Inherit the dead / Mark Billingham, Lawrence Block, CJ Box, Ken Bruen, Alafair Burke, Stephen L. Carter, Mary Higgins Clark, Marcia Clark, Max Allan Collins, John Connolly, James Grady, Bryan Gruley, Heather Graham, Charlaine Harris, Val McDermid, SJ Rozan, Jonathan Santlofer, Dana Stabenow, Lisa Unger, Sarah Weinman ; edited by John Santlofer ; with a preface by Linda Fairstein and an introduction by Lee Child.

By: Child, Lee [author.]Contributor(s): Billingham, Mark [author.] | Block, Lawrence [author.] | Box, C. J [author.] | Bruen, Ken [author.] | Burke, Alafair [author.] | Carter, Stephen L [author.] | Clark, Mary Higgins [author.] | Clark, Marcia [author.] | Collins, Max Allan [author.] | Connolly, John, 1968- [author.] | Grady, James [author.] | Gruley, Bryan [author.] | Graham, Heather [author.] | Harris, Charlaine [author.] | McDermid, Val [author.] | Rozan, S. J [author.] | Santlofer, Jonathan [author,, editor.] | Stabenow, Dana [author.] | Unger, Lisa, 1970- [author.] | Weinman, Sarah [author.] | Fairstein, Linda A [author of preface.] | Child, Lee [author of introduction.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2014Edition: Large print editionDescription: 403 pages (large print) ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781410464439 (hardcover); 1410464431 (hardcover)Uniform titles: Short stories. Selections. Subject(s): Ex-police officers -- FictionGenre/Form: Large type books. | Short stories. | Mystery fiction. DDC classification: 813/.6 LOC classification: PS3553.H4838 | A6 2014
Contents:
Introduction / Lee Child -- One / Jonathan Santlofer -- Two / Stephen L. Carter -- Three / Marcia Clark -- Four / Heather Graham -- Five / Charlaine Harris -- Six / Weinman, Sarah -- Seven / Bryan Gruley -- Eight / Alafair Burke -- Nine / John Connolly -- Ten / James Grady -- Eleven / Ken Bruen -- Twelve / Lisa Unger -- Thirteen / S. J. Rozan -- Fourteen / Dana Stabenow -- Fifteen / Val McDermid -- Sixteen / Mary Higgins Clark -- Seventeen / C. J. Box -- Eighteen / Max Allan Collins -- Nineteen / Mark Billingham -- Twenty / Lawrence Block -- Acknowledgments -- About safe horizon / Linda Fairstein.
Summary: Pericles "Perry" Christo is a PI with a past, a former cop who lost his badge and his family in a corruption scandal. When a wealthy Upper East Side matron summons him one cold February night, Perry grabs what seems to be a straightforward case. In this classic noir tale set on New York's mean streets and along Hamptons' back roads, twenty authors bring distinctive voices to each chapter as the tension builds to a shocking, explosive finale.
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Introduction / Lee Child -- One / Jonathan Santlofer -- Two / Stephen L. Carter -- Three / Marcia Clark -- Four / Heather Graham -- Five / Charlaine Harris -- Six / Weinman, Sarah -- Seven / Bryan Gruley -- Eight / Alafair Burke -- Nine / John Connolly -- Ten / James Grady -- Eleven / Ken Bruen -- Twelve / Lisa Unger -- Thirteen / S. J. Rozan -- Fourteen / Dana Stabenow -- Fifteen / Val McDermid -- Sixteen / Mary Higgins Clark -- Seventeen / C. J. Box -- Eighteen / Max Allan Collins -- Nineteen / Mark Billingham -- Twenty / Lawrence Block -- Acknowledgments -- About safe horizon / Linda Fairstein.

Pericles "Perry" Christo is a PI with a past, a former cop who lost his badge and his family in a corruption scandal. When a wealthy Upper East Side matron summons him one cold February night, Perry grabs what seems to be a straightforward case. In this classic noir tale set on New York's mean streets and along Hamptons' back roads, twenty authors bring distinctive voices to each chapter as the tension builds to a shocking, explosive finale.

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