by Bill Pronzini, Martin Harry Greenberg · Random House Value Pub · tapa dura · ISBN 9780517641033
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«Baker's Dozen: 13 Short Detective Novels» is the anthology of detective stories edited by Bill Pronzini and Martin Harry Greenberg, in hardcover.
It collects thirteen short detective novels by genre authors such as Raymond Chandler, Leslie Charteris, Erle Stanley Gardner, John D. MacDonald, Georges Simenon and Cornell Woolrich. Their plots revolve around crimes: a murder, a death threat, an apparent suicide and a professional killer.
664 pages in English. Originally published in 1984 as 13 Short Mystery Novels and reissued in 1987 by Random House Value Publishing; sixth volume in the Baker's Dozen series.
Suitable for fans of classic detective fiction and anthologies of mystery authors.
Bill Pronzini is an American writer of detective fiction. He is also an active anthologist, having compiled more than 100 collections, most of which focus on mystery, western, and science fiction short stories. Pronzini is known as the creator of the San Francisco-based Nameless Detective, who starred in over 40 books from the early 1970s into the 2000s.
