The Reason Why: An Anthology of the Murderous Mind

Edited and with an introduction by Edgar-winner Ruth Rendell. With explorations by, among others, Borges, Capote, Graham Greene, Maugham, Morrison, Poe, and Tartt. A lot of this is fiction, but a lot of fiction is "ripped from the headlines"... This ex-library hardcover comes from Morgan County, Indiana, and as you'll see, it's got the expected complement of stamps and stickers, along with some coffee-esque staining to the page edges (and a bookmark detailing someone's checkout list from 2012). But the spine is square, and inside, the pages are quite clean. A good reading copy for folks whose mystery reading may tend more toward the created.