TY  - BOOK
TI  - The best American mystery stories 1997
SN  - 395835844
AV  - PS 648.D4 .B464 1997
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Houghton Mifflin
KW  - Detective and mystery stories, American
N1  - ISSN 1094-8384--T.p. verso
N2  - For many years, some of the most vital, creative, and exciting fiction published in America has been in the field of mystery, crime, and suspense. Now Robert B. Parker and Otto Penzler - both Edgar winners - have assembled the best that 1997 had to offer: twenty terrific, titillating tales from such masters of the genre as Elmore Leonard, Elizabeth George, James Crumley, Jonathan Kellerman, and Andrew Klavan, from newcomers like Brad Watson, and from well-known literary writers such as Joyce Carol Oates and Michael Malone
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