Random House New Releases - Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Short Stories

The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries by Otto Penzler

2013-10-22T00:30:00-05:00

The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries
Edited by Otto Penzler

eBook, 1000 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Short Stories; Fiction - Short Stories (single author); Fiction - Anthologies (multiple authors) | $12.99 | 978-0-345-80299-6 (0-345-80299-3)

The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries by Otto Penzler

2013-10-22T00:30:00-05:00

The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries
Written by Otto Penzler

Trade Paperback, 1040 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Short Stories; Fiction - Short Stories (single author); Fiction - Anthologies (multiple authors) | $25.00 | 978-0-345-80298-9 (0-345-80298-5)

Nightmare Range by Martin Limon

2013-09-24T00:30:00-05:00

Nightmare Range The Collected Sueno and Bascom Short Stories
Written by Martin Limon

Hardcover, 400 pages | Soho Crime | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Short Stories; Fiction - Hispanic & Latino; Fiction - War | $26.95 | 978-1-61695-332-4 (1-61695-332-2)

Twenty years ago, Martin Limón published his first mystery story featuring Sergeant George Sueño, a young Mexican American army detective stationed on the US 8th Army base in South Korea in the early 1970s, the heart of the Cold War. George and his investigating partner, the rowdy and short-fused Sergeant Ernie Bascom, are assigned cases in which the 8th Army has come into conflict with local Korean law enforcement—often incidents in which American soldiers, who are not known for being on their best behavior in their Asian host country, have committed a crime. George Sueño's job is partially to solve crimes, but mostly to cover top brass's backside and make sure the US Army doesn't look bad. Thoughtful, observant George, who is conversant in Korean, constantly faces difficult choices about whether to follow his orders or his conscience.

Nine critically acclaimed novels later, Soho Crime is releasing a collection of Martin Limón's award-winning short stories featuring Sergeants Sueño and Bascom. The stories within have been published over the last twenty years in a variety of magazines, mostly in Alfred Hitchcock, but have never before been available in book form. This beautifully produced limited-edition hardcover volume is sure to attract both critical attention and to appeal to collectors. A must-have for literary mystery readers.

Nightmare Range by Martin Limon

2013-09-24T00:30:00-05:00

Nightmare Range The Collected Sueno and Bascom Short Stories
Written by Martin Limon

eBook | Soho Crime | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Short Stories; Fiction - Hispanic & Latino; Fiction - War | $26.95 | 978-1-61695-333-1 (1-61695-333-0)

Twenty years ago, Martin Limón published his first mystery story featuring Sergeant George Sueño, a young Mexican American army detective stationed on the US 8th Army base in South Korea in the early 1970s, the heart of the Cold War. George and his investigating partner, the rowdy and short-fused Sergeant Ernie Bascom, are assigned cases in which the 8th Army has come into conflict with local Korean law enforcement--often incidents in which American soldiers, who are not known for being on their best behavior in their Asian host country, have committed a crime. George Sueño's job is partially to solve crimes, but mostly to cover top brass's backside and make sure the US Army doesn't look bad. Thoughtful, observant George, who is conversant in Korean, constantly faces difficult choices about whether to follow his orders or his conscience.

Nine critically acclaimed novels later, Soho Crime is releasing a collection of Martin Limón's award-winning short stories featuring Sergeants Sueño and Bascom. The stories within have been published over the last twenty years in a variety of magazines, mostly in Alfred Hitchcock, but have never before been available in book form. This beautifully produced limited-edition hardcover volume is sure to attract both critical attention and to appeal to collectors. A must-have for literary mystery readers.

Mortal Lock by Andrew Vachss

2013-05-07T00:30:00-05:00

Mortal Lock
Written by Andrew Vachss

Trade Paperback, 400 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Short Stories; Fiction - Thrillers; Fiction - Suspense | $15.95 | 978-0-307-95083-3 (0-307-95083-2)

A VINTAGE CRIME/BLACK LIZARD ORIGINAL

A hit man stalks his mark at a race track. A sociopath crosses every moral boundary to become a published author. An ex-mercenary obsessively defends his “perimeter” from a dangerous interloper. A man for hire grudgingly accepts help from a teenage girl to track an online predator. In a dystopian future, young people struggle for survival underground, forming themselves into vicious gangs with only the graffiti of the “last journalists” accepted as truth. Andrew Vachss collects twenty tight, powerful stories—all from the past decade of his career, including some now published for the first time—along with an original screenplay. Together, they form Mortal Lock, a searing portrait of the criminal underworld, with both its depravity and humanity on display.

Mortal Lock by Andrew Vachss

2013-05-07T00:30:00-05:00

Mortal Lock
Written by Andrew Vachss

eBook, 300 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Short Stories; Fiction - Thrillers; Fiction - Suspense | $9.99 | 978-0-307-95084-0 (0-307-95084-0)

Bruno and the Carol Singers by Martin Walker

2012-12-18T00:30:00-05:00

Bruno and the Carol Singers A Christmas Mystery of the French Countryside
Written by Martin Walker

eBook | Knopf | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Short Stories; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural; Fiction - Mystery & Detective | $0.99 | 978-0-385-35031-0 (0-385-35031-7)

Martin Walker has created a delightful, internationally acclaimed series of mysteries featuring Bruno, chief of police of the small French village of St. Denis.

“A gentle reminder to slow down and smell the grapes” says The New York Times Book Review.

In this exclusive eBook, St. Denis is experiencing its coldest winter in years—bringing the promise of snow and shared chocolats chauds in the village’s cafés—and Bruno is occupied with his Christmastime duties. From organizing carolers to playing Father Christmas for the local schoolchildren, Bruno has his hands full . . . at least until some funds raised for charity go missing. Then it’s up to Bruno to save the day (and perhaps manage a Christmas miracle) in this charming holiday installment of Walker’s best-selling series.

Crime and Guilt by Carol Janeway

2012-07-10T00:30:00-05:00

Crime and Guilt Stories
Written by Ferdinand von Schirach
Translated by Carol Janeway

Trade Paperback, 304 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Crime; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Short Stories | $13.95 | 978-0-307-74093-9 (0-307-74093-5)

From Ferdinand von Schirach, one of Germany’s most prominent defense attorneys, comes a jolting debut collection of short stories that daringly brings to light the motivations stirring within the criminal mind. By turns witty and sorrowful, unflinchingly brutal and heartbreaking, the deeply affecting, quietly unnerving cases presented in Crime urge a closer examination of guilt and innocence.

In “Fähner,” a small-town physician and avid gardener betrays little emotion when he takes an ax to his wife’s head, an act that shocks the locals but provides a
long-awaited reprieve for the good doctor. Abbas, a Palestinian refugee who is cornered into a life of crime, finds true love and seemingly a saving grace with a beautiful student named Stefanie in “Summertime.” But when she is viciously murdered in a hotel room after having been paid to sleep with one of the country’s wealthiest men, is Abbas to blame or is it the man who seems to have it all? And in the startling story “Love,” a young man’s infatuation with his girlfriend takes a grisly turn as he comes to grips with his unconventional—and uncontrollable—impulses to truly know a woman.

“Guilt,” writes von Schirach, “always presents a bit of a problem.” In this beautifully nuanced and telling collection, guilt is indeed never as clear-cut as the crime, and justice is more nebulous still.

The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories by Keith Alan Deutsch

2012-05-09T00:30:00-05:00

The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories
Edited by Otto Penzler
Foreword by Otto Penzler
Introduction by Keith Alan Deutsch

eBook, 1136 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-Boiled; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Short Stories; Fiction - Mystery & Detective | $14.99 | 978-0-307-80825-7 (0-307-80825-4)

An unstoppable anthology of crime stories culled from Black Mask magazine the legendary publication that turned a pulp phenomenon into literary mainstream.

Black Mask was the apotheosis of noir. It was the magazine where the first hardboiled detective story, which was written by Carroll John Daly appeared. It was the slum in which such American literary titans like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler got their start, and it was the home of stories with titles like “Murder Is Bad Luck,” “Ten Carets of Lead,” and “Drop Dead Twice.” Collected here is best of the best, the hardest of the hardboiled, and the darkest of the dark of America’s finest crime fiction. This masterpiece collection represents a high watermark of America’s underbelly. Crime writing gets no better than this.

Featuring

   • Deadly Diamonds
   • Dancing Rats
   • A Prize Fighter Fighting for His Life
   • A Parrot that Wouldn’t Talk

Including

   • Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon as it was originally published
   • Lester Dent's Luck in print for the first time

From the Trade Paperback edition.

A Study in Sherlock by Alan Bradley

2011-10-25T00:30:00-05:00

A Study in Sherlock Stories inspired by the Holmes canon
Edited by Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger
Contribution by Lee Child, Neil Gaiman and Alan Bradley

Trade Paperback, 400 pages | Bantam | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Short Stories; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical; Fiction - Suspense | $15.00 | 978-0-8129-8246-6 (0-8129-8246-0)

BESTSELLING AUTHORS GO HOLMES—IN AN IRRESISTIBLE NEW COLLECTION edited by award-winning Sherlockians Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger

Neil Gaiman. Laura Lippman. Lee Child. These are just three of eighteen superstar authors who provide fascinating, thrilling, and utterly original perspectives on Sherlock Holmes in this one-of-a-kind book. These modern masters place the sleuth in suspenseful new situations, create characters who solve Holmesian mysteries, contemplate Holmes in his later years, fill gaps in the Sherlock Holmes Canon, and reveal their own personal obsessions with the Great Detective.

Thomas Perry, for example, has Dr. Watson tell his tale, in a virtuoso work of alternate history that finds President McKinley approaching the sleuth with a disturbing request; Lee Child sends an FBI agent to investigate a crime near today’s Baker Street—only to get a twenty-first-century shock; Jacqueline Winspear spins a story of a plucky boy inspired by the detective to make his own deductions; and graphic artist Colin Cotterill portrays his struggle to complete this assignment in his hilarious “The Mysterious Case of the Unwritten Short Story.”*

In perfect tribute comes this delicious collection of twisty, clever, and enthralling studies of a timeless icon.

Featuring stories from

Alan Bradley
Tony Broadbent
Jan Burke
Lionel Chetwynd
Lee Child
Colin Cotterill*
Neil Gaiman
Laura Lippman
Gayle Lynds & John Sheldon
Phillip & Jerry Margolin
Margaret Maron
Thomas Perry
S. J. Rozan
Dana Stabenow
Charles Todd
Jacqueline Winspear

*print-version only

A Study in Sherlock by Alan Bradley

2011-10-25T00:30:00-05:00

A Study in Sherlock Stories inspired by the Holmes canon
Edited by Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger
Contribution by Lee Child, Neil Gaiman and Alan Bradley

eBook, 400 pages | Bantam | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Short Stories; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical; Fiction - Suspense | $11.99 | 978-0-8129-8247-3 (0-8129-8247-9)

The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories by Keith Alan Deutsch

2010-09-21T00:30:00-05:00

The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories
Edited by Otto Penzler
Foreword by Otto Penzler
Introduction by Keith Alan Deutsch

Trade Paperback, 1136 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-Boiled; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Short Stories; Fiction - Mystery & Detective | $25.00 | 978-0-307-45543-7 (0-307-45543-2)

The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps by Otto Penzler

2008-12-24T00:30:00-05:00

The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps The Best Crime Stories from the Pulps During Their Golden Age--The '20s, '30s & '40s
Edited by Otto Penzler

eBook, 1168 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-Boiled; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Short Stories; Fiction - Mystery & Detective | $19.99 | 978-0-307-49416-0 (0-307-49416-0)

The biggest, the boldest, the most comprehensive collection of Pulp writing ever assembled.

Weighing in at over a thousand pages, containing over forty-seven stories and two novels, this book is big baby, bigger and more powerful than a freight train—a bullet couldn’t pass through it. Here are the best stories and every major writer who ever appeared in celebrated Pulps like Black Mask, Dime Detective, Detective Fiction Weekly, and more. These are the classic tales that created the genre and gave birth to hard-hitting detectives who smoke criminals like packs of cigarettes; sultry dames whose looks are as lethal as a dagger to the chest; and gin-soaked hideouts where conversations are just preludes to murder. This is crime fiction at its gritty best.

Including:

• Three stories by Raymond Chandler, Cornell Woolrich, Erle Stanley Gardner, and Dashiell Hammett.

• Complete novels from Carroll John Daly, the man who invented the hard-boiled detective, and Fredrick Nebel,

one of the masters of the form.

• A never before published Dashiell Hammett story.

• Every other major pulp writer of the time, including Paul Cain, Steve Fisher, James M. Cain, Horace McCoy, and many

many more of whom you’ve probably never heard.

• Three deadly sections–The Crimefighters, The Villains, and Dames–with three unstoppable introductions by Harlan Coben,

Harlan Ellison, and Laura Lippman

Featuring:

• Plenty of reasons for murder, all of them good.

• A kid so smart–he’ll die of it.

• A soft-hearted loan shark’s legman learning–the hard way–never to buy a strange blonde a hamburger.

• The uncanny “Moon Man” and his mad-money victims.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps by Otto Penzler

2007-11-06T00:30:00-05:00

The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps The Best Crime Stories from the Pulps During Their Golden Age--The '20s, '30s & '40s
Edited by Otto Penzler

Trade Paperback, 1168 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Hard-Boiled; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Short Stories; Fiction - Mystery & Detective | $25.00 | 978-0-307-28048-0 (0-307-28048-9)

The biggest, the boldest, the most comprehensive collection of Pulp writing ever assembled.

Including:

• Three stories by Raymond Chandler, Cornell Woolrich, Erle Stanley Gardner, and Dashiell Hammett.

• Complete novels from Carroll John Daly, the man who invented the hard-boiled detective, and Fredrick Nebel,

one of the masters of the form.

• A never before published Dashiell Hammett story.

• Every other major pulp writer of the time, including Paul Cain, Steve Fisher, James M. Cain, Horace McCoy, and many

many more of whom you’ve probably never heard.

• Three deadly sections–The Crimefighters, The Villains, and Dames–with three unstoppable introductions by Harlan Coben,

Harlan Ellison, and Laura Lippman

Featuring:

• Plenty of reasons for murder, all of them good.

• A kid so smart–he’ll die of it.

• A soft-hearted loan shark’s legman learning–the hard way–never to buy a strange blonde a hamburger.

• The uncanny “Moon Man” and his mad-money victims.

Hollywood Nocturnes by James Ellroy

2007-06-12T00:30:00-05:00

Hollywood Nocturnes
Written by James Ellroy

Trade Paperback, 240 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Short Stories | $12.95 | 978-0-307-27879-1 (0-307-27879-4)

Dig it. A famous musician-cum-draft dodger is plotting the perfect celebrity snatch–his own. An ex-con raging on revenge in High Darktown becomes a cop's worst nightmare. While chasing kidnappers, two cops stumble on an okie town as bloody as the O.K. Corral. A strongarm for Howard Hughes and mobster Mickey Cohen finds himself playing both ends against the middle, all for a murderously magnificent moll. This is L.A., Ellroy style–corrupt cops, goons with guns, rattling roadsters–and all in the staccato rhythm of the streets. Hollywood Nocturnes shows us the seedy side of glamorous Hollywood, laid out like a corpse in the morgue.

With These Hands by Keith Carradine

2002-04-30T00:30:00-05:00

With These Hands Selected Unabridged Stories
Written by Louis L'Amour
Read by Keith Carradine

Unabridged Audiobook Download | Random House Audio | Fiction - Westerns; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Short Stories | $12.50 | 978-0-553-75620-3 (0-553-75620-6)

The timeless fiction of Louis L'Amour is both unforgettable and undeniably American, deftly capturing the heroic bravery and intrepid spirit that make this nation great. L’Amour ’s legacy of work remains unparalleled, setting a standard of excellence that few other writers have matched. Now With These Hands pulls together some of L’Amour's very best work--eleven newly rediscovered stories that have never before appeared in a single volume.

WITH THESE HANDS

From a South Seas island paradise to the icy reaches of the Arctic, from the dark, gritty streets of urban America to the rugged landscape of the untamed West, the stories gathered in With These Hands combine razor-sharp characters with breathtaking action and historic detail. Here are tales of adventure, mystery, passion, suspense, and the Old West as only L’Amour can tell them. The result is a collection that profoundly echoes the highs and lows of the human experience, while proving that life’s most vital moments can occur when and where we least expect them.

All of the classic L’Amour themes are represented: honor, loyalty, and standing up for what’s right despite the odds. These dramatic stories grab hold of the reader with a power and immediacy unsurpassed by any other writer. An exotic island in the Coral Sea is transformed into a tropical nightmare when it’s taken over by a band of hijackers--and only a daredevil pilot can stop their brutal carnage. A former boxer blows the lid off a vicious crime ring--and finds that his worst enemy is not a thug with a gun but his own tenacious curiosity. A down-on-his-luck rancher discovers the key to his own redemption--and desperately hopes that his revelation has not come too late for him to win the one thing he wants most of all. A private eye navigates the twists and turns of a labyrinthine whodunit--and proves that the greatest risk to a man’s honor is his own greed.

The title story “With These Hands” is a powerful tale that celebrates the triumph of the human spirit, as an oil company executive finds himself the sole survivor of an Arctic plane crash. Fighting for his life against the perilous cold and looming starvation, he resists the temptation to surrender to death--only to discover a life-affirming strength he never knew he had.

Vivid in scope and displaying the diverse talents of a master storyteller, the stories in With These Hands are certain to be treasured by both old and new fans, celebrating the incomparable imagination of a timeless American author.

From the Hardcover edition.

Graveyard Shift by John Glover

2000-07-04T00:30:00-05:00

Graveyard Shift and Other Stories from Night Shift
Written by Stephen King
Read by John Glover

Unabridged Audiobook Download | Random House Audio | Fiction; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Short Stories | $10.95 | 978-0-553-75455-1 (0-553-75455-6)

Random House New Releases - Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Short Stories

The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries by Otto Penzler

The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries Edited by Otto Penzler

The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries by Otto Penzler

The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries Written by Otto Penzler

Nightmare Range by Martin Limon

Nightmare Range The Collected Sueno and Bascom Short StoriesWritten by Martin Limon

Nightmare Range by Martin Limon

Nightmare Range The Collected Sueno and Bascom Short StoriesWritten by Martin Limon

Mortal Lock by Andrew Vachss

Mortal Lock Written by Andrew Vachss

Mortal Lock by Andrew Vachss

Mortal Lock Written by Andrew Vachss

Bruno and the Carol Singers by Martin Walker

Bruno and the Carol Singers A Christmas Mystery of the French CountrysideWritten by Martin Walker

Crime and Guilt by Carol Janeway

Crime and Guilt StoriesWritten by Ferdinand von Schirach Translated by Carol Janeway

The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories by Keith Alan Deutsch

The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories Edited by Otto Penzler Foreword by Otto Penzler Introduction by Keith Alan Deutsch

A Study in Sherlock by Alan Bradley

A Study in Sherlock Stories inspired by the Holmes canonEdited by Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger Contribution by Lee Child, Neil Gaiman and Alan Bradley

A Study in Sherlock by Alan Bradley

A Study in Sherlock Stories inspired by the Holmes canonEdited by Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger Contribution by Lee Child, Neil Gaiman and Alan Bradley

The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories by Keith Alan Deutsch

The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories Edited by Otto Penzler Foreword by Otto Penzler Introduction by Keith Alan Deutsch

The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps by Otto Penzler

The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps The Best Crime Stories from the Pulps During Their Golden Age--The '20s, '30s & '40sEdited by Otto Penzler

The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps by Otto Penzler

The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps The Best Crime Stories from the Pulps During Their Golden Age--The '20s, '30s & '40sEdited by Otto Penzler

Hollywood Nocturnes by James Ellroy

Hollywood Nocturnes Written by James Ellroy

With These Hands by Keith Carradine

With These Hands Selected Unabridged StoriesWritten by Louis L'Amour Read by Keith Carradine

Graveyard Shift by John Glover

Graveyard Shift and Other Stories from Night ShiftWritten by Stephen King Read by John Glover

The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries
Edited by Otto Penzler

The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries
Written by Otto Penzler

Nightmare Range The Collected Sueno and Bascom Short Stories
Written by Martin Limon

Nightmare Range The Collected Sueno and Bascom Short Stories
Written by Martin Limon

Mortal Lock
Written by Andrew Vachss

Mortal Lock
Written by Andrew Vachss

Bruno and the Carol Singers A Christmas Mystery of the French Countryside
Written by Martin Walker

Crime and Guilt Stories
Written by Ferdinand von Schirach
Translated by Carol Janeway

The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories
Edited by Otto Penzler
Foreword by Otto Penzler
Introduction by Keith Alan Deutsch

A Study in Sherlock Stories inspired by the Holmes canon
Edited by Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger
Contribution by Lee Child, Neil Gaiman and Alan Bradley

A Study in Sherlock Stories inspired by the Holmes canon
Edited by Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger
Contribution by Lee Child, Neil Gaiman and Alan Bradley

The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories
Edited by Otto Penzler
Foreword by Otto Penzler
Introduction by Keith Alan Deutsch

The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps The Best Crime Stories from the Pulps During Their Golden Age--The '20s, '30s & '40s
Edited by Otto Penzler

The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps The Best Crime Stories from the Pulps During Their Golden Age--The '20s, '30s & '40s
Edited by Otto Penzler

Hollywood Nocturnes
Written by James Ellroy

With These Hands Selected Unabridged Stories
Written by Louis L'Amour
Read by Keith Carradine

Graveyard Shift and Other Stories from Night Shift
Written by Stephen King
Read by John Glover