68. Uncertain Endings: the World’s Greatest Unsolved Mystery Stories by Otto Penzler

If you like mysteries, short stories, and especially stories in which readers determine how it will end, this is the perfect collection for you. Edited by Otto Penzler, the owner of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City, this book features nineteen short stories that tease, tantalize, and frustrate readers. Authors such as Ray Bradbury, O. Henry, Mark Twain, and Roald Dahl are included, as well as sequels produced for some of the most famous stories included in the anthology.

Penzler sums up the collection perfectly when he writes: “Here you will not find unsatisfying endings. You will find no endings.” Whether it be determining which brother killed Hosea Snow in Stanley Ellin’s “Unreasonable Doubt”, to finding out who is killing young women in Ray Bradbury’s chilling “The Whole Town’s Sleeping”, this is a work that will keep readers guessing. One of the most famous short stories ever written, Frank Stockton’s “The Lady, or the Tiger” is included, and the excellent rendition, “The Lady and the Tiger” by Jack Moffitt is considered better by some readers.