Death Cruise: Crime Stories on the Open Seas - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1581820070 ISBN 13: 9781581820072

Publisher: Cumberland House Publishing, 1999

Synopsis

Death Cruise"": Crime Stories on the Open Sea, edited by Lawrence Block, is a collection of murder mysteries with settings aboard cruise ships and written by several members of the International Association of Crime Writers, including Agatha Christie, Nancy Pickard, Piet Teigeler, Edward D. Hoch, Ralph McInerny, John Mortimer, and Carolyn Wheat.""

About this title

About the Author:

Lawrence Block is a four-time winner of the Edgar Allen Poe and Shamus awards and a recipient of literary prizes in France, Germany, and Japan. The author of more than fifty books, including fourteen Matthew Scudder novels and EIGHT MILLION WAYS TO DIE and EVEN THE WICKED, he lives in New York.

From Booklist:

Cruise ships are locked rooms with panache, which makes them ideal settings for crime stories. This collection, edited by Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Lawrence Block, brings together cruising mystery stories written by members of the International Association of Crime Writers. The stories vary dramatically in style and content, from classical detection (Agatha Christie) to mainstream hard-boiled (Jeremiah Healy), but the real treats here are the contributions from the lesser-known but uniformly impressive international authors. JoseLatour's "Havanightmare," for example, about a Vermont woman kidnapped on a cruise to Cuba, defies our expectations at every turn, transforming a formulaic situation into something with remarkable psychological depth. A perfect choice for aboard-ship reading and a valuable introduction to some talented crime writers who bear watching. Ilene Cooper

About this edition

• Publisher: Cumberland House Publishing
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1581820070
• ISBN 13: 9781581820072
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Block Lawrence