The Best American Mystery Stories

In its brief existence, THE BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES has established itself as a peerless suspense anthology. Compiled by the best-selling mystery novelist Ed McBain, this year's edition boasts nineteen outstanding tales by such masters as John Updike, Lawrence Block, Jeffery Deaver, and Joyce Carol Oates as well as stories by rising stars such as Edgar Award winners Tom Franklin and Thomas H. Cook. The 1999 volume is a spectacular showcase for the high quality and broad diversity of the year's finest suspense, crime, and mystery writing. Keller's Last Refuge by Lawrence Block, Safe by Gary A. Braunbeck, Fatherhood by Thomas H. Cook, Wrong Time, Wrong Place by Jeffery Deaver, Netmail by Brendan DuBois, Redneck by Loren D. Estleman, And Maybe the Horse Will Learn to Sing by Gregory Fallis, Poachers by Tom Franklin, Hitting Rufus by Victor Gischler, Out There in the Darkness by Ed Gorman, Survival by Joseph Hansen, A Death on the Ho Chi Minh Trail by David K. Harford, An Innocent Bystander by Gary Krist, The Jailhouse Lawyer by Phillip M. Margolin, Secret, Silent by Joyce Carol Oates, In Flanders Fields by Peter Robinson, Dry Whiskey by David B. Silva, Sacrifice by L. L. Thrasher, Bech Noir by John Updike

Author: Ed McBain, Otto Penzler
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Published: 10/29/1999
Pages: 480
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780395939154

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 08/30/1999 pg. 55
Booklist 09/01/1999 pg. 70
Ingram Advance 10/01/1999 pg. 22
Library Journal 10/01/1999 pg. 139
Kirkus Reviews 10/01/1999 pg. 1528

About the Author
McBain, Ed: - ED McBAIN holds the Mystery Writers of America's prestigious Grand Master Award and was the first American to receive the Diamond Dagger, the British Crime Writers' Association's highest award. The author of more than one hundred books, he lives in Connecticut.McBain, Ed: - ED McBAIN holds the Mystery Writers of America's prestigious Grand Master Award and was the first American to receive the Diamond Dagger, the British Crime Writers' Association's highest award. The author of more than one hundred books, he lives in Connecticut.Penzler, Otto: - OTTO PENZLER is a renowned mystery editor, publisher, columnist, and owner of New York's The Mysterious Bookshop, the oldest and largest bookstore solely dedicated to mystery fiction. He has edited more than fifty crime-fiction anthologies. He lives in New York.