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The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: First Annual Edition
The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories First Annual Edition Author:the Staff of Mystery Scene (Editor), Ed Gorman (Editor) The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: First Annual Edition (1992) — The stories by the mystery genre's best writers, such as Tony Hillerman, Lawrence Block, P. D James, Ruth Rendell and Ray Bradbury, are compiled into an anthology of twenty-five of the year's most suspenseful stories. — Conten... more »ts:
Introduction by Jon L. Breen
* Challenge the Widow-Maker / Clark Howard;
* Stakeout / Bill Pronzini;
* Malibu Dog / Faye Kellerman;
* Decoy / Michael Gilbert;
* White Alligator / Andrew Henry Vachss;
* The Detective's Wife / Edward D. Hoch;
* The Fish-Sitter / Ruth Rendell;
* Elvis Lives / Lynne Barrett;
* Mother Tucker / James Kisner;
* The Mandrake Forgeries / William Bankier;
* The Nick of Time / Robert Barnard;
* Hanged for a Sheep / Henry Slesar;
* Incident On and Off a Mountain Road / Joe R. Lansdale;
* Batman's Helpers / Lawrence Block;
* The Valuation / Peter Lovesey;
* A Matter of Principal / Max Allan Collins;
* Final Resting Place / Marcia Mulle;r
* The Maltese Cat / Sara Paretsky;
* Another Room / Joan Hess;
* Button in the Bag / Charlotte MacLeod;
* The Three Musketeers / Jeremiah Healy;
* A Poison That Leaves No Trace / Sue Grafton;
* Someone Else / John Lutz;
* The Dead Past / Nancy Pickard;
* A Time for Every Purpose / Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
Mystery Scene: Founded in 1985 by Ed Gorman and Robert Randisi.
In September 2002, Kate Stine and Brian Skupin took over editorial and ownership.« less