The seventh edition of the annual series gathers twenty-five of the finest specimens of short crime stories published in 1997, exhibiting the talents of such top writers as Lawrence Block, Stuart Kaminsky, Joyce Carol Oates, and Bill Pronzini. **Includes the following 25 stories:** The Kneeling So
The Year's 25 Finest Crime & Mystery Stories 2nd Annual Ed. (1993)
✍ Scribed by Mystery Scene Staff
- Book ID
- 110607328
- Publisher
- Avalon Publishing Group
- Year
- 1993
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 299 KB
- Series
- The Year's 25 Finest Crime & Mystery Stories 2
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780881849998
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✦ Synopsis
These collections of stories will inspire laughter, tears and reflection and each tale is told with a master's hand for character, plot, suspense and mood.
The Year's 25 Finest Crime & Mystery Stories 2nd Annual Ed. (1993)
Someday I’ll Plant More Walnut Trees—LAWRENCE BLOCK
The Winfield Trade—JEREMIAH HEALY
Liar’s Dice—BILL PRONZINI
Long Live the Queen—RUTH RENDELL
Lazy Susan—NANCY PICKARD
A Hotel in Bucharest—ROBERT BARNARD
The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown—PETER LOVESEY
Secrets—JUNE THOMSON
Whatever Has To Be Done—JAN GRAPE
Stop, Thief!—BARBARA D’AMATO
While She Was Out—EDWARD BRYANT
True Faces—PAT CADIGAN
The Perplexing Puzzle of the Perfidious Pigeon Poisoner—FROM THE MEMOIRS OF CHARLOTTE MacLEOD, DETECTIVE
Cat Got Your Tongue—BARBARA COLLINS AND MAX ALLAN COLLINS
The Last to Know—JOAN HESS
The Man Who Loved Noir—LOREN D. ESTLEMAN
Johnny Halloween—NORMAN PARTRIDGE
The Maltese Double Cross—CAROLE NELSON DOUGLAS
Benny’s Space—MARCIA MULLER
Settled Score—SARA PARETSKY
The Theft of the Barking Dog—EDWARD D. HOCH
A Predatory Woman—SHARYN McCRUMB
Wedding Bells—MICHAEL Z. LEWIN
Proxime Accessit—REGINALD HILL
The Wind from Midnight—ED GORMAN
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