title: The New Mystery: The International Association of Crime Writer's Essential Crime Writing of the Late 20th Century
author: Jerome Charyn
description: Despite a few duds, this collection of international writing probes the far reaches of the mystery genre and offers spectacular crime fiction fireworks by Walter Mosely, James Ellroy, Flannery O'Conner and others. <br />Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are
  the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any
  resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely
  coincidental.
  
  
  Copyright © 2019 by Alexander McCall Smith
  
  
  All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Pantheon Books, a
  division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York. Originally published in
  hardcover in Great Britain by Little, Brown, an imprint of Little, Brown Book
  Group, a Hachette U.K. company, London, in 2019.
  
  
  Pantheon Books and colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House
  LLC.
  
  
  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
  
  
  Name: McCall Smith, Alexander, [date] author.
  
  
  Title: The Department of Sensitive Crimes : a Detective Varg novel / Alexander
  McCall Smith.
  
  
  Description: First United States edition. New York : Pantheon Books, 2019.
  
  
  Identifiers: LCCN 2018040221. ISBN 9781524748210 (har