The Lineup: The World’s Greatest Crime Writers Tell The Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives edited by Otto Penzler

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Bibliographic Details

• Editor: Otto Penzler
• Title: The Lineup: The World's Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives
• Publisher: ‎ Little, Brown and Company
• Publication Date: November 10, 2009
• Language: ‎ English
• Format: Hardcover – 406 pages‏
• ISBN-10: ‎  0316031933
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0316031936
• Item Weight: ‎ 1.20 pounds
• Dimensions: ‎ 6.3 x 1.5 x 9.3 inches
• Book Condition: New / Like New – Excellent
• Dust Jacket Condition: Excellent

Synopsis:

A great recurring character in a fictional series you love becomes an old friend. You learn about their strange quirks and their haunted pasts and root for them every time they face danger. But where do some of the most fascinating sleuths in the mystery and thriller world really come from?

What was the real-life location that inspired Michael Connelly to make Harry Bosch a Vietnam vet tunnel rat? Why is Jack Reacher a drifter? How did a brief encounter in Botswana inspire Alexander McCall Smith to create Precious Ramotswe?

In THE LINEUP, some of the top mystery writers in the world tell about the genesis of their most beloved characters–or, in some cases, let their creations do the talking.

About the Editor:

Otto Penzler is the proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop (www.mysteriousbookshop.com) in New York City and is regarded as the world's foremost authority on crime, mystery and suspense fiction. He founded The Mysterious Press in 1975, which he later sold to Warner Books (1989). He reacquired the imprint in 2010 and it now publishes original books as an imprint at Grove/Atlantic, and both original works and classic crime fiction through MysteriousPress.com (www.mysteriouspress.com), in partnership with Open Road Integrated Media.

Penzler is a prolific editor, and has won two Edgar Awards, for Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection in 1977 and The Lineup in 2010. The Mystery Writers of America awarded him the prestigious Ellery Queen Award in 1994 and the Raven–the group's highest non-writing award–in 2003.