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An unparalleled treasury of crime mystery and murder from the genres 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 Its 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 nowhere else can readers find such a surprising comprehensive take on the evolution of the American mystery story.
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Otto Penzler is the proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop (www.mysteriousbookshop.com) in New York City and is regarded as the world's foremost authority on crime, mystery and suspense fiction. He founded The Mysterious Press in 1975, which he later sold to Warner Books (1989) . He reacquired the imprint in 2010 and it now publishes original books as an imprint at Grove/Atlantic, and both original works and classic crime fiction through MysteriousPress.com (www.mysteriouspress.com) , in partnership with Open Road Integrated Media.Penzler is a prolific editor, and has won two Edgar Awards, for Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection in 1977 and The Lineup in 2010. The Mystery Writers of America awarded him the prestigious Ellery Queen Award in 1994 and the Raven--the group's highest non-writing award--in 2003.
