The Big Book of Rogues and Villains

Otto Penzler

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Vintage Books
24 October 2017

Crime & mystery fiction (Children's&YA)

Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler's new anthology brings together the most cunning, ruthless, and brilliant criminals in mystery fiction, for the biggest compendium of bad guys (and girls) ever assembled.

The best mysteries--whether detective, historical, police procedural, cozy, or comedy--have one thing in common- a memorable perpetrator. For every Sherlock Holmes or Sam Spade in noble pursuit, there's a Count Dracula, a Lester Leith, or a Jimmy Valentine. These are the rogues and villains who haunt our imaginations--and who often have more in common with their heroic counterparts than we might expect. Now, for the first time ever, Otto Penzler gathers the iconic traitors, thieves, con men, sociopaths, and killers who have crept through the mystery canon over the past 150 years, captivating and horrifying readers in equal measure. The 72 handpicked stories in this collection introduce us to the most depraved of psyches, from iconic antiheroes like Maurice Leblanc's Ars ne Lupin and Sax Rohmer's Dr. Fu Manchu to contemporary delinquents like Lawrence Block's Ehrengraf and Donald Westlake's Dortmunder, and include unforgettable tales by Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, Washington Irving, Jack London, H.G. Wells, Sinclair Lewis, O. Henry, Edgar Wallace, Leslie Charteris, Erle Stanley Gardner, Edward D. Hoch, Max Allan Collins, Loren D. Estleman, and many more.

Edited by: Otto Penzler
Imprint: Vintage Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 231mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 41mm
Weight: 975g
ISBN: 9780525432487
ISBN 10: 0525432485
Pages: 928
Publication Date: 24 October 2017
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

OTTO PENZLER is the editor of fifteen Vintage Crime/Black Lizard anthologies, includingThe Black Lizard Big Book of Locked-Room Mysteries,The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories, and, most recently,The Big Book of Jack the Ripper. He lives in New York City, where he is the proprietor of the Mysterious Bookshop.

Reviews for The Big Book of Rogues and Villains

Penzler takes what is arguably the best part of crime and mystery novels--the villains--and packs them into an encyclopedic anthology that manages to cover both Dracula and Dr. Fu Manchu. To be read through a monocle and with a sinister sneer. --The New York Times Book Review Rogues and Villains is a treasure chest of delightful discoveries. --The Seattle Times The Big Book of Rogues and Villains is stalked by a cast of the deviant crooks, creeps, criminals and con men. --Los Angeles Times