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The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2025
- Written by: John Grisham - editor, Otto Penzler - series editor
- Narrated by: Jamie Renell, Marnye Young
- Length: 16 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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From over 3,000 considered stories published in the past year, this anthology contains the twenty best, selected by #1 New York Times bestselling author John Grisham under the auspices of New York City's legendary crime fiction specialty store The Mysterious Bookshop. Included are tales of suspense, detection, and puzzlement that illuminate the diversity of styles contained under the "mystery" umbrella and highlight some of the greatest practitioners of the short form working today, with a blend of household names and lesser known writers no less worthy of your attention.
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The best of the best!
- By L.Danna on 2025-09-29
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The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2025
- Narrated by: Jamie Renell, Marnye Young
- Length: 16 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 2025-09-23
- Language: English
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The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2023
- Written by: Amor Towles - editor, Otto Penzler - editor
- Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright, Christina Delaine, Terrence Kidd
- Length: 21 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Amor Towles selects the best mystery short stories of the year, including tales by Andrew Child, Jeffrey Deaver, and T. C. Boyle. Under the auspices of New York City's legendary mystery fiction specialty bookstore, The Mysterious Bookshop, and aided by Edgar Award-winning anthologist Otto Penzler, New York Times bestseller Amor Towles has selected the twenty most puzzling, most thrilling, and most mysterious short stories from the past year, collected now in one entertaining volume.
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Good stories but terrible stereotypical accents.
- By John on 2024-08-17
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The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2023
- Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright, Christina Delaine, Terrence Kidd
- Length: 21 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 2023-12-12
- Language: English
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The Vampire Archives
- The Most Complete Volume of Vampire Tales Ever Published
- Written by: Otto Penzler - editor, Kim Newman - introduction, Neil Gaiman - preface
- Narrated by: Various
- Length: 61 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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The Vampire Archives is the biggest, hungriest, undeadliest collection of vampire stories, as well as the most comprehensive bibliography of vampire fiction ever assembled. Dark, stormy, and delicious, once it sinks its teeth into you there’s no escape. Vampires! Whether imagined by Bram...
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The Vampire Archives
- The Most Complete Volume of Vampire Tales Ever Published
- Narrated by: Various
- Length: 61 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 2011-02-15
- Language: English
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The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year: 2022
- Written by: Sara Paretsky - editor and introduction, Otto Penzler - series editor
- Narrated by: Daniel Thomas May, Rachel Perry
- Length: 22 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Under the auspices of New York City's legendary mystery fiction specialty bookstore, The Mysterious Bookshop, and aided by Edgar Award-winning anthologist Otto Penzler, international bestseller and MWA Grandmaster Sara Paretsky has selected the twenty most puzzling, most thrilling, and most mysterious short stories from the past year, collected now in one entertaining volume.
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Brilliant compilation!
- By L.Danna on 2025-04-26
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The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year: 2022
- Narrated by: Daniel Thomas May, Rachel Perry
- Length: 22 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 2022-10-04
- Language: English
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The Best Mystery Stories of the Year: 2021
- Written by: Lee Child - editor and introduction, Otto Penzler - series editor
- Narrated by: Matt Godfrey, Emily Sutton-Smith
- Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Lee Child selects the 20 best mystery short stories of the year, including tales by Stephen King, Sara Paretsky, and many more. Under the auspices of New York City's legendary mystery fiction specialty bookstore, The Mysterious Bookshop, and aided by Edgar Award-winning anthologist Otto Penzler, international best seller Lee Child has selected the 20 most suspenseful, most confounding, and most mysterious short stories from the past year, collected now in one entertaining volume.
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Some delightful stories
- By Laura on 2026-03-21
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The Best Mystery Stories of the Year: 2021
- Narrated by: Matt Godfrey, Emily Sutton-Smith
- Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 2021-09-14
- Language: English
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Black Mask 10: Death Stops Payment
- And Other Crime Fiction from the Legendary Magazine
- Written by: Otto Penzler - Editor
- Narrated by: Eric Conger, Carol Monda, Jeff Woodman
- Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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From its launch in 1920 until its demise in 1951, the magazine Black Mask published pulp crime fiction. The first hard-boiled detective stories appeared on its pages. Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, Erle Stanley Gardner and John D. MacDonald got their start in Black Mask. The urban crime stories that appeared in Black Mask helped to shape American culture. Modern computer games, films, and television are rooted in the fiction popularized by the magazine.
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Black Mask 10: Death Stops Payment
- And Other Crime Fiction from the Legendary Magazine
- Narrated by: Eric Conger, Carol Monda, Jeff Woodman
- Series: Black Mask, Book 10
- Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 2012-07-31
- Language: English
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The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year: 2024
- Written by: Otto Penzler - editor foreword, Anthony Horowitz - editor introduction
- Narrated by: Kim Niemi, BJ Harrison
- Length: 15 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Anthony Horowitz selects and introduces the best mystery stories from the past year, under the auspices of the world's oldest mystery fiction specialty bookshop.
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unimpressed
- By L.Danna on 2025-08-24
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The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year: 2024
- Narrated by: Kim Niemi, BJ Harrison
- Length: 15 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 2024-09-17
- Language: English
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Black Mask 3: The Maltese Falcon
- And Other Crime Fiction from the Legendary Magazine
- Written by: Otto Penzler - editor, Jeff Gurner
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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From its launch in 1920 until its demise in 1951, the magazine Black Mask published pulp crime fiction. The first hard-boiled detective stories appeared on its pages. Never before in audio, these vintage stories are the darkest of the dark, and the best of the best.
Crime fiction fans old and new will delight in rediscovering these taut, character-rich, heart-stopping tales, now on audio for the first time.
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Great book
- By MOJO on 2023-05-10
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Black Mask 3: The Maltese Falcon
- And Other Crime Fiction from the Legendary Magazine
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Series: Black Mask, Book 3
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 2011-09-01
- Language: English
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Black Mask 4: The Parrot That Wouldn’t Talk
- And Other Crime Fiction from the Legendary Magazine
- Written by: Otto Penzler - Editor
- Narrated by: Pete Larkin, Carol Monda, Alan Sklar
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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From its launch in 1920 until its demise in 1951, the magazine Black Mask published pulp crime fiction. The first hard-boiled detective stories appeared on its pages. Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, Erle Stanley Gardner and John D. MacDonald got their start in Black Mask. The urban crime stories that appeared in Black Mask helped to shape American culture.
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Black Mask 4: The Parrot That Wouldn’t Talk
- And Other Crime Fiction from the Legendary Magazine
- Narrated by: Pete Larkin, Carol Monda, Alan Sklar
- Series: Black Mask, Book 4
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 2011-12-06
- Language: English
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The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories
- Written by: Otto Penzler - editor
- Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith, Mark Bramhall, Gildart Jackson, and others
- Length: 46 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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The biggest collection of Sherlock Holmes stories ever assembled! Arguably no other character in history has been so enduringly popular as Sherlock Holmes. Ever since his first appearance, in Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1887 novella A Study in Scarlet, readers have loved reading about him almost as...
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The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories
- Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith, Mark Bramhall, Gildart Jackson, Bruce Mann, Peter Altschuler, Matt Waterson, Steve West, Karen White, Katherine Kellgren
- Length: 46 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 2015-10-27
- Language: English
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Black Mask 2: Murder IS Bad Luck
- And Other Crime Fiction from the Legendary Magazine
- Written by: Otto Penzler - Editor
- Narrated by: Jeff Gurner, Alan Sklar
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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From its launch in 1920 until its demise in 1951, the magazine Black Mask published pulp crime fiction. The first hard-boiled detective stories appeared on its pages. Never before in audio, these vintage stories are the darkest of the dark, and the best of the best.
Crime fiction fans old and new will delight in rediscovering these taut, character-rich, heart-stopping tales, now on audio for the first time.
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Top notch
- By Michael on 2018-09-13
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Black Mask 2: Murder IS Bad Luck
- And Other Crime Fiction from the Legendary Magazine
- Narrated by: Jeff Gurner, Alan Sklar
- Series: Black Mask, Book 2
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 2011-09-01
- Language: English
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Black Mask 11: Middleman for Murder
- And Other Crime Fiction from the Legendary Magazine
- Written by: Otto Penzler - Editor
- Narrated by: Scott Brick, Eric Conger, Johnny Heller
- Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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From its launch in 1920 until its demise in 1951, the magazine Black Mask published pulp crime fiction. The first hard-boiled detective stories appeared on its pages. Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, Erle Stanley Gardner and John D. MacDonald got their start in Black Mask. The urban crime stories that appeared in Black Mask helped to shape American culture. Modern computer games, films, and television are rooted in the fiction popularized by "the seminal and venerated mystery pulp magazine" ( Booklist).
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Black Mask 11: Middleman for Murder
- And Other Crime Fiction from the Legendary Magazine
- Narrated by: Scott Brick, Eric Conger, Johnny Heller
- Series: Black Mask, Book 11
- Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 2012-08-28
- Language: English
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Black Mask 1: Doors in the Dark
- And Other Crime Fiction from the Legendary Magazine
- Written by: Otto Penzler - Editor
- Narrated by: Eric Conger, Pete Larkin, Alan Sklar
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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From its launch in 1920 until its demise in 1951, the magazine Black Mask published pulp crime fiction. The first hard-boiled detective stories appeared on its pages. Never before in audio, these vintage stories are the darkest of the dark, and the best of the best.
Crime fiction fans old and new will delight in rediscovering these taut, character-rich, heart-stopping tales, now on audio for the first time.
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Black Mask 1: Doors in the Dark
- And Other Crime Fiction from the Legendary Magazine
- Narrated by: Eric Conger, Pete Larkin, Alan Sklar
- Series: Black Mask, Book 1
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 2011-09-01
- Language: English
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Black Mask 6: The Bloody Bokhara
- And Other Crime Fiction from the Legendary Magazine
- Written by: Otto Penzler - Editor
- Narrated by: Richard Ferrone, Peter Ganim, David Ledoux
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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>From its launch in 1920 until its demise in 1951, the magazine Black Mask published pulp crime fiction. The first hard-boiled detective stories appeared on its pages. Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, Erle Stanley Gardner and John D. MacDonald got their start in Black Mask.
The urban crime stories that appeared in Black Mask helped to shape American culture. Modern computer games, films, and television are rooted in the fiction popularized by “the seminal and venerated mystery pulp magazine” (Booklist).
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Black Mask 6: The Bloody Bokhara
- And Other Crime Fiction from the Legendary Magazine
- Narrated by: Richard Ferrone, Peter Ganim, David Ledoux
- Series: Black Mask, Book 6
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 2012-04-10
- Language: English
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Christmas Crimes at the Mysterious Bookshop
- Written by: Otto Penzler - editor
- Narrated by: Jennifer Pickens, Graham Rowat
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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The oldest mystery specialty bookstore in the world, The Mysterious Bookshop, has for most of its forty-five-year history commissioned an original short story as a holiday gift for its customers. Written exclusively for the store, the stories were given as a holiday gift to its customers as a thank you for their business, handed out or mailed between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day.
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Christmas Crimes at the Mysterious Bookshop
- Narrated by: Jennifer Pickens, Graham Rowat
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 2024-10-22
- Language: English
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The Vicious Circle
- Mysteries & Crime Stories from the Algonquin Round Table
- Written by: Otto Penzler - editor
- Narrated by: James Romick
- Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
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With the possible exception of the expatriate writers living in Paris in the 1920s, no single group of American literary figures has achieved as much fame or notoriety as the New York sophisticates who met to match wits and attempt to outshine each other as members of what came to be called the Algonquin Round Table. The humorists Robert Benchley and S. J. Perelman, playwrights Marc Connelly and George S. Kaufman, novelists Edna Ferber and Alexander Woollcott, and most famously, Dorothy Parker, were the literary luminaries who made up this group....
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The Vicious Circle
- Mysteries & Crime Stories from the Algonquin Round Table
- Narrated by: James Romick
- Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 2021-03-23
- Language: English
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Bloodsuckers
- The Vampire Archives, Volume 1
- Written by: Otto Penzler - editor
- Narrated by: Marc Cashman, Susan Duerden, Mark Deakins, and others
- Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
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“Sink your teeth in” (People) to the scariest, hungriest, undeadliest collection of vampire tales ever assembled—with stories from Stephen King, Dan Simmons, Bram Stoker, and many more. Dark, stormy, and delicious, once you’re in its clutches there's no escape. From the first to last...
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Bloodsuckers
- The Vampire Archives, Volume 1
- Narrated by: Marc Cashman, Susan Duerden, Mark Deakins, Stephen Hoye, Allyson Ryan, Fred Sanders, Simon Vance
- Series: The Vampire Archives, Book 1
- Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 2010-11-23
- Language: English
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Murderers' Row
- Original Baseball Mysteries: Volume 1
- Written by: K.C. Constantine, Max Allan Collins, Lawrence Block, and others
- Narrated by: Dan Cashman
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
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In this collection of seven original baseball short stories written by an all-star lineup of writers—each of whom understands the game's lore and tactical nuances, as well as its deep roots in American life—mystery and murder take the mound.
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Murderers' Row
- Original Baseball Mysteries: Volume 1
- Narrated by: Dan Cashman
- Series: Original Baseball Mysteries, Book 1
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 2025-06-16
- Language: English
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Golden Age Christmas Mysteries
- Written by: Otto Penzler - editor
- Narrated by: Jonathan Sleep
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
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Christmas has served as a fertile background for mystery fiction for a very long time, perhaps because it has the appearance of a time of peace and love while being so deeply at odds with violence, crime, and even murder. Many of the stories in this anthology have been written by some of the greatest Golden Age authors, undoubtedly inspired by the juxtaposition of the disparate elements of love and hate.
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Golden Age Christmas Mysteries
- Narrated by: Jonathan Sleep
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 2025-10-14
- Language: English
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Black Mask 5: The Ring on the Hand of Death
- And Other Crime Fiction from the Legendary Magazine
- Written by: Otto Penzler - Editor
- Narrated by: Erik Bergmann, Dan Bittner, Johnny Heller
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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From its launch in 1920 until its demise in 1951, the magazine Black Mask published pulp crime fiction. The first hard-boiled detective stories appeared on its pages. Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, Erle Stanley Gardner and John D. MacDonald got their start in Black Mask. The urban crime stories that appeared in Black Mask helped to shape American culture.
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Black Mask 5: The Ring on the Hand of Death
- And Other Crime Fiction from the Legendary Magazine
- Narrated by: Erik Bergmann, Dan Bittner, Johnny Heller
- Series: Black Mask, Book 5
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 2012-02-28
- Language: English
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