Murder Is My Racquet : Fourteen Original Tales of Love, Death, and Tennis by Today's Great Writers

by Penzler, Otto

• ISBN13: 9780892960156
• ISBN10: 0892960159
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-06-02
• Publisher: Grand Central Pub

Summary

To the uninitiated, tennis is a genteel sport, steeped in white clothes, lemonade, and polite applause. But to those who truly love and know it, the deceptively well-mannered lawn game can be a secret hotbed of all manner of criminality and even extreme violence - as revealed all too clearly in common sport terminology like "overhead smash" and "killer serve." Now editor Otto Penzler presents shocking and mind-teasing tales of murder and detection on and off the court by fourteen of today's finest authors of mystery and suspense fiction. These ace stories display the unbeatable masters of the literary drop shot at the very top of their game.

Table of Contents

Terrible Tommy Terhune	p. 1
Tennis, anyone?	p. 24
Six love	p. 31
Promise	p. 52
A debt to the devil	p. 72
Stephen Longacre's greatest match	p. 104
No strings	p. 132
A killer overhead	p. 162
Needle match	p. 183
The rematch	p. 203
Continental grip	p. 230
Close shave	p. 242
Love match	p. 289
A peach of a shot	p. 308
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