[The Year's Finest Crime and Mystery Stories 1992] • The Year's 25 Finest Crime & Mystery Stories 2nd Annual Ed. (1993)

The stories by the mystery genre's best writers, such as Tony Hillerman, Lawrence Block, P. D James, Ruth Rendell and Ray Bradbury, are compiled into an anthology of twenty-five of the year's most suspenseful stories.

Contents:

Introduction: The Mystery in 1992 by Jon L. Breen

Someday I'll Plant More Walnut Trees by Lawrence Block

The Winfield Trade by Jeremiah Healy

Liar's Dice by Bill Pronzini

Long Live the Queen by Ruth Rendell

Lazy Susan by Nancy Pickard

A Hotel in Bucharest by Robert Barnard

The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown by Peter Lovesey

Secrets by June Thomson

Whatever Has To Be Done by Jan Grape

Stop, Thief! by Barbara D'Amato

While She Was Out by Edward Bryant

True Faces by Pat Cadigan

The Perplexing Puzzle of the Perfidious Pigeon Poisoner by Charlotte MacLeod

Cat Got Your Tongue by Barbara Collins and Max Allan Collins

The Last to Know by Joan Hess

The Man Who Loved Noir by Loren D. Estleman

Johnny Halloween by Norman Partridge

The Maltese Double Cross by Carole Nelson Douglas

Benny's Space by Marcia Muller

Settled Score by Sara Paretsky

The Theft of the Barking Dog by Edward D. Hoch

A Predatory Woman by Sharyn McCrumb

Wedding Bells by Michael Z. Lewin

Proxime Accessit by Reginald Hill

The Wind from Midnight by Ed Gorman