The Best American Mystery Stories

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 years 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