A riveting new anthology series–a year’s worth of the most powerful, the most startling, the most astute and smartest, in short, the best crime journalism. Included in this first volume are Mark Singer’s “The Chicken Warriors” from The New Yorker : an up-close look at the tawdry, wildly popular, illegal world of cock-fighting ; E. Jean Carrol’s “The Cheerleaders” from Spin : the story of how an idyllic town–the model for Bedford Falls in It’s a Wonderful Life –was ravaged by murders, rapes, and suicides; and David McClintick’s “Fatal Bondage” from Vanity Fair : the tale of a grifter with an attraction to sado-masochistic sex and serial killing. Intriguing, entertaining, compelling reading, The Best American Crime Writing is sure to become a much-anticipated annual.
Author
Otto Penzler is an editor of mystery fiction in the United States, and proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City, where he lives. Otto Penzler founded The Mysteriour Press in 1975 and was the publisher of The Armchair Detective, the Edgar-winning quarterly journal devoted to the study of mystery and suspense fiction, for seventeen years. Penzler has won two Edgar Awards, for The Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection in 1977, and The Lineup in 2010. The Mystery Writers of America awarded him the prestigious Ellery Queen Award in 1994, and the Raven—the group's highest non-writing award—in 2003.
