The Best American Mystery Stories 1999 (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 year’s finest suspense, crime, and mystery writing. Includes the following 19 stories: LAWRENCE BLOCK - Keller’s Last Refuge GARY A. BRAUNBECK - Safe THOMAS H. COOK - Fatherhood JEFFERY DEAVER - Wrong Time, Wrong Place BRENDAN DUBOIS - Netmail LOREN D. ESTLEMAN - Redneck GREGORY FALLIS - And Maybe the Horse Will Learn to Sing TOM FRANKLIN - Poachers VICTOR GISCHLER - Hitting Rufus ED GORMAN - Out There in the Darkness JOSEPH HANSEN - Survival DAVID K. HARFORD - A Death on the Ho Chi Minh Trail GARY KRIST - An Innocent Bystander PHILLIP M. MARGOLIN - The Jailhouse Lawyer JOYCE CAROL OATES - Secret, Silent PETER ROBINSON - In Flanders Fields DAVID B. SILVA - Dry Whiskey L. L. THRASHER - Sacrifice JOHN UPDIKE - Bech Noir Otto Penzler Ed McBain Lawrence Block Gary A. Braunbeck Thomas H. Cook Jeffery Deaver Brendan DuBois Loren D. Estleman Gregory Fallis Tom Franklin Victor Gischler Ed Gorman Joseph Hansen David K. Hartford Gary Krist Philip M. Margolin Joyce Carol Oates Peter Robinson David B. Silva L.L. Thrasher John Updike None None Now that Best American Mystery Stories has its third annual volume, two elements have accrued that were impossible when we were just starting up. Presents a collection of mystery stories selected from magazines in the United States and Canada Nineteen outstanding tales of mystery from the year 1999