The world's finest mystery and crime stories
By: edited by Ed Gorman
Edition: 1st annual collection.
Publisher: Forge
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 638
ISBN-13: 9780312874797
Subjects: Crime; American Detective and mystery stories; English Detective and mystery stories; Fiction
Description: Contains thirty-eight notable mystery and crime stories from around the world, featuring works by a variety of authors including Ed McBain, Anne Perry, Lawrence Block, and others.
Notes: "A Tom Doherty Associates book."
Table of contents: title: The year in mystery and crime fiction : 1999  -- Jon L. Breen; title: A 1999 yearbook of mystery and crime  -- Edward D. Hoch; title: Heroes  -- Anne Perry; title: Rio Grande gothic  -- David Morrell; title: The hanged man  -- Ian Rankin; title: Spooked  -- Carolyn G. Hart; title: Show me the bones  -- Carolyn Wheat; title: A flash of chrysanthemum  -- J.A. Jance; title: The man in the white hat  -- Loren D. Estleman; title: '53 Buick  -- Gary Phillips; title: Crack  -- James W. Hall; title: Paleta man  -- Laurie R. King; title: Snow  -- Stuart M. Kaminsky; title: The canasta club  -- Eleanor Taylor Bland; title: Unchained melody  -- Doug Allyn; title: Something simple  -- Rob Kantner; title: The circle of ink  -- Edward D. Hoch; title: The death cat of Hester Street  -- Carol Gorman; title: Dark times  -- Peter Crowther; title: Those that trespass  -- Peter Tremayne; title: Blitzed  -- Phil Lovesey; title: For services rendered  -- Jeffery Deaver; title: The tinder box  -- Minette Walters; title: Symptoms of loss  -- Jerry Sykes; title: Taking care of Frank  -- Antony Mann; title: Styx and bones  -- Edward Bryant; title: Not long now  -- Carol Anne Davis; title: The shortest distance  -- Mat Coward; title: I love everything about you  -- Marthayn Pelegrimas and Robert J. Randisi; title: The case of the headless witness  -- Lloyd Biggle, Jr.; title: The mummy case  -- Carole Nelson Douglas; title: Recycle  -- Marcia Muller; title: Now what?  -- Donald E. Westlake; title: Barking at butterflies  -- Ed McBain; title: The dark prince  -- Joyce Carol Oates; title: Rappin' dog  -- Dick Lochte; title: Dream lawyer  -- Lia Matera; title: Flood  -- Bill Pronzini; title: The ice shelf  -- Clark Howard; title: In for a penny -- Lawrence Block.