{"product_id":"golden-age-bibliomysteries","title":"Golden Age Bibliomysteries","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFourteen classic mysteries in which literature is a matter of life or death — selected by Otto Penzler, the world's foremost authority on crime fiction.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOf crime fiction's many sub-genres, none is so reflexive and so intriguing as the “bibliomystery”: stories in which the crime is set, somehow, in the world of books. A book scout turns sleuth. A literary heir kills to preserve an estate. Rare manuscripts, antiquarian dealers, librarians and the stacks themselves become the scene.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume gathers the finest of them from the Golden Age of mystery — the decades between the two World Wars. In Vincent Starrett's \u003cem\u003eA Volume of Poe\u003c\/em\u003e, a bookseller is murdered. In Ellery Queen's \u003cem\u003eThe Adventure of the Three R's\u003c\/em\u003e, the detective tracks the disappearance of a Missouri author. And in \u003cem\u003eDeath Walks in Marble Halls\u003c\/em\u003e, a killer stalks the stacks of the New York Public Library.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlongside well-remembered names such as Cornell Woolrich and Anthony Boucher sit writers less read today — Carolyn Wells, James Gould Cozzens — and Penzler introduces each story himself, with the ease of someone who has spent a lifetime among both the books and the crimes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003ePerfect for\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnyone who buys their mysteries in an actual bookshop — these are mysteries \u003cem\u003eabout\u003c\/em\u003e bookshops\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFans of Agatha Christie, Anthony Horowitz and the British Library Crime Classics\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDipping into: fourteen complete stories, each with its own introduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAbout the editor\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOtto Penzler\u003c\/strong\u003e is the proprietor of the Mysterious Bookshop in New York, founder of the Mysterious Press, and creator of American Mystery Classics. He has won two Edgar Awards, the Ellery Queen Award and the Raven, and has edited more than seventy anthologies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAlso on our shelves\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eIts companion volume, \u003cem\u003eGolden Age Locked Room Mysteries\u003c\/em\u003e, also edited by Penzler.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52116957724888,"sku":"9781804999455","price":699.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0818\/1471\/6632\/files\/9781804999455.jpg?v=1785540878","url":"https:\/\/www.readersparadise.co\/products\/golden-age-bibliomysteries","provider":"Readers Paradise","version":"1.0","type":"link"}