The Best American Mystery Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780395939154)

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
ISBN-10: 0395939151
ISBN-13: 9780395939154
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Language: English
Published: 10/29/1999
Pages: 480
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 1.20d

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