Best of the Strand Magazine: 25 Years of Twists, Turns, and Tales from the Modern Masters of Mystery and Fiction - Couverture rigide

Gulli, Lamia J; Gulli, Andrew F

 
9798228017245: Best of the Strand Magazine: 25 Years of Twists, Turns, and Tales from the Modern Masters of Mystery and Fiction

Synopsis

Twenty-five stories from twenty-five years of The Strand Magazine, featuring a star-studded line-up of internationally bestselling mystery authors.

The Strand Magazine is a quarterly publication which offers the best of both worlds: publishing previously unpublished works by literary masters such as Shirley Jackson, P. G. Wodehouse, Tennessee Williams, and H. G. Wells, as well as new works of fiction by today's bestselling authors including Ruth Ware, Alexander McCall Smith, Michael Connelly, and Jo Nesbø.

This anthology serves as a celebration of The Strand's rich legacy, bringing together a selection of its most unforgettable tales, including stories by Walter Mosley, Charles Todd, Joyce Carol Oates, R. L. Stine, James Lee Burke, Jeffery Deaver, and Ray Bradbury among others, with an introduction by bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith.

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À propos des auteurs

Lamia Gulli is Fiction Editor at The Strand Magazine. She is the co-editor of No Rest for the Dead. She lives in Detroit, Michigan.



Andrew Gulli is the editor-in-chief of The Strand Magazine, one of the most well established and popular journals of mystery fiction active today. He is also the editor of No Rest for the Dead, a thriller written by a team of international bestselling authors including David Baldacci, Tess Gerritsen, Jeffery Deaver, Kathy Reichs, and Alexander McCall Smith.



Herbert George Wells was born on September 21, 1866, in Bromley, England to a working-class family. His first novel, The Time Machine, was an instant success and Wells produced a series of science fiction novels which pioneered ideas of the future. His later work focused on satire and social criticism. Wells' socialist views are evident in his Outline of History; his writings forecasted the rise of major cities and suburbs, economic globalization, and aspects of future military conflicts. Wells died in 1946.



Joyce Carol Oates, an award-winning author of fiction, nonfiction, short stories, plays, and novellas, is the author of some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including two New York Times bestsellers. Her books have won the National Book Award, O. Henry Award, the Jerusalem Prize, and the National Humanities Medal, among others. Her work has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize several times. She has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.



Zoë Sharp is the author of the Charlie Fox series of thrillers. She spent most of her formative years living on a catamaran on the northwest coast of England. She now lives in the English Lake District.

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