New York: Mysterious Press, 2006. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. One of Penzler's sports mystery anthologies, collecting short stories about a particular sport and crime. This time it's basketball (other anthologies include baseball, football, boxing, tennis, golf, and horse racing, Mystery writers contributing basketball stories include Lawrence Block, Jeffery Deaver, Parnell Hall, Laurie R. King, Mike Lupica, Michael Malone, Joan H. & Robert B. Parker, George Pelecanos, R.D. Rozan and Stephen Solomita. First edition, first printing (as stated, with complete numberline). About 5 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches, 348 pages in orange paper-covered boards with blue metallic lettering on spine. Dustjacket's front panel features skeleton centered in black circle shooting foul shot. Title is in white lettering bordered with black. Back panel includes three blurbs of praise for previous Penzler anthology, "Dangerous Women." This copy shows manufacturing defect: an inch-long wrinkle on inside back cover, o/w boards and text are complete, clean and unmarked with no other noticeable damage or flaws. Not ex-library. not remaindered. Copy appears unread. Dustjacket shows only a touch of surface wear. No tears, no creasing or bumping. Not price-clipped. Penzler is the founder of Mysterious Press and owner of the Mysterious Bookshop in NYC.

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Refereed by editor Otto Penzler, this anthology collects fourteen, original tales of buzzer-beating suspense and postgame mayhem. "In "Keller's Double Dribble," Lawrence Block tails a clueless hitman with courtside tickets to unplanned bloodshed ... Jeffery Deaver's power guard summons his formidable game instincts to thwart a pack of scammers in "Nothing but Net" ... a flagrant foul and a cruel betrayal send a star player crashing in Mike Lupica's "Mrs. Cash" ... George Pelecanos's "String Music" traces the dangerous escalation of a playground beef ... and in "Galahad, Inc.," by Joan H. Parker and Robert B. Parker, a college prodigy seeks unlikely defensive help against a sorority party sex rap.""Other literary slam-dunk tales ask just how hard a former Olympic medalist will fight to get back his old glory ... what hustle will win you the dunk-or-die prison matchup ... and why the pride of the Knicks will never live to see the playoffs. You'll find all the answers inside these pages from acclaimed storytellers Sue DeNymme, Brendan DuBois, Parnell Hall, Laurie R. King, Michael Malone, R. D. Rosen, S. J. Rozan, Justin Scott, and Stephen Solomita. There's the whistle. Here's the tip-off. Let these great clutch shot-makers put you in the zone."--BOOK JACKET.

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Bookseller: H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 005903
Title: MURDER AT THE FOUL LINE
Author: Penzler, Otto, Editor
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Quantity Available: 1
ISBN 10: 0892960167
ISBN 13: 9780892960163
Publisher: Mysterious Press
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 2006
Keywords: MYSTERY, DETECTIVE, SHORT STORIES, SPORTS, BASKETBALL, CRIME, SUSPENSE,
Bookseller catalogs: Mystery; Crime; Amateur Sleuth;

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