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The Best American Noir of the Century is a collection of 39 short stories selected by author James Ellroy and Otto Penzler, who is also the series editor of the annual The Best American Mystery Stories. The two leading names in mystery mined one hundred years of writing (1910–2010) to create this heart-stopping, nearly 800-page book that spans noir’s 1920s-era infancy, with gems like James M. Cain’s “Pastorale”; and its post-war heyday, with giants like Mickey Spillane and Evan Hunter; to diverse contemporary incarnations that include Elmore Leonard, Patricia Highsmith, Joyce Carol Oates, Dennis Lehane, and William Gay.
A graduate of the University of Michigan, in 1975 Otto Penzler (1942) founded The Mysterious Press publishing company, and later Otto Penzler Books, both dedicated entirely to mystery and crime fiction. In 1982, in New York City, he opened The Mysterious Bookshop, the oldest and largest mystery specialist bookstore in the world. A distinguished editor of mystery fiction, Penzler has edited over 50 anthologies of crime fiction, including the prestigious Best American Mystery Stories since 1997. He co-wrote the Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection (1977) and authored 101 Greatest Movies of Mystery and Suspense (2000). For five years he wrote a popular weekly fiction column in the New York Sun and in 2002 hosted a TV series of great mystery films for Turner Classic Movies. His many honors include two Edgar Allen Poe Awards and the Ellery Queen Award.
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07/12/2011 ore 16:00
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