The World's Finest Mystery Crime Stories - 2nd Annual Collection Author:Ed Gorman (Editor) 2001- The World's Finest Mystery & Crime Stories (2nd Annual Collection) — A Banquet of Mystery and Crime Fiction. It's not easy to collect, in a single volume, the finest mystery and suspense fiction the world has to offer. In his Second Annual collection, Ed Gorman once again brings together the year's most powerful fiction. More than 200,000 w... more »ords of superlative mystery and suspense fiction from around the world. Immerse yourself in stories that baffle, tantalize, and delight.
Contents:
* The Year in Mystery and Crime Fiction: 2000 / Jon L. Breen;
* A 2000 Yearbook of Mystery and Crime / Edward D. Hoch;
* World Mystery Report: Great Britain / Maxim Jakubowski;
* World Mystery Report: Australia / David Honeybone & Lucy Sussex;
* World Mystery Report: Canada / Edo van Belkom;
* World Mystery Report: Germany / Thomas W?ertche;
* The 2000 Short Story Edgar Awards / Camille Minichino;
* The Year 2000 in Mystery Fandom / George A. Easter;
-- The Summer People / Brendan DuBois ? ss EQMM Nov, 2000;
-- Afraid of the Dark / Nancy Pickard ? nv The Night Awakens, ed. Mary Higgins Clark 2000;
-- For All the Saints / Gillian Linscott ? ss Chronicles of Crime: The Second Ellis Peters Memorial Anthology of Historical Crime, ed. Maxim Jakubowski 1999;
-- Lets Get Lost (Matt Scudder) / Lawrence Block ? ss EQMM Sep/Oct, 2000;
-- Under Suspicion / Clark Howard ? nv EQMM Mar, 2000;
-- Childhood / S. J. Rozan ? ss Compulsion (e-book), Mightywords.com, 2000;
-- Art & Craft (John Dortmunder) / Donald E. Westlake ? ss Playboy Aug, 2000;
-- The Allotment / Peter Crowther ? ss Northern Blood III, ed. Martin Edwards 1998;
-- Twelve of the Little Buggers / Mat Coward ? ss EQMM Jan, 2000;
-- Missing in Action (Frank Bascombe Special Constable) / Peter Robinson ? nv EQMM Nov, 2000;
-- The Haggard Society / Edward D. Hoch ? nv The Night Awakens, ed. Mary Higgins Clark 2000;
-- Scorpion's Kiss / Stuart M. Kaminsky ? ss, 2000; "Der Skorpion in der Waage", Aszendent Mord, Germany 2000;
-- Noble Causes / Bob Mendes ? ss, 2000; "Nobele Deleinden", de Standaard 2000 (Dutch);
-- The Sleeping Detective (Ivan Monk) / Gary Phillips ? nv Shamus Game, ed. Robert J. Randisi 2000;
-- A Night in the Manchester Store / Stanley Cohen ? nv Murder Among Friends, The Adams Round Table 2000;
-- What Mr. McGregor Saw / Dorothy Cannell ? ss Malice Domestic 9, Joan Hess 2000;
-- Delta Double-Deal / Noreen Ayres ? nv The Night Awakens, ed. Mary Higgins Clark 2000;
-- Three Nil / Mat Coward ? ss EQMM Nov, 2000;
-- The Man in the Civil Suit / Jan Burke ? ss Malice Domestic 9, Joan Hess 2000;
-- Black and White Memories / Robert J. Randisi ? ss Compulsion (e-book), Mightywords.com, 2000;
-- Nothing to Lose / Robert Barnard ? ss Malice Domestic 9, Joan Hess 2000;
-- Widowers Walk (Hack Bohannon) / Joseph Hansen ? nv AHMM Jan, 2000;
-- Character Flaw (Robbie Stanton) / Christine Matthews ? nv Shamus Game, ed. Robert J. Randisi;
-- Golden Gate Bridge-A View from Below / Jurgen Ehlers ? ss Scenes of Crime, ed. Martin Edwards 2000;
-- Boo / Richard Laymon ? nv October Dreams, ed. Richard Chizmar & Robert Morrish 2000;
-- Veterans / John Lutz ? ss Murder Most Confederate, ed. Martin H. Greenberg 2000;
-- The Abbey Ghosts / Jan Burke ? nv AHMM Jan, 2001;
-- The Country of the Blind / Doug Allyn ? nv Murder Most Medieval, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & John Helfers 2000;
-- Happiness / Joyce Carol Oates ? ss EQMM Aug, 2000;
-- The Confession / Ian Rankin ? ss EQMM Jun, 2000;
-- The Perfectionist Peter Lovesey ? ss The Strand Magazine #4, 2000;
-- The Wall Too High (Michael Vlado) / Edward D. Hoch ? ss EQMM Jun, 2000;