.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Penzler, Otto. Golden age bibliomysteries.
- ISBN:
- 9781613164204
- 1613164203
- 9781613164211
- 1613164211
- 9781613164228
- 161316422X
- OCLC:
- 1390652572
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