Each year, editor Ed Gorman and then together with Martin H. Greenberg cast their net far and wide, across the seas, throughout the world to catch the best-the most suspenseful, most original, intriguing, confounding, downright entertaining stories of crime and mystery. Edgar winners from the U.S., Silver Dagger winners from the U.K., and stories from elsewhere as well come together here in a bountiful crop of great stories by the best in the business.
Volume 3:
Double-Crossing Delancey - S. J. Rozan
Activity in the Hood Plain - Ed McBain
The Only Good Judge - Carolyn Wheat
Speaking of Greed
The California Contact - Clark Howard
Tell Me You Forgive Me? - Joyce Carol Oates
Beautiful - Jeffery Deaver
Unreasonable Doubt - Max Allan Collins
Lucky Devil - Nancy Pickard
The Star Thief - Brendan DuBois
Chip - Bill Pronzini
Come Again? - Donald E. Westlake
Dark Mirror - Lauren Henderson
The Adventure of the Cheshire Cheese - Jon L. Breen
Dry Whiskey - David B. Silva
Countdown - Wolfgang Burger
Old Dog, New Tricks - Robert Barnard
The Wink - Ruth Rendell
Fire Works - Paul Lascaux
Juggernaut - Nancy Springer
Star Struck - Peter Lovesey
Known unto God - Jac. Toes
The Eye of the Beholder - Lillian Stewart Carl
Blind Alley - Mary Jane Maffini
Canon - John Vermeulen
A Well-Respected Man - Margaret Coel
The Girl Who Killed Santa Claus - Val McDermid
The Trebuchet Murder - Susanna Gregory
Turnaround - Carolyn Hart
Out Like a Lion - Bill Crider
The Perfect Man - Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Conscience - Stephan Rykena
Living Next Door to Malice - Billie Rubin
The Good Old German Way - Tatjana Kruse
The Case of the Bloodless Sock - Anne Perry
Blood, Snow, and Classic Cars - Joseph Hansen
The Impostor - Marcia Muller
The Problem of the Yellow Wallpaper - Edward D. Hoch
In the City of Angels - Dick Lochte