Dead Man's Hand
By Otto Penzler
2007
First Published
3.63
Average Rating
400
Number of Pages
With contributions from Michael Connelly, Alexander McCall Smith, Walter Mosley, Joyce Carol Oates, Jeffery Deaver, and Peter Robinson, this is the best hand of crime short stories you will ever be dealt. Taking their inspiration from the card game that's more a way of life than an innocent pastime, there are no stories here that you'll want to sit out. Here are tales of games you'll wish you were part of... and games that you'd go to the ends of the Earth to avoid being dealt into.
Avg Rating
3.63
Number of Ratings
185
5 STARS
21%
4 STARS
36%
3 STARS
31%
2 STARS
9%
1 STARS
3%
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Author
Otto Penzler
Author · 19 books
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.
