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The Best American Mystery Stories of the Nineteenth Century by Otto Penzler

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The Best American Mystery Stories of the Nineteenth Century

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Otto Penzler

HarperCollins · Ebook · October 7, 2014

Reading lane: Mystery Anthologies

An unparalleled treasury of crime, mystery, and murder from the genre’s founding century With stories by Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum, Edith Wharton, Stephen Crane, and Jack London, The Best American Mystery Stories of the Nineteenth Century is an essential anthology of American letters.

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Authors
Otto Penzler
Publisher
HarperCollins
Published
October 7, 2014
Format
Ebook
Theme
Mystery Anthologies · Mystery & Crime Crit
Reading lane
Mystery Anthologies

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  • Literary Graphic Novels

  • Fantasy Anthologies

  • Literary Fiction

  • Mystery Anthologies

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  • Sci-Fi Short Stories

  • Short Stories (Single Author)

  • Crime Fiction

  • Noir Fiction

About This Book

An unparalleled treasury of crime, mystery, and murder from the genre’s founding century With stories by Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum, Edith Wharton, Stephen Crane, and Jack London, The Best American Mystery Stories of the Nineteenth Century is an essential anthology of American letters. It’s a unique blend of beloved writers who contributed to the genre and forgotten names that pioneered the form, such as Anna Katharin...

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An unparalleled treasury of crime, mystery, and murder from the genre’s founding century With stories by Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum, Edith Wharton, Stephen Crane, and Jack London, The Best American Mystery Stories of the Nineteenth Century is an essential anthology of American letters. It’s a unique blend of beloved writers who contributed to the genre and forgotten names that pioneered the form, such as Anna Katharine Green, the godmother of mystery fiction, and the African-American writer Charles W. Chesnutt. Of course, Penzler includes “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” recognized as the first detective story, and with thirty-three stories spanning the years 1824–1899, nowhere else can readers find such a surprising, comprehensive take on the evolution of the American mystery story.

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