Manhattan Mysteries
by Bill Pronzini (Editor), Martin H. Greenberg (Editor), Carol-Lynn Rössel Waugh (Editor)
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Bill Pronzini was born in Petaluma, California on April 13, 1943. His first novel, The Stalker, was published in 1971. He is best known for his creation of the Nameless Detective Mystery series, as well as several westerns and novels of dark suspense. He has been a full time writer since 1969. He is also an active anthologist, having compiled more show more than 100 collections, most of which focus on mystery, western, and science fiction short stories. He has won numerous awards including three Shamus Awards and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Private Eye Mystery Writers of America. His book Snowbound received the Grand Prix de la Litterature Policiere, as the best crime novel published in France in 1988. Pronzini has established himself as a master of the Western novel as well as earning a name for himself in the dark fiction genre. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

Martin Harry Greenberg (March 1, 1941 - June 25, 2011) was an American academic and speculative fiction anthologist. In all, he compiled 1,298 anthologies. He founded Tekno Books, a packager of more than 2000 published books; he was also a co-founder of the Sci-Fi Channel. Some of his anthologies included: Past Imperfect (2001), Once Upon a Galaxy show more (2002) and Sirius: The Dog Star (2004). (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Manhattan Mysteries
- Original title
- Manhattan Mysteries
- Original publication date
- 1987
- Important places
- Manhattan, New York, New York, USA
- Disambiguation notice
- Contents:
- Introduction: Mysterious Island
- The Good Samaritan / Isaac Asimov
- Mom Sings an Aria / James Yaffe
- The Woman I Envied / George Baxt
- New York Blues / Cornell Woolrich
- Sma... (show all)ll Homicide / Ed McBain
- The Gentleman from Paris / John Dickson Carr
- The Lord of Central Park / Avram Davidson
- A Craving for Originality / Bill Pronzini
- The Day of the Bullet / Stanley Ellin
- The Crime of the Century / R. L. Stevens
- The Back Stairway / Hal Ellson
- The Hawk and the Dome of Hell / S. S. Rafferty
- The Beatings / Evan Hunter
- A Place of Her Own / Joyce Harrington
- The Medical Finger / Ellery Queen
- The Corpse in the Statue of Liberty / William Irish
- The Cop and the Anthem / O. Henry
- Jericho and the Cardboard Box / Hugh Pentecost
- The Man Who Came Back / Edward D. Hoch
- Hildegarde Withers Is Back / Stuart Palmer
- The Quality of Mercy / Eleazar Lipsky
- Murder in One Scene / Q. Patrick
- The Missing Man / Katherine MacLean
- The Garrulous Garrity Grand Scam / Francis M. Nevins, Jr.
- God Save the Mark: A Novel / Donald E. Westlake
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, Mystery
- DDC/MDS
- 813.0872 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English By type Genre fiction Adventure fiction Mystery fiction
- LCC
- PS648 .D4 .M36 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Collections of American literature Prose (General)
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