A New Omnibus of Crime

“The best and most satisfying mystery bargain to come along in years. It will give readers countless hours of pleasure and surprise in one volume.” –Cleveland Plain Dealer”Not a clunker in the bunch…Dorothy Sayers edited a classic 1920 collection of short stories called ‘The Omnibus of Crime.’ There have been numerous collections since then, but until now, none has had the depth, intelligence and chutzpah to call itself ‘A New Omnibus of Crime.’” –Bloomberg News”A worthy successor to Dorothy L. Sayers’s classic Omnibus of Crime (1929).” –Publishers Weekly”Picking up where Dorothy L. Sayers’s 1920 classic, The Omnibus of Crime, left off, this collection gathers works of short mystery fiction from the end of World War I to today, including pieces by Raymond Chandler, Ross Macdonald, Dashiell Hammett, Elmore Leonard, Ruth Rendell and P.D. James.” –Good Housekeeping”A New Omnibus of Crime is essential for anyone with more than a passing interest in detective fiction. Brilliantly assembled, and beautifully edited by people who know what they’re doing.” –Robert B. Parker, author of Double Play and Cold Service”This recent anthology boldly evokes the title of Dorothy Sayers’s classic anthology of 1920. The editors aim to showcase the work of the four-score-and-seven years since. Here you’ll find the whole gamut, from the tough-guy patter of hard-boiled Raymond Chandler (‘He looked tough, but he looked as if he thought he was a little tougher than he was’) to the more decorous detection practiced by Miss Sayers.” –David Lehman, Wall Street Journal

Tony Hillerman was a widely celebrated writer of mystery novels and former president of the Mystery Writers of America. Rosemary Herbert has reviewed crime writing widely and she is the editor of numerous crime fiction anthologies as well as The Oxford Companion to Crime & Mystery Writing.

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