Given its extraordinary span, its international scope, and its variant styles and groundbreaking stylists, A Century of Great Suspense Stories is a singular achievement. A bestselling master of suspense himself Jeffery Deaver had the enviable task of selecting from the thousands of stories written over the past one hundred years those which best represented the classic form, as well as the justly celebrated authors whose ironic twists and stunning payoffs left a lasting, vivid, and unnerving impression. The result is a triumph. In this ambitious anthology you’ll revel in the sardonic, overtly amoral plotting of Patricia Highsmith. You’ll rediscover the strangely poignant and surprising turns of Stanley Ellin, and the profoundly underrated Margaret Millar, a genius who mixed savage social satire with brooding horror. You’ll be treated to Stephen King at his chilling best. You’ll find yourself on the violent urban streets of Ross Macdonald and Mickey Spillane, and seeped in the ominous regional flavor of Sharyn McCrumb and Tony Hillerman. You’ll marvel at the cunning webs spun by Lawrence Block, Ruth Rendell, Anthony Boucher, and Sara Paretsky, all of whom defy expectations as they reinvent the genre. And you’ll understand the awesome reputations of those authors who set the standard, such as the legendary Harlan Ellison, Fredric Brown, the master of the twist ending, and James M. Cain, uncannily skilled at knowing what went on between men and women behind closed doors. (The darker the room the better.) Delivering everything from the one-two punch of the detective story to the ingeniously precise trappings of the police procedural, from the disquieting corners of the criminal mind to sheer dread-inducing horror, A Century of Great Suspense Stories is a rich anthology of this popular literary genre, a stunning tribute to the art of storytelling, and to the men and women who have done it best

In his quest to unravel the threads left by his brother's death in Cambodia, Thomas Reed travels to the streets of Manila and the jungles of Cambodia, where he gradually pieces together the information that will lead him to his brother's lost child

En 1998, tres bandidos fuertemente armados salieron de los cañones de Four Corners en una camioneta robada. Mataron a un policía, sostuvieron un tiroteo con perseguidores y, finalmente, escaparon a una persecución que llego a reunir a cientos de agentes de más de veinte organismos estatales y federales. El delito y la desatinada investigación del FBI dejaron una secuela de mistenos: ¿Por quó se suicidó uno de los bandidos? ¿Cómo escaparon sus compañeros? ¿Por qué nadie, en una comunidad tan pobre, ha reclamado todavía la enorme recompensa ofrecida por el gobierno? Y, lo que es más confuso aún ¿qué delito iban a cometer cuando el agente Dale Claxton los detuvo, pagando por ello con su vida? Tony Hillerman encarga este auténtico rompecabezas a sus agentes de la policía tnbal navaja, el sargento Jim Chee y el lugarteniente Joe Leaphom. En la actualidad, el recuerdo de la desafortunada persecución de 1998 permanece dolorosamente fresco

An assassin waits for Officer Jim Chee in the desert to protect a vision of death that for thirty years has been fed by greed and washed by blood. Who would murder a dying man? Why would someone steal a box of rocks? And why would a rich man’s wife pay $3,000 to get them back? These questions haunt Sgt. Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police as he journeys into the scorching Southwest. But there, out in the Bad Country, a lone assassin waits for Chee to come seeking answers, waits ready and willing to protect a vision of death that for thirty years has been fed by greed and washed in blood

Officer Chee attempts to solve two modern murders by deciphering the sacred clown’s ancient message to the people of the Tano pueblo. An Ancient Trust is Broken. During a Tano kachina ceremony something in the antics of the dancing koshare fills the air with tension. Moments later the clown is found brutally bludgeoned in the same manner that a reservation schoolteacher was killed just days before. In true Navajo style, Officer Jim Chee and Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Tribal Police go back to the beginning to decipher the sacred clown’s message to the people of the Tano pueblo. Amid guarded tribal secrets and crooked Indian traders, they find a trail of blood that links a runaway schoolboy, two dead bodies, and the mysterious presence of a sacred artifact

Hillerman, author of the Joe Leaphorn mysteries, and Herbert, editor of The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing, trace this short-story genre from its beginnings in the hands of Edgar Allen Poe through its development by the likes of Erle Stanley Gardner, Mary Roberts Rinehart and Anthony Boucher to its current practice by such masters as Marcia Muller. Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," which established a great many of the whodunit conventions, is indispensable to such an overview. Raymond Chandler's "I'll be Waiting" emits a doom-laden atmosphere right from the first line; William Faulkner shows unexpected economy of language?and a transparent plot?in "An Error in Chemistry." Ed McBain scores high marks in "Small Homicide," in which the tiny details of a baby's untimely death resonate uncomfortably. As represented in this competent, unstartling collection, Linda Barnes ("Lucky Penny") easily outsasses Sue Grafton ("The Parker Shotgun"). Hillerman makes a solid appearance with "Chee's Witch," and in "Benny's Space" Muller captures the full subtle force of her novel-length vision

Вся полиция Фор-Корнерс — пустынной, изрезанной каньонами области на юго-востоке Америки — была поставлена на ноги, после того как неизвестные ограбили казино. Бандиты действовали исключительно дерзко и умудрились бесследно исчезнуть с немалой добычей. Как им удалось раствориться в лабиринте каньонов? Как ни странно, ответ на этот вопрос дает старинная легенда индейцев навахо. Двое полицейских резервации навахо — отставной ветеран Джо Липхорн и молодой Джим Чи — выходят на след преступников

Перевод романов Тони Хиллермана

Впервые на русском языке произведение известного американского писателя Тони Хиллермана, автора многочисленных детективов. Герой романа – сотрудник племенной полиции навахо Джим Чи благодаря своему мастерству следопыта, тонкой проницательности и прекрасному владению дедуктивным методом распутывает загадочное преступление

У бедного жителя индейской резервации обнаруживается ценнейший бриллиант, исчезнувший почти полвека назад. Проводя расследование, лейтенант Липхорн и сержант Чи узнают, как необычным образом оживает древняя легенда индейцев о Человеке-Скелете и об опасностях, таящихся среди величественных скал Большого Каньона