Mystery: The Best of 2002

A collection of the best mystery prose written in 2002, by some of the genre's greatest writers. Continuing the prestigious new series from ibooks are the best short mystery stories of the year as selected from magazines and anthologies. Editor Jon L. Breen is the Edgar Award-winning author of WHAT ABOUT MURDER? A GUIDE TO BOOKS ABOUT MYSTERY AND DETECTIVE FICTION and DROWNING ICE CUBE AND OTHER STORIES

Includes the following 13 stories:

TO LIVE AND DIE IN MIDLAND, TEXAS—Clark Howard

THE ADVENTURE OF THE AGITATED ACTRESS—Daniel Stashower

AN UNKINDNESS OF RAVENS—Donna Andrews

TWILIGHT’S LAST GLEAMING—Michael Collins

A GIRL NAMED CHARLIE—Stanley Cohen

BLESS ME FATHER FOR I HAVE SINNED—Ed Gorman

WAR CAN BE MURDER—Mike Doogan

THE PAINTED LADY—DeLoris Stanton Forbes

THE DEAD THEIR EYES IMPLORE US—George P. Pelecanos

MOODY’S BLUES—Hal Charles

MOM LIGHTS A CANDLE—James Yaffe

IF ALL IS DARK—Mat Coward

UKULELE AND THE WORLD’S PAIN—James Sallis