03093cam a2200625 i 4500 1145877196 TxAuBib 20240215120000.0 230911s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2023065255 9781613164488 hc. 1613164483 hc. 9781613164495 pbk. 1613164491 pbk. TxAuBib rda The best mystery stories of the year 2023 / introduction by Amor Towles ; foreword by Otto Penzler, series editor. Mysterious Bookshop presents the best mystery stories of the year 2023. First edition. New York : The Mysterious Press, [2023] xxii, 523 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier At head of title: The Mysterious Bookshop presents. Foreword / Otto Penzler -- Introduction / Amor Towles -- Blind baseball / Allyn, Doug -- Adventure of the misquoted Macbeth / Belanger, Derrick -- Princess / Boyle, T. C. -- Cold hands, warm heart / Chase, Joslyn -- New kid in town / Child, Andrew -- Death at the Sundial Motel / Clark, Aaron Philip -- Dodge / Deaver, Jeffery -- Landscaper's wife / DuBois, Brendan -- Strangers at a table / Hammond, Kerry -- Miller and Bell / Kreuiter, Victor -- Two sharks walk into a bar / Krugler, David -- Pobre Maria / Larsen, Tom -- Playing God / Lavinksy, Avram -- Ears / Lewis, Jessi -- Smoking gunners / Lister, Ashley -- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Wednesday / Mccluskey, Sean -- What the cat dragged in / Mallory, Michael Allan -- Sundown / Manfredo, Lou -- Promise / Reed, Annie -- Glass / Round, Anna -- Crime scene / Walker, Joseph S. -- Bottle of Perrier / Wharton, Edith. "Amor Towles selects the best mystery short stories of the year, including tales by Andrew Child, Jeffrey Deaver, and T.C. Boyle"-- Provided by publisher. 20240215. Short stories. Detective and mystery fiction. Nonfiction. local Towles, Amor, writer of introduction. Penzler, Otto, writer of foreword. Allyn, Douglas. Belanger, Derrick, 1975- Boyle, T. Coraghessan. Chase, Joslyn. Child, Andrew, 1968- New kid in town. Clark, Aaron Philip. Deaver, Jeffery. Dodge. DuBois, Brendan. Landscaper's wife. Hammond, Kerry. Kreuiter, Victor. Krugler, David F., 1969- Larsen, Tom. Lavinksy, Avram. Lewis, Jessi. Lister, Ashley. McCluskey, Sean. Mallory, Michael Allan. Manfredo, Lou. Reed, Annie. Round, Anna. Walker, Joseph S. TXKPL