The Best American Mystery Stories 1999

by Ed McBain, Otto Penzler

On Sale: 10/29/1999

The Best American Mystery Stories 1999

by Ed McBain, Otto Penzler

On Sale: 10/29/1999

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About the Book

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 year’s 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

Critical Praise

Mystery has always been a form that plays especially well as spoken audio--given its often succinct characters, hard-boiled dialogue and plot-driven structure--so this unusually intelligent collection is a real pleasure.
Publishers Weekly, Starred —

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Product Details

  • ISBN: 9780395939154
  • ISBN 10: 0395939151
  • Imprint: William Morrow Paperbacks
  • On Sale: 10/29/1999
  • Pages: 480
  • List Price:31.99 CAD
  • BISAC1 : LITERARY COLLECTIONS / American / General
  • BISAC2 : LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays
  • BISAC3 : FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Collections & Anthologies

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