Mystery Muses

{{Short description|2006 novel by Jim Huang and Austin Lugar}}

{{Notability|Book|date=December 2022}}{{Infobox book

| name = Mystery Muses

| image = Mystery Muses.jpg

| author = Jim Huang, Austin Lugar

| published = 2006

| publisher = Crum Creek Press

| isbn = 978-0-962-58049-9

| alt = Mystery Muses

| pages = 224

| media_type = Print

| website = {{URL|http://www.crumcreekpress.com/shop/mystery-muses|Mystery Muses}}

| awards = Anthony Award for Best Critical Nonfiction (2007)

}}

Mystery Muses: 100 Classics That Inspire Today's Mystery Writers is a book co-authored and edited by Jim Huang & Austin Lugar,{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tlmdHjBJfPcC|title=Mystery Muses: 100 Classics that Inspire Today's Mystery Writers|last1=Huang|first1=Jim|last2=Lugar|first2=Austin|date=2006-01-01|publisher=Crum Creek Press|isbn=9780962580499|language=en}} published by Crum Creek Press{{Cite web|url=http://www.crumcreekpress.com/shop/mystery-muses|title=Mystery Muses|website=Crum Creek Press / The Mystery Company|language=en-US|access-date=2017-03-24}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/mystery-muses-jim-huang/1112144463|title=Mystery Muses: 100 Classics That Inspire Today's Mystery Writers by Jim Huang & Austin Lugar|website=Barnes & Noble}} on 1 August 2006.{{Cite journal |last=Nolan |first=Tom |date=2006-12-01 |title=A Mysterious Season |journal=Wall Street Journal - Eastern Edition |volume=248 |issue=129 |pages=W6}}

The book won the Anthony Award for Best Critical Nonfiction in 2007.{{Cite news|url=http://www.bouchercon.com/anthony-awards/winners-and-nominees/2000s/|title=Winners and Nominees 2000s|date=2015-09-22|work=Bouchercon|access-date=2017-03-24|language=en}}