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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Christmas Crimes at the Mysterious Bookshop

Christmas Crimes at the Mysterious Bookshop

Penzler, Otto

Hardcover

Mystery & Thriller

Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN10: 1613165722
ISBN13: 9781613165720
Publisher: Mysterious Press
Published: Oct 22 2024
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.90
Height: 1.20 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.10
Language: English
Twelve festive crime stories set in New York City's beloved mystery bookstore.

The oldest mystery specialty bookstore in the world, The Mysterious Bookshop, has for most of its forty-five-year history commissioned an original short story as a holiday gift for its customers. Written exclusively for the store and never published elsewhere, the stories were given as a holiday gift to its customers as a thank you for their business, handed out or mailed between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day.

The prompt for the story requires three elements: that it be set at Christmastime, that it involve a crime of some kind, or the suspicion of one, and that it be set at least partially in the bookstore. And from these loose structural guidelines, diverse tales took flight. The dozen tales included in this volume are among the finest to be produced in this annual tradition, sure to charm any reader looking for a holiday-themed escape. Included herein are the ingenious Snowflake Time by Laura Lippman; Lyndsay Faye's tale of vengeance A Midnight Clear; the challenging brainteaser, A Christmas Puzzle, by Ragnar Jónasson; Hester's Gift, an impossible crime story by Tom Mead; the suspenseful The Christmas Party by Jeffery Deaver; Thomas Perry's hilarious comedy of errors, Here We Come A-Wassailing; and other tales appropriate for the season, collected and introduced by Otto Penzler. The result is, objectively speaking, the finest stocking stuffer that a mystery fan could hope to find.

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