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The Best American Mystery Stories of the 19th Century
By Otto Penzler.
The Best American Series.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Published 2014.
Hardcover.
ISBN-10: 0544302222
ISBN-13: 978-0544302228
Description:
An unparalleled treasury of crime, mystery, and murder from
the genre’s founding century.
With stories by Washington Irving, Nathaniel
Hawthorne, Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum, Edith Wharton, Stephen
Crane, and Jack London, The Best American Mystery Stories of the Nineteenth
Century is an essential anthology of American letters. It’s a unique blend
of beloved writers who contributed to the genre and forgotten names that
pioneered the form, such as Anna Katharine Green, the godmother of mystery
fiction, and the African-American writer Charles W. Chesnutt. Of course,
Penzler includes “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” recognized as the first
detective story, and with thirty-three stories spanning the years 1824–1899,
nowhere else can readers find such a surprising, comprehensive take on the
evolution of the American mystery story.
