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Twenty-six stories personally selected by Bill Pronzini from over a half centurys writing career, including a selection of standalone mysteries, plus stories featuring Carpenter & Quincannon and The Nameless Detective.
The selections here span a broad range of topics, themes, settings, and types of crime fiction. Some are grim, some upbeat, some wryly humorous; no two are alike. The one unifying factor in all of the stories is that theyre character-driven. People both good and badwho they are and what makes them act and react the way they doare the core ingredient of Pronzinis crime fiction.
Several of these have been honored in best of the year anthologies and have been nominated for awards. The Nameless Detective story, ���Cats-Paw, won a PWA Best Short Story Shamus Award. And two were filmed: Proof of Guilt was adapted for an episode of the British TV series Tales of the Unexpected, and Liars Dice was the basis for a 1995 made-for-U.S. TV film.
Here is Bill Pronzini at his best the best of the best!
Genre: Mystery
The selections here span a broad range of topics, themes, settings, and types of crime fiction. Some are grim, some upbeat, some wryly humorous; no two are alike. The one unifying factor in all of the stories is that theyre character-driven. People both good and badwho they are and what makes them act and react the way they doare the core ingredient of Pronzinis crime fiction.
Several of these have been honored in best of the year anthologies and have been nominated for awards. The Nameless Detective story, ���Cats-Paw, won a PWA Best Short Story Shamus Award. And two were filmed: Proof of Guilt was adapted for an episode of the British TV series Tales of the Unexpected, and Liars Dice was the basis for a 1995 made-for-U.S. TV film.
Here is Bill Pronzini at his best the best of the best!
Genre: Mystery
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