The Best American Mystery Stories 2010

Курт Воннегут, Деннис Лихэйн, Джон Дюфрейн, Ли Чайлд, Филипп Марголин, Mike Wiecek, Matt Bell, Линдси Фэй, Gary Alexander, R. A. Allen, Mary Stewart Atwell, Jay Brandon, Phyllis Cohen, Lynda Leidiger, Chris Muessig, Albert Tucher, Ryan Zimmerman, Гар Энтони Хейвуд, Джозеф Уоллес, Дуг Аллин, Джон Лэнд

Серия: The Best American Mystery Stories, книга 2010

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Every year, when I sit down to write the foreword to the new edition of The Best American Mystery Stories, two thoughts leap to mind. The first is: what can I write about that I haven’t written about in the previous volumes? The second is: does anyone actually read it anyway, or do they (wisely) go straight to the fiction?

Well, just in case this book has found its way into the hands of a completist reader, here are a few things you should know.

• Mystery is a very broad genre that includes any story in which a crime (usually murder) or the threat of a crime (creating suspense) is central to the plot or theme. Detective stories are one subgenre, others being crime (often told from the point of view of the criminal), suspense (impending man-made calamity), espionage (crimes against the state, which potentially have more victims than a single murder), and such sub-subgenres as police procedurals, historicals, humor, puzzles, private eyes, noir, and so on.

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