The Year's 25 Finest Crime & Mystery Stories 7th Annual ed. (1998)

✍ Scribed by Edward Gorman, Martin H. Greenberg

• Book ID: 110607381
• Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 367 KB
• Series: The Year's 25 Finest Crime & Mystery Stories 7
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780786705719

✦ Synopsis

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 Soldier—JEFFERY DEAVER

Speak No Evil—NANCY PICKARD

Solo—MARCIA MULLER

Psychofemmes—MELISSA MIA HALL

Blood Brothers—RICHARD T. CHIZMAR

Ways to Kill a Cat—SIMON BRETT

The Horseshoe Nail—BILL PRONZINI

Bird of Paradise—JOHN HARVEY

A Front-Row Seat—JAN GRAPE

A Long and Happy Life—DELORIS STANTON FORBES

Night Crawlers—JOHN LUTZ

Remembrance—CAROLYN G. HART

Tea for Two—M. D. LAKE

On The Psychiatrist’s Couch—REGINALD HILL

The Easter Cat—BILL CRIDER

Call Me Walt—JERRY SYKES

Cold Turkey—CAROLE NELSON DOUGLAS

Death Cup—JOYCE CAROL OATES

Love Me for My Yellow Hair Alone—CAROLYN WHEAT

The Clock That Counts the Dead—EDWARD BRYANT

Take It Away—DONALD E. WESTLAKE

The Man Who Beat the System—STUART M. KAMINSKY

Keller on the Spot—LAWRENCE BLOCK

The House on the Edge—D. A. MCGUIRE

Crimson Shadow—WALTER MOSLEY