My Bookshelf The Best Private Eye Stories of the Year 2025Editor: Matt CoyleSeries Editor: Michael Bracken In the tradition of The Best American Mystery and Suspense and The Best Mystery Stories of the Year, The Best Private Eye Stories of the Year 2025 hopes to honour—what else?—the best private eye short stories published in 2024. Okay, the inaugural edition … Continue reading My Bookshelf: Best Private Eye Stories Of The Year 2025
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Mickey Spillane: This Time It’s Personal
By Max Allan Collins EDITOR'S NOTE: This piece originally appeared, in a slightly different form, as the introduction to 2001 New American Library edition of The Mike Hammer Collection, which collected I, the Jury, My Gun Is Quick and Vengeance Is Mine. It is reprinted here with the kind permission of the author, Max Allan … Continue reading Mickey Spillane: This Time It’s Personal
Murder in the Library: The Best American Mystery Stories/The Best American Mystery & Suspense
A perennial under the Thrilling Detective Christmas tree every year, The Best American Mystery Stories was an annual anthology of mystery stories published in United States magazines and anthologies that came out every autumn, edited by Otto Penzler (with Michele Slung riding shotgun) and a co-editor who changed every year. It established itself as arguably the premier annual … Continue reading Murder in the Library: The Best American Mystery Stories/The Best American Mystery & Suspense