Mysteries Ahoy!

A relatively recent imprint, the American Mystery Classics range was launched in late 2018 by Penzler Publishers.

The range reprints classic works of American mystery fiction in paperback and hardcover, each presented with a short introduction. The range has presented mystery fiction in a variety of styles ranging from impossible crimes to sensation fiction and legal mysteries.

Being still quite a new range I have only dipped into a few titles although I have quite a few on my TBR pile. As such I have no particular recommendations but I will note that I did nominate The So Blue Marble as a candidate for Reprint of the Year in 2018.

A Note: I reviewed The Dutch Shoe Mystery, The Egyptian Cross Mystery and The American Gun Mystery prior to those titles being republished in this range but I include them below as the mystery itself is obviously the same.

The So Blue Marble Dorothy B. Hughes	Home Sweet Homicide Craig Rice	The Dutch Shoe Mystery Ellery Queen
The Mad Hatter Mystery John Dickson Carr	Dread Journey Dorothy B. Hughes	Your Turn, Mr. Moto John P. Marquand
The Red Right Hand Joel Townsley Rogers	Vultures in the Sky Todd Downing	The Great Hotel Murder Vincent Starrett
The Chocolate Cobweb Charlotte Armstrong	Ride the Pink Horse Dorothy B. Hughes	Death from a Top Hat Clayton Rawson
The Siamese Twin Mystery Ellery Queen	Odor of Violets Baynard Kendrick	The Cape Cod Mystery Phoebe Atwood Taylor
Deadline at Dawn Cornell Woolrich	The American Gun Mystery Ellery Queen	Murder on “B” Deck Vincent Starrett
Cat’s Paw Roger Scarlett	The Egyptian Cross Mystery Ellery Queen	The Eight of Swords John Dickson Carr
The Chinese Orange Mystery Ellery Queen