Lights! Camera! Action!

Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler’s new anthology rolls out the red carpet for the stories that Hollywood hits are made of.

Otto Penzler

delivers the director’s cut of classic short stories that inspired some of Tinseltown’s most memorable films. There’s the shocking tale that inspired Hitchcock’s Iconic Psycho; the Agatha Christie classic “The Witness for the Prosecution” that Billy Wilder adapted with Marlene Dietrich; Sir Ian Fleming’s “From a View to a Kill,” later one of Roger Moore’s greatest Bond films; and two short stories, “Cyclists’ Raid” and “Murder on the Waterfront,” that formed the basis for two of Marlon Brando’s legendary roles. Sit back, relax, and enjoy these sixty-one stories as they were before they were immortalized on the silver screen.

IN THESE RIVETING TALES:

• A big game hunter finds himself on the wrong end of the scope.

• A jealous wife testifies against her husband in a grisly murder trial.

• An ex-prizefighter leads a revolt against mob thugs after he witnesses a brutal slaying.

• A maniacal motorcycle gang wreaks havoc on a quiet California town.

• A top-class spy confronts a rogue assassin in the streets of Paris.

• A solitary war veteran faces down a coterie of toughs running roughshod over a small town.

• A grieving couple catches eerie glimpses of their daughter who died months before.

INCLUDING UNFORGETTABLE WORKS BY

Edgar Allan Poe, Cornell Woolrich, Aldous Huxley, Ian Fleming, Robert Louis Stevenson, Budd Schulberg, O. Henry, W. Somerset Maugham, and many more

Otto Penzler

is the editor of sixteen Vintage Crime/Black Lizard anthologies, including

The Black Lizard Big Book of Locked-Room Mysteries, The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories, The Big Book of Jack the Ripper, The Big Book of Rogues and Villains,

and, most recently,

The Big Book of Female Detectives.

He lives in New York City, where he is the proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop.