cover image The New Mystery: The International Association of Crime Writer's Essential Crime...

The New Mystery: The International Association of Crime Writer's Essential Crime...

. Plume Books, $13.95 (400pp) ISBN 978-0-452-27133-3

Despite a few duds, this collection of international writing probes the far reaches of the mystery genre and offers spectacular crime fiction fireworks by Walter Mosely, James Ellroy, Flannery O'Conner and others. (Feb.)