The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year: 2024 Audiobook By Otto Penzler - editor foreword, Anthony Horowitz - editor introduction cover art

The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year: 2024

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The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year: 2024

By: Otto Penzler - editor foreword, Anthony Horowitz - editor introduction
Narrated by: Kim Niemi, BJ Harrison
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Anthony Horowitz selects and introduces the best mystery stories from the past year, under the auspices of the world's oldest mystery fiction specialty bookshop.

From a pool of over 3,000 considered stories published last year—anything that touched on crime, mystery, and suspense, from venues as disparate as the Strand Magazine, Dark Yonder, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, the Bellevue Literary Review, and more—these are the twenty best, selected by series editor Otto Penzler and guest editor Anthony Horowitz.

The tales included cover a range of styles, highlighting the diversity of subjects and forms comprising the genre we call mystery fiction. Featuring a mixture of household names, masters of the short form, and newcomers to the field, the collection offers a variety that promises something for every listener. And it's all capped off by a vintage story from the first half of the previous century, sourced directly from the rare book room at the Mysterious Bookshop, the oldest mystery fiction specialty store in the world.

©2024 Otto Penzler (compilation); copyright 2024 by Otto Penzler (foreword); copyright 2024 by Anthony Horowitz (introduction) (P)2024 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books Amateur Sleuths Anthologies & Short Stories Mystery Private Investigators Fiction
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The stories in this collection are largely excellent. This is one of the this annual series of mysteries

Excellent Collection

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These authors are supposed to be the best but these stories are scattered with tropes and cliches. In Backwoods we get so much stumbling and tripping. Protagonist has three guns and knows the bad guys are coming to kill her. Oh oh hands shaking. Should I shoot the evil bad guys? Almost taped but no emergency escape. Give me a break.

In Night Kill oh oh my phone won’t turn on. At least they avoided the no signal trope. Call 911 and do t finish call. Pleasssssssseeeeeee!!!!

Enough stumbling and phone won’t work

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Poor stories - no imagination.

Lots of kudos in the intro to each story making the actual stories a bigger disappointment. Save your credit.

What a Disappointment!

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