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In my humble opinion, it beats Lonesome Dove all to. Our Best Classic Crime Marple: Twelve New Stories Marple: Twelve New Stories Agatha Christie Lady Joker Lady Joker Kaoru Takamura And Then There Were. Van Dine’s first Philo Vance mystery, “The Benson Murder Case” and Cornell Woolrich’s suspense-filled, “Deadline at Dawn,” and our own Library of Congress’s Crime Classics program has reissued novels as varied as Rudolph Fisher’s pioneering African American mystery, “The Conjure-Man Dies,” and Hillary Waugh’s genre-establishing police procedural, “Last Seen Wearing.” Yet other imprints worth checking out include Crippen & Landru, which specializes in short stories Stark House Press, Coachwhip Books and Altus Press’s Black Mask Library, all of which largely focus on pulp fiction and Dean Street Press, which reprints traditional mysteries, often with exceptional introductions by Curtis Evans or Tony Medawar. If you’ve never read Keigo Higashino, you should dive into everything that’s been translated. Once considered a classic, this Western epic deserves to be on the mantle with the best of Larry McMurtry.

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For instance, Christianna Brand’s ultra-ingenious “Death of Jezebel” is among the most recent offerings in the British Library Crime Classics series overseen by Edwards himself, Penzler Publishing’s wide-ranging American Mystery Classics has recently issued Frances Crane’s Southwestern whodunit, “The Turqoise Shop,” S.S. Happily, many once out-of-print titles are now readily available because of several enlightened publishing programs.

In the end, though, a magisterial work like “The Life of Crime” does more than just inform, entertain and provoke, it also sends new readers back to old books. Oh, and FYI prices are accurate and items in stock as of time of publication.

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