Murder and Obsession - Softcover

Perry, Ann; George, Elizabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0440613612 ISBN 13: 9780440613619

Publisher: Random House Publishing Group, 2000

Synopsis

Kent Anderson * Edna Buchanan * Amanda Cross * James Crumley * Philip Friedman * James W. Hall * Ed McBain * Michael Malone * Joyce Carol Oates * Shel Silverstein * Eric van Lustbader Her toenails were bloodred, her lips were blue in Edna Buchanan's "The Red Shoes," a riveting tale that takes us into the life of a foot fetishist who steps into the middle of a murder....What happens when a hard-nosed insurance investigator lights up a joint and sniffs out a case of arson? It's a tale that only Elmore Leonard could tell, in "Sparks...".Elizabeth George reaches into English history in "I, Richard," as an academic obsessed by a priceless artifact plots a deadly course of seduction--only to discover that fate is the most quixotic mistress of all. From lethal spikes to fatal kisses, from mad dogs to battle-crazed Englishmen, here indeed is Murder and Obsession, in these and 12 other all-new stories from Anne Perry, Dennis Lehane, Eric van Lustbader and others. For these are the best of the best, America's favorite writers exploring a deliciously chilling subject: obsession at its most insidious. "From the Paperback edition."

About this title

Review:

"Delicious...Rarely is obsession such a wonderful thing."
--USA Today

"A first-rate collection."
--San Francisco Chronicle

"Each tale is a finely honed masterpiece."
--Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel

Book Description:

This companion volume to MURDER FOR LOVE and MURDER FOR REVENGE features fifteen original stories specially commissioned from a killer list of crime writers that includes Elmore Leonard, Ed McBain and Elizabeth George.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0440613612
• ISBN 13: 9780440613619
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464
• Editor: Penzler Otto