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"M" is for Mystery Homepage STORE INFO | AUTHOR EVENTS| What follows is a list of anthologies available at "M" is for Mystery. They are organized in alphabetical order by title. Signed books are signed on the title page or on the opening page of the author's contribution, as stated. All dust jackets are in transparent archival covers. To order any of the titles included on these pages, simply cut-and-paste the appropriate information and email us at info@MforMystery.com or call us at 650-401-8077. Outside the Bay Area, call us toll free at 888-405-8077. Our website also features pages devoted to contemporary collectibles, vintage and collectible paperbacks, recently published signed books, recently published British books, signed and unsigned, and paperback imports, both oversized and mass market. |
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American Crime Stories retold by John Escott : Escott, John . Oxford, UK: Oxford University, 1996. Later printing. Soft Cover. Signed by Block on first page of his story. Fine. Seven american crime stories by Lawrence Block, Stanley Ellin, Dashiel Hammett, Patricia Highsmith, John Lutz, Nancy Pickard, and Mary Roberts Rinehart, retold by John Escott. $9.00 Baltimore Noir : Lippman, Laura, editor . US: Akashic, 2006. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Fine. Anthology. One of the "Noir" series set in various locales. Original stories by Tim Cockey, Dan Fesperman, Rob Hiaasen, Sujata Massey, Ben Neihart, David Simon, Marcia Talley, and others. Trade paperback original. No dust jacket as issued. As new. $14.95 Best American Mystery Stories 2003 : Connelly, Michael, editor . US: Houghton Mifflin, 2003. First Paperback Edition. Soft Cover. Signed on by Mosley on the opening page of his story. Very Fine. Anthology. Trade paperback. No dust jacket as issued. As new. $13.00 Best American Mystery Stories 2006 : Turow, Scott, editor . US: Houghton Mifflin, 2006. First Paperback Edition. Soft Cover. Signed on by C.J. Box on the opening page of his story. Very Fine. Anthology. Trade paperback. No dust jacket as issued. As new. $14.00 Best American Mystery Stories 2007 : Hiaasen, Carl, editor . US: Houghton Mifflin, 2007. First Paperback Edition. Soft Cover. Signed on by Ridley Pearson on the opening page of his story. Very Fine. Anthology. Trade paperback. No dust jacket as issued. As new. $14.00 Best British Mysteries : Jakubowski, Maxim, editor . London, UK: Allison & Busby, 2003. First Edition. Hard Cover. Signed by Mina, Perry, and Robinson on the opening page of their stories. Very Fine / Very Fine dust jacket. Anthology featuring stories by the new wave of british crime writers: Stella Duffy, Ian Rankin, Denise Mina, Edward Marston, Amy Myers, Martin Edwards, Jerry Sykes, Robert Bernard, Carol Anne Davis, Simon Brett, Val McDermid, Mat Coward, Anne Perry, Peter Robinson, Judith Cutler, Marion Arnott, Bill James, Nicholas Royle, Martina Cole, Stephen Gallagher, Peter Lovesey, Sally Spedding, David Williams, John Harvey, and Peter Turnbull. $35.00 Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps: Penzler, Otto, editor . US: Black Lizard, 2007. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Fine. Anthology. 1,150 pages of "the best crime stories from the golden age of the '20s, '30s and '40s," most from Dime Detective, Detective Fiction Weekly and Black Mask, the cream of the 500 or so cheaply produced magazines that proliferated on newsstands before World War II. Trade paperback original. No dust jacket as issued. $25.00 Blood On Their Hands : Block, Lawrence, editor . US: Berkley, 2003. First Edition. Hard Cover. Signed by Bowen on the opening page of her story. Very Fine / Very Fine dust jacket. Anthology. "Explore the furies and temptations that can drive ordinary citizens to the wrong side of the law in 19 suspenseful stories" by Brendan DuBois, Noreen Ayres, Shelley Costa, Tom Savage, Tracy Knight, Aileen Schumacher, Elaine Viets, G. Miki Hayden, Elaine Togneri, Henry Slesar, William E. Chambers, Stefanie Matteson, Charlotte Hinger, Dan Crawford, Rhys Bowen, Mat Coward, Marcia Talley, Elizabeth Foxwell, and Jeremiah Healy. As new. $23.95 Bloodlines : Estep, Maggie, and Jason Starr, editors . US: Vintage, 2006. First Edition. Soft Cover. Signed by Starr on title page. Very Fine. Anthology. Horse racing stories by Jonathan Ames, Bill Barich, Ken Bruen, Lee Child, Steven Crist, Maggie Estep, Laura Hillenbrand, Joe R. Lansdale, Laura Lippman, William Nack, Meghan O'Rourke, John Schaefer, Scott Phillips, Jane Smiley, Jerry Stahl, Jason Starr, Charlie Stella, Wallace Stroby, James Surowiecki, and Daniel Woodrell. Trade paperback original. No dust jacket as issued. As new. $14.95 Book Of Spies : Furst, Alan, editor . US: Modern Library, 2004. First Paperback Edition. Soft Cover. Signed on by Furst on title page. Very Fine. Anthology. A sampler of spy writing covering three quarters of a century. Trade paperback. No dust jacket as issued. As new. $14.95 Century Of Mystery 1980 - 1989 : Muller, Marcia and Bill Pronzini, editors . US: MJF, 1996. First Edition. Hard Cover. Signed by Muller, Pronzini, and Smith on title page. Fine / Near Fine dust jacket. Anthology. Stories by Isaac Asimov, Robert Barnard, Lawrence Block, Susan Dunlap, Loren D. Estleman, Frederick Fosyth, Brian Garfield, Edward Gorman, George V. Higgins, Reginald Hill, Tony Hillerman, Edward D. Hoch, Clark Howard, Peter Lovesey, Marcia Mulller, Sara Paretsky, Bill Pronzini, Ruth Rendell, Julie Smith, and Janwillem van de Wetering. Dust jacket 1/8" tear and wrinkling at upper edge at spine, otherwise Fine / Fine. $29.00 Dead Man's Hand : Penzler, Otto, editor . US: Harcourt, 2007. First Edition. Hard Cover. Signed by Lescroart on the opening page of his story. New / New dust jacket. Anthology. Crime stories at the poker table by: Lorenzo Carcaterra, Christopher Coake, Michael Connelly, Jeffery Deaver, Sue Denymme, Parnell Hall, Sam Hill, Rupert Holmes, John Lescroart, Laura Lippman, Eric Van Lustbader, Walter Mosley, Joyce Carol Oates, Peter Robinson, and Alexander McCall Smith. $25.00 Deadly Bride : Gorman, Ed, and Martin H. Greenberg, editors . US: Carroll & Graf, 2007. First Edition. Soft Cover. Signed by Jance on the opening page of her story. New. Anthology. The best crime stories of 2005 by: Simon Brett, Stanley Cohen, Jeffery Deaver, James W. Hall, Kim Harrington, Jeremiah Healy, Wendy Hornsby, J.A. Jance, Robert Levinson, Mike MacClean, Neal Marks, Craig McDonald, Rick Mofina, David Morrell, Sharan Newman, Anne Perry, Nance Pickard, Sue Pike, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Marcia Talley, Peter Tremayne, and F. Paul Wilson. $16.95 Death Do Us Part : New Stories About Love, Lust, and Murder : Coben, Harlan, editor . US: Back Bay, 2006. First Edition. Hard Cover. Signed by Maleeny, Hockensmith, and Pearson, on the first page of his story. Very Fine / Very Fine dust jacket. An anthology of relationship oriented mysteries by Jeff Abbott, Charles Ardai, Jay Brandon, Lee Child, Harlan Coben, Brendan Dubois, Jim Fusilli, Bonnie Hearn Hill, Steve Hockensmith, William Kent Krueger, Laura Lippman, Tim Maleeny, Rick McMahan, P.J. Parrish, Ridley Pearson, Tom Savage, R.L. Stine, Charles Todd, and Tim Wohlforth. As new. $30.00 Fresh Blood : Ripley, Mike and Maxim Jakubowski, editors . London, UK: Bloodlines, 1996. First Edition. Soft Cover. Signed by Rankin on the opening page of his story. Fine. Anthology. Short stories by the new wave of british crime writers: Nicholas Blincoe, John Harvey, Stella Duffy, Russell James, Maxim Jakubowski, Mark Timlin, Ian Rankin, Derek Raymond, Joe Canzius, John B. Spencer, Denise Danks, Graeme Gordon, Mike Ripley, and Chaz Brenchley. Pages browning slightly. Trade paperback original. No dust jacket as issued. $15.95 Greatest Hits : Randisi, Robert J., editor . US: Carroll & Graf, 2006. First Paperback Edition. Soft Cover. Very Fine. Anthology. Original stories of assassins, hit men, and hired guns by Jeff Abbott, Lawrence Block, Lee Child, Max Allan Collins, Jeffery Deaver, Ed Gorman, Paul Guyot, James W. Hall, John Harvey, Christine Matthews, Marcus Pelegrimas, Robert J. Randisi, Barbara Seranella, Jenny Siler, and Kevin Wignall. Trade paperback. No dust jacket as issued. As new. $15.95 Hard Boiled Brooklyn : Coleman, Reed Farrel, editor . US: Bleak House, 2006. First Edition. Soft Cover. Signed by Spiegelman on the first page of his story. Very Fine. Anthology. Dark stories that "scream Brooklyn" by Peter Blauner, Ken Bruen, Maggie Estep, Jim Fusilli, Gabriel Cohen, Michele Martinez, Ralph Pezzullo, S.J. Rozan, Tim Sheard, Peter Spiegelman, Jason Starr, Charlie Stella, and Joseph Wallace. Trade paperback original. No dust jacket as issued. As new. $15.95 Hell of a Woman - An Anthology of Female Noir : Abbott, Megan, editor . US: Busted Flush, 2007. First Edition. Soft Cover. Signed by Abbott, contributors Corbett, Faust, Gran, Muller, Read, and publisher David Thompson. New. Anthology. Published simultaneously with hard cover. Original stories by: Ken Bruen, David Corbett, Christa Faust, Stona Fitch, Sara Gran, Allan Guthrie, Libby Fischer Hellmann, Vicki Hendricks, Naomi Hirahara, Charlie Huston, Annette Meyers, Donna Moore, Eddie Muller, Vin Packer, Rebecca Pawel, Cornelia Read, S. J. Rozan, Sandra Scoppettone, Zoe Sharp, Sarah Weinman, and Daniel Woodrell. $18.00 Interrogations : Jordan, Jon, editor . US: Mystery One Books, 2004. First Edition. Soft Cover. Signed by Jordan, Billingham, Black, Connolly, Lippman, Rankin, Robinson, Rozan and Seranella. Very Fine. Interviews with crime fiction writers including Colin Bateman, Mark Billingham, Stephen Booth, John Connolly, Laura Lippman, Val McDermid, George Pelecanos, Ian Rankin, Peter Robinson, S. J. Rozan and Barbara Seranella. Trade paperback original. No dust jacket as issued. As new. $19.00 Interrogations : Jordan, Jon, editor . US: Mystery One Books, 2004. First Edition. Soft Cover. Signed by Jordan, Black, Connolly, Lippman, Pelecanos, Robinson, and Seranella. Very Fine. Interviews with crime fiction writers including Colin Bateman, Mark Billingham, Stephen Booth, John Connolly, Laura Lippman, Val McDermid, George Pelecanos, Ian Rankin, Peter Robinson, S. J. Rozan and Barbara Seranella. Trade paperback original. No dust jacket as issued. As new. $19.00 Interrogations : Jordan, Jon, editor . US: Mystery One Books, 2004. First Edition. Soft Cover. Signed by Jordan, Black, Connolly, Doolittle, Lippman, Pelecanos, Robinson, and Seranella. Very Fine. Interviews with crime fiction writers including Colin Bateman, Mark Billingham, Stephen Booth, John Connolly, Laura Lippman, Val McDermid, George Pelecanos, Ian Rankin, Peter Robinson, S. J. Rozan and Barbara Seranella. Trade paperback original. No dust jacket as issued. As new. $19.00 Like A Charm : Slaughter, Karin, editor . US: William Morrow, 2004. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine / Near Fine dust jacket. Two verticle creases run the length of the front flap. $22.00 Matter Of Crime Volume 4 : Bruccoli, Matthew J. and Richard Layman, editors . US: Harcourt Brace Janovich, 1988. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine. Short stories by various authors, including James Ellroy and Andrew Vachss. Trade paperback. No dust jacket as issued. Heavy vinyl protective cover. $15.00 Meeting Across The River : Kaye, Jessica and Richard J. Brewer, editors . US: Bloomsbury, 2005. First Edition. Soft Cover. Signed by Box and Brewer. Very Fine. Stories inspired by the haunting Bruce Springsteen Song by Eric Garcia, William Kent Krueger, Pam Houston, C.J. Box, Gregg Hurwitz, Michael John Richardson, Randy Michael Signor, Richard J. Brewer, Steve Hamilton, Peter David, Eddie Muller, Aimee Liu, Phillip Reed, Barbara Seranella, Cara Black, David Corbett, Paul Charles, Wallace Stroby, Anthony Rudel, and Jessica Kaye. Trade paperback original. No dust jacket as issued. As new. $14.95 Men From Boys : Harvey, John, editor . US: Dark Alley, 2003. First US Edition. Soft Cover. Signed by Deaver, Robinson and Winslow on the opening pages of their stories. Very Fine. Anthology. "17 masters of crime and suspense explore what it means to be a son ... father ... man." Stories by Lawrence Block, Andrew Coburn, Michael Connelly, Jeffery Deaver, John Harvey, Reginald Hill, Bill James, Dennis Lehane, Bill Moody, George Pelecanos, Peter Robinson, James Sallis, John Straley, Brian Thompson, Don Winslow, and Daniel Woodrell. Trade paperback. No dust jacket as issued. As new. $13.95 More Great Tales Of Crime & Detection : Haining, Peter, editor . US: Chartwell, 1994. First US Edition. Hard Cover. Fine / Fine dust jacket. Anthology. 30 short stories featuring the world's most famous detectives including Edgar Wallace, Craig Rice, Jack Webb, Eliot Ness, Ed McBain, and others. $8.00 Murder Most Crafty : Bruce, Maggie, editor . US: Berkley Prime Crime, 2005. First Edition. Hard Cover. Signed by Massey on first page of her story. Very Fine / Very Fine dust jacket. A collection of homicidal handicrafts by Susan Wittig Albert, Maggie Bruce, Jan Burke, Dorothy Cannell, Susan Dunlap, Monica Ferris and Denise Williams, Parnell Hall, Victoria Houston, Judith Kelman, Margaret Maron, Sujata Massey, Tim Meyers, Sharan Newman, Gillian Roberts, and Paula L. Woods. As new. $21.95 Murder Most Feline : Gorman, Ed, Martin H. Greenberg, and Larry Segriff, editors . US: Cumberland, 2001. First Paperback Edition. Hard Cover. Very Fine. Anthology. Stories by Ann Barrett, Dulcy Brainard, Gary A. Braunbeck, Jon L. Breen, Richard Chizmar and Barry Hoffman, Mat Coward, Matthew J. Costello, Bill Crider, Cathrine Dain, Janet Dawson, Parnell Hall, Jeremiah Healy, Jan Grape, Tracy Knight, Dick Lochte, and Shirley Rousseau Murphy. Trade paperback. No dust jacket as issued. As new. $14.95 Murder On The Run : Adams Round Table, editors . US: Berkley, 1998. First Edition. Hard Cover. Signed by Block on the opening page of his story. Very Fine / Very Fine dust jacket. Anthology. 11 original stories "of the desperate days and nerve-shattering nights of criminals on the run" by Lawrence Block, Mary Higgins Clark, Stanley Cohen, Dorothy Salisbury Davis, Mickey Friedman, Joyce Harrington, Judith Kelman, Warren Murphy, Justin Scott, Peter Straub, and Whitley Strieber. As new. $21.00 New Crimes 2 : Jakubowski, Maxim, editor . US: Carroll & Graf, 1991. First US Edition. Hard Cover. Signed by Pronzini on the opening page of his story. Near Fine / Fine dust jacket. Anthology. Stories by Ed Gorman, H.R.F. Keating, Bill Pronzini, Andrew Vachss, Ed McBain, Charles Willeford, and others. Pages browning slightly. $17.00 Northern Blood : Edwards, Martin, editor . London, UK: Flambard, 1995. First Edition, First State. Soft Cover. Signed by McDermid on the opening page of her story. Very Fine. Anthology. 17 crime stories from the north of England by Robert Barnard, Chaz Brenchley, Ann Cleeves, Barbara Crossley, Eileen Dewhurst, Martin Edwards, Roger Forsdyke, Reginald Hill, Margaret Lewis, Peter Lewis, Val McDerMid, Kay Mitchell, Stephen Murray, Alan Stewart, Peter N. Walker, Barbara Whitehead, and Douglas Wynn. Also includes to interviews with Ngaio Marsh.Trade paperback original. No dust jacket as issued. As new. $11.00 Shades Of Black : Bland, Eleanor Taylor, editor . US: Berkley Prime Crime, 2004. First Paperback Edition. Soft Cover. Signed by Canterbury, Greer, Haywood, and Phillips on the title page. Very Fine. Anthology. Crime and mystery stories by African-American authors. Trade paperback. No dust jacket as issued. As new. $14.00 Speaking Of Greed : Block, Lawrence, editor . US: Cumberland, 2001. First Edition. Hard Cover. Signed by Robinson on the opening page of his story. Very Fine / Very Fine dust jacket. Anthology. 20 "stories of envious desire" by Doug Allyn, Robert Bloch, Lawrence Block, Dorothy Cannell, Bill Crider, Matt Coward, Brenden DuBois, Sue Dunlap, Ed Gorman, Jeremiah Healy, Gabrielle Kraft, David Morrell, Marcia Muller, Helen Nielsen, Bill Pronzini, Jack Ritchie, Gillian Roberts, Peter Robinson, John F. Suter, and F. Paul Wilson. As new. $24.95 Speaking Of Lust : Block, Lawrence, editor . US: Cumberland, 2001. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Fine / Very Fine dust jacket. Anthology. 20 "stories of forbidden desire" by Clive Barker, Paul Bishop, Lawrence Block, Simon Brett, Gil Brewer, James Crumley, Loren D. Estleman, Ed Gorman, James W. Hall, Jeremiah Healy, Joan Hess, John Lutz, Richard Marsten, Joyce Carol Oates, Marthayn Pelegrimas, Thomas S. Roche, Julian Symons, and Robert Weinberg. As new. $24.95 These Guns for Hire : Konrath, J.A., editor . US: Bleak House, 2006. First Edition. Hard Cover. Signed by Benson, Black, Bruen, Collins, Galligan, Hellman, Hyzy, Konrath, Sakey, and Walker on title page. Very Fine / Very Fine dust jacket. Anthology. Experience some very bad people, courtesy of the best writers in the mystery thriller genre. They're all here. Cold blooded mobsters (Rob Kantner, Victor Gischler,) series characters from novels (David Morrell, Lawrence Block, Max Allan Collins,) humorous killers (Brian Wiprud, Jeff Strand,) hit women (Libby Fischer Hellmann, MJ Rose,) and even some forays into the supernatural (Jay Bonansinga, Robert W. Walker.) Also stories by Raymond Benson, Michael A. Black, Ken Bruen, John Galligan, Julie Hyzy, J.A. Konrath, Benjamin LeRoy, and Marcus Sakey. As new. $27.95
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