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Amor Towles selects the best mystery short stories of the year, including tales by Andrew Child, Jeffrey Deaver, and T. C. Boyle.
Under the auspices of New York City's legendary mystery fiction specialty bookstore, The Mysterious Bookshop, and aided by Edgar Award-winning anthologist Otto Penzler, New York Times bestseller Amor Towles has selected the twenty most puzzling, most thrilling, and most mysterious short stories from the past year, collected now in one entertaining volume. The volume also contains a "bonus story" selected from the bookshop's rare book room, featuring a look into the history of this illustrious genre.
©2023 The Mysterious Press; Foreword copyright 2023 by Otto Penzler; Introduction copyright 2023 by Cetology, Inc. (P)2023 HighBridge, a division of Recorded BooksLos oyentes también disfrutaron...
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First several are Bleak, downers
- De Otis Lake en 04-07-25
De: Amor Towles - editor, y otros
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The Best American Short Stories 2019
- De: Anthony Doerr, Heidi Pitlor
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff, Heidi Pitlor, Scott Shepherd, y otros
- Duración: 16 h y 8 m
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#1 New York Times best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Anthony Doerr brings his“stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) to selecting The Best American Short Stories 2019. Doerr and the series editor, Heidi Pitlor, winnow down twenty stories out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.
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Another great year of Shorts
- De Michael en 01-19-24
De: Anthony Doerr, y otros
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The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2024
- De: S.A. Cosby, Steph Cha
- Narrado por: Stacy Gonzalez, Bill Andrew Quinn, John Pirhalla, y otros
- Duración: 16 h y 27 m
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In his introduction, guest editor S. A. Cosby observes that writing short stories is “a special skill that combines brevity with wit and cleverness and the hint of the existential malaise that imbues crime fiction with its gravitas.” The stories in this collection overflow with gravitas in the most unexpected ways: a cryptic note left on a windshield, a murder for hire meets a game of Mouse Trap, a swipe right on a dating app goes horribly wrong.
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Minimal suspense
- De tiffany bannerman en 05-29-25
De: S.A. Cosby, y otros
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Table for Two
- Fictions
- De: Amor Towles
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini, J. Smith-Cameron
- Duración: 13 h y 23 m
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Millions of Amor Towles fans are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories based in New York City and a novella set in Golden Age Hollywood. The New York stories, most of which take place around the year 2000, consider the fateful consequences that can spring from brief encounters and the delicate mechanics of compromise that operate at the heart of modern marriages.
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I adore Amor Towles!!
- De Deb Mitchell en 04-20-24
De: Amor Towles
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The Best Crime Stories Ever Told
- De: Dorothy L. Sayers - editor
- Narrado por: Robin Bloodworth, Suehyla El Attar
- Duración: 20 h y 55 m
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When acclaimed mystery writer Dorothy L. Sayers first began compiling anthologies of the best crime stories in the 1920s and ’30s, the genre was in the flush of its first golden age. While it is hard to imagine today - after every possible mystery plot has been told, retold, subverted, and played straight again by hundreds of writers over nearly a century - in Sayers’s day there were still twists that had never been seen, and machinations of crime that would shock even jaded Jazz Age fans.
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Lot of duds, some gems
- De Regina en 11-09-13
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The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2022
- De: Jess Walter - editor, Steph Cha - series editor
- Narrado por: Desean Terry, Lindsey Dorcus, Max Meyers, y otros
- Duración: 12 h y 52 m
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A collection of the year’s best mystery and suspense short fiction selected by #1 New York Times bestselling author and guest editor Jess Walter and series editor Steph Cha.
De: Jess Walter - editor, y otros
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Rules of Civility
- A Novel
- De: Amor Towles
- Narrado por: Rebecca Lowman
- Duración: 12 h y 4 m
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On the last night of 1937, 25-year-old Katey Kontent is in a second-rate Greenwich Village jazz bar when Tinker Grey, a handsome banker, happens to sit down at the neighboring table. This chance encounter and its startling consequences propel Katey on a year-long journey into the upper echelons of New York society - where she will have little to rely upon other than a bracing wit and her own brand of cool nerve.
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Bright Young Things in a Dark World
- De Michele Kellett en 08-13-12
De: Amor Towles
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The Big Book of Victorian Mysteries
- De: Otto Penzler - editor
- Narrado por: Rachael Beresford, Stephen Bowlby, Dan Calley
- Duración: 37 h y 23 m
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Edgar Award winner Otto Penzler returns with a new anthology of exhilarating mysteries, assembling Victorian society's lords and ladies and most miserable miscreants. Behind the velvet curtains of horse-drawn carriages and amid the soft glow of the gaslights are the detectives and bobbies sniffing out the safecrackers and petty purloiners who plague everything from the soot-covered side streets of London to the opulent manors of the countryside. Brush off your dinner jackets and straighten out your ball gowns for these exciting, glitzy mysteries.
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Good to listen to over the holidays
- De Linda Conover en 01-01-23
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The Best American Short Stories 2024
- De: Lauren Groff, Heidi Pitlor
- Narrado por: Christina Delaine, Vikas Adam, Joniece Abbott-Pratt, y otros
- Duración: 17 h y 40 m
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“There have never been as many exquisitely built stories in existence than there are now,” proclaims guest editor Lauren Groff in her introduction. This abundance led to a volume of robust stories with the nerve to push against narrative expectations. The Best American Short Stories 2024 boasts a collection of twenty stories that “buzz with their own strange logic.” Daring and resonant, the stories in this volume invite in Groff “a feeling that both the author and I were simultaneously discovering something together.”
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Another great collection of short stories
- De Michael en 02-25-25
De: Lauren Groff, y otros
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Nothing Good Happens After Midnight
- A Suspense Magazine Anthology
- De: Jeffery Deaver - editor and contributor, Joseph Badal - contributor, Lindwood Barclay - contributor, y otros
- Narrado por: Matt Godfrey, Emily Sutton-Smith
- Duración: 10 h y 36 m
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Teaming up with New York Times best-selling author Jeffery Deaver, Suspense Magazine offers up a nail-biting anthology titled Nothing Good Happens After Midnight. This thrilling collection consists of 13 original short stories representing the genres of suspense/thriller, mystery, sci-fi/fantasy, and more.
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Short stories vs full length stories
- De Anonymous User en 12-18-21
De: Jeffery Deaver - editor and contributor, y otros
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The Best American Short Stories 2023
- De: Min Jin Lee, Heidi Pitlor
- Narrado por: Laura Copland, Jeena Yi, Pascale Armand, y otros
- Duración: 14 h y 59 m
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“Without stories, we cannot live well,” shares guest editor Min Jin Lee, describing how storytelling affects and nurtures readers. The Best American Short Stories 2023 features twenty pieces of short fiction that reflect a world full of fractured relationships, but also wondrous hope. A lifelong friendship may become a casualty of the Russia-Ukraine war. Rejected by his lover, a man seeks to reconcile with his family. Twitter users miraculously muster enough empathy to help a lost cat find a forever home.
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Another Great Year of Shorts
- De Michael en 01-18-24
De: Min Jin Lee, y otros
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The Best Short Stories 2023
- The O. Henry Prize Winners
- De: Lauren Groff - editor, Jenny Minton Quigley - editor
- Narrado por: Lauren Groff, full cast
- Duración: 15 h y 28 m
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Continuing a century-long tradition of cutting-edge literary excellence, this year's edition contains twenty prizewinning stories chosen from the thousands published in magazines over the previous year. Guest editor Lauren Groff has brought her own refreshing perspective to the prize, selecting stories by an engaging mix of celebrated names and emerging voices and including several stories in translation.
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Every story is overwhelmingly melancholy.
- De Jane S. en 10-31-23
De: Lauren Groff - editor, y otros
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The Lincoln Highway
- A Read with Jenna Pick (A Novel)
- De: Amor Towles
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini, Marin Ireland, Dion Graham
- Duración: 16 h y 39 m
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In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett's intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother, Billy, and head to California where they can start their lives anew. But when the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm have hidden themselves in the trunk of the warden's car.
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I'm totally opposite
- De Meaghan Bynum en 10-10-21
De: Amor Towles
great and varied collection of crime stories
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A great anthology
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Mysteries
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Loved the mystery variations and interesting storylines. Highly recommend
Very enjoyable!
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Pretty Good
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Not For Me
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