Synopses & Reviews
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 years 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
About the Author
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.OTTO PENZLER is a renowned mystery editor, publisher, columnist, and owner of New York's The Mysterious Bookshop, the oldest and largest bookstores solely dedicated to mystery fiction. He has edited more than fifty crime-fiction anthologies.
Table of Contents
Foreword Introduction by Ed McBain Keller's Last Refuge by Lawrence Block Safe by Gary Braunbeck Fatherhood by Thomas Cook Wrong Time, Wrong Place by Jeffrey Deaver Netmail by Brendan Dubois Redneck by Loren 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 Harford An Innocent Bystander by Gary Krist The Jailhouse Lawyer by Phillip M. Margolin Secret, Silent by Joyce Carol Oates In Flanders Field by Peter Robinson Dry Whiskey by David B. Silva Sacrifice by L.L.Thrasher Bech Noirs by John Updike Contributors' Notes