The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories

by Jeffery Deaver, John Lutz, Diane Mott Davidson, et al.

This collection of stories will inspire laughter, tears and reflection and each tale is told with a master's hand for character, plot, suspense and mood. Authors include Lawrence Block, Simon Breet and John Harvey.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 078670571X
• ISBN13: 9780786705719
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.3"

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Superior collection of top mystery writers.

This 367-page collection of short stories includes: Ruth Rendell (Liar's Dice), Marcia Muller, Sara Paretsky (Settled Score), Lawrence Block, Carole Nelson Douglas (The Maltese Double Cross), Edward D. Hoch, Ed Gorman, Reginald Hill, Michael Z. Lewin, Sharyn McCrumb, Joan Hess (The Last to Know), Barbara Collins and Max Allan Collins (Cat Got Your Tongue), Charlotte MacLeod (The Perplexing Puzzle of the Perfidious Pigeon Poisoner), Loren D. Estleman, Norman Partridge, Jeremiah Healy (The Winfield Trade), Bill Pronzini, Nancy Pickard, Robert Barnard, Peter Lovesey, JUne Thomson, Jan Grape, Barbara D'Amato, Edward Bryant (While She Was Out), and Pat Cadigan (True Faces)