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bThomas H. Cook/bis the author of eighteen books, including two works of true crime. His novels have been nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award, the Macavity Award and the Dashiell Hammett Prize.iThe Chatham School Affair/iwon the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel in 1996. His true crime bok,iBlood Echoes/i, was nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award in 1992, and his short story "Fatherhood" won the Herodotus Prize in 1998 and was included in Best Mystery Stories of 1998, edited by Otto Penzler and Ed McBain. His works have been translated into fifteen languages.brbrbOtto Penzler/bis the proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City. He was publisher ofiThe Armchair Detective/i, the founder of the mysterious Press and the Armchair Detective Library, and created the publishing firm Otto Penzler Books. He is a recipient of an Edgar Awad foriThe Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection/iand the Ellery Queen Award by the Mystery Writers of America for his many contributions to the field. he is the series editor ofiThe Best American Mystery Stories of the Year/i. His other anthologies includeiMurder for Love, Murder for Revenge, Murder and Obsession, The 50 Greatest Mysteries of All Time/i, andiThe Best American Mystery Stories of the Century/i. He wrotei101 Greatest Movies of Mystery & Suspense/i. He lives in New York City.brbrbNicholas Pileggi/bwas born and raised in New York. He was a reporter for the New York City Desk of the Associated Press for seventeen years before moving toiNew York/imagazine. He is the author ofiBlye, Private Eye; Wiseguy/i; andiCasino/i.iWiseguy/i(akaiGoodfellas/i) andiCasino/iwere both turned into films which Pileggi cowrote with director Martin Scorsese. Pileggi lives in New York City.A riveting new anthology series-a year's worth of the most powerful, the most startling, the most astute and smartest, in short, the best crime jou