The Mammoth Book of Comic Crime

by Maxim Jakubowski (Editor)

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This anthology features old and new comedy crime writing in an explosive barrel of wit and wisecracking, featuring cack-handed villians, accident-prone good guys and a host of criminal characters who range from deadpan to dead stupid.

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Maxim Jakubowski
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168+ Works 4,594 Members
Maxim Jakubowski is a writer with over eighty anthologies to his credit, an editor, and a consultant for the International Mystery Film Festival. Following a distinguished career in publishing, he opened the world-famous Murder One Bookshop in London in 1988. He is a winner of the Anthony and Karel awards, a frequent TV and radio broadcaster, past show more crime columnist for the Guardian newspaper, and Literary Director of London's Crime Scene Festival. He is the Vice Chair of the Crime Writers' Association. show less

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Adrian, Jack (Contributor)
Aird, Catherine (Contributor)
Atkinson, Alex (Contributor)
Blake, Marc (Contributor)
Blincoe, Nicholas (Contributor)
Block, Lawrence (Contributor)
Bonner, Hilary (Contributor)
Brett, Simon (Contributor)
Brookmyre, Christopher (Contributor)
Caudwell, Sarah (Contributor)
Coward, Mat (Contributor)
Davies, David Stuart (Contributor)
Davis, Carol Anne (Contributor)
Edwards, Martin (Contributor)
Edwards, Ruth Dudley (Contributor)
Ehlers, Jurgen (Contributor)
Evans, Liz (Contributor)
Fantoni, Barry (Contributor)
Garratt, Peter T. (Contributor)
Goldstein-Jackson, Kevin (Contributor)
Gooden, Philip (Contributor)
Guttridge, Peter (Composer)
Keating, HRF (Contributor)
Lewin, Michael Z. (Contributor)
Lovesey, Peter (Contributor)
Mann, Antony (Contributor)
Miles, Keith (Contributor)
Myers, Amy (Contributor)
Peters, Elizabeth (Contributor)
Phillips, Mike (Contributor)
Pronzini, Bill (Contributor)
Rathbone, Julian (Contributor)
Ripley, Mike (Contributor)
Tope, Rebecca (Contributor)
Trow, MJ (Contributor)
Twain, Mark (Contributor)
Westlake, Donald E. (Contributor)
Wishart, David (Contributor)

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The Mammoth Book of Comic Crime

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Fiction and Literature, Mystery
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813 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English
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PN6071 .D45 .M273 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Collections of general literature
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