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Otto Penzler, owner of the Mysterious Bookshop in Manhattan, founded the Mysterious Press in 1975. Penzler quickly became known for his outstanding selection of mystery, crime, and suspense books, both from his imprint and in his store. The imprint was devoted to printing the best books in these genres, using fine paper and top dust-jacket artists, as well as offering many limited, signed editions.
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The Mysterious Bookshop , founded in 1979, is located in Manhattans Tribeca neighborhood. It is the oldest and largest mystery-specialty bookstore in America.
The shop stocks the finest selection of new mystery hardcovers, paperbacks, and periodicals. It also features a superb collection of signed modern first editions, rare and collectable works, and Sherlock Holmes titles. The bookshop issues a free monthly newsletter highlighting its book clubs, new releases, events, and recently acquired books.
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Recoil
Brian Garfield
A MysteriousPress.com
Open Road Integrated Media ebook
F OR
B RYAN AND
N ANETTE F ORBES
Revenge, at first though sweet,
Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.
J OHN M ILTON, Paradise Lost
PART ONE
THE HUNTED
CHAPTER ONE
New York State: 1819 July
T HE DOOR CLOSED BEHIND HER WITH A SHUDDERING STEEL crash. The corrections officer at the desk looked up once, dropped his eyes to the stack of forms and did not look at her again. Name?
You know my name.
We get a lot of visitors.
She said, Anna Pastor. Mrs. Frank Pastor.
He filled in a space at the top of a form, writing with a ball-point. Youre here to see ?
My husband. She took one step forward and placed the visitors pass on the desk. She kept her hand on it.
It took forty minutes; then she sat in a hard chair at the long table. It ran wall to wall: The mesh partition filled the space from tabletop to ceiling. She had learned how to ignore the flyspecked green walls and the men who stood just inside the doors with their pot bellies cinched up by black pistol belts.
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