The Best American Mystery Stories 1999 Paperback - 1999
by Ed McBain; Otto Penzler
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Bestselling suspense novelist Ed McBain has chosen 20 outstanding tales by such literary luminaries as John Updike, Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, Jeffrey Deaver, and Lawrence Block, in a spectacular showcase for the high quality and broad diversity of the year's finest suspense, crime, and mystery writing.
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- Title The Best American Mystery Stories 1999
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition Th
- Condition New
- Pages 480
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, Wilmington, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
- Date 1999
- Features Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0395939151I2N00
- ISBN 9780395939154 / 0395939151
- Weight 1.35 lbs (0.61 kg)
- Dimensions 8.4 x 5.4 x 1.2 in (21.34 x 13.72 x 3.05 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Mystery fiction, Short stories
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98641601
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
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
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Citations
- Booklist, 09/01/1999, Page 70
- Ingram Advance, 10/01/1999, Page 22
- Kirkus Reviews, 10/01/1999, Page 1528
- Library Journal, 10/01/1999, Page 139
- Publishers Weekly, 08/30/1999, Page 55
