The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories: 4 Fourth Annual Collection

by Gorman, Ed; Greenberg, Martin H.

• ISBN13: 9780765308498
• ISBN10: 0765308495
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-09-13
• Publisher: Forge Books

Summary

More than 200,000 words of the best mystery and suspense fiction from around the world The world's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories Each year, editors Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg cast their net far and wide, across the seas, throughout the world to catch the best-the most suspenseful, most original, intriguing, confounding, downright entertaining stories of crime and mystery. Edgar winners from the U.S., Silver Dagger winners from the U.K., and stories from elsewhere as well come together here in a bountiful crop of great stories by the best in the business, including Lawrence Block - Jon L. Breen - Stanley Cohen - Bill Crider - Jeffery Deaver - Jeremiah Healy - Clark Howard - Susan Isaacs - John Lutz - Sharyn McCrumb - Ralph McInerny - Anne Perry - Bill Pronzini - Donald E. Westlake and many others. This book's a killer!

Author Biography

Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg have edited a number of anthologies, singly and together. Gorman is a Shamus Award winner for his own hard-boiled suspense; Greenberg has been behind numerous successful books, mystery and suspense, science fiction, and fantasy. Ed Gorman lives in Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Martin H. Greenberg lives in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

Table of Contents

THE YEAR IN MYSTERY AND CRIME FICTION: 2002
Jon L. Breen	15	(12)
A 2002 YEARBOOK OF CRIME AND MYSTERY
Edward D. Hoch	27	(14)
WORLD MYSTERY REPORT: GREAT BRITAIN
Maxim Jakubowski	41	(6)
WORLD MYSTERY REPORT: CANADA
Edo van Belkom	47	(2)
WORLD MYSTERY REPORT: GERMANY
Thomas Wörtche	49	(6)
TO LIVE AND DIE IN MIDLAND, TEXAS
Clark Howard	55	(22)
RULES OF THE GAME
Kate Wilhelm	77	(8)
THE WAGON MOUND
Val McDermid	85	(8)
GHOST WRITER
Janice Law	93	(14)
MY COUSIN RACHEL'S UNCLE MURRAY
Susan Isaacs	107	(30)
TOP OF THE WORLD
Bill Crider	137	(14)
ERE I KILLED THEE
Anne Perry	151	(18)
THE PANAMA HEN
Gesine Schulz	169	(8)
GRACIOUS SILENCE
Gillian Linscott	177	(12)
COLD-BLOODED
Stephan Rykena	189	(6)
LEAD ... FOLLOW
Jac. Toes	195	(12)
TWO SISTERS
Frauke Schuster	207	(6)
BAREFOOT
Chris Rippen	213	(14)
THOSE ARE PEARLS THAT WERE HIS EYES
Carole Nelson Douglas	227	(24)
A MIMICRY OF MOCKINGBIRDS
Lillian Stewart Carl	251	(20)
THE TWIN
Brad Reynolds	271	(14)
THE VAMPIRE THEME
Edward D. Hoch	285	(12)
THE DEVIL THAT WALKS AT NOONDAY
Ralph McInerny	297	(10)
THE MURDER BALLADS
Doug Allyn	307	(32)
THE VALE OF THE WHITE HORSE
Sharyn McCrumb	339	(16)
A GIRL NAMED CHARLIE
Stanley Cohen	355	(12)
THE ADVENTURE OF THE MOONING SENTRY
Jon L. Breen	367	(14)
SECOND STORY SUNLIGHT
John Lutz	381	(14)
A MOMENT OF WRONG THINKING
Lawrence Block	395	(14)
TOO MANY COOKS
Marcia Talley	409	(16)
THE PATH To THE SHROUD
Robert Barnard	425	(8)
CLOSER TO THE FLAME
Jerry Sykes	433	(14)
CHALELE
John Vermeulen	447	(10)
WRONG PLACE, WRONG TIME
Bill Pronzini	457	(8)
FLEETING FASHION
Bob Mendes	465
FLYING FAST
Piet Teigeler	417	(68)
THE BEST TIME FOR PLANTING
Ina Coelen	485	(6)
THE MONEY TO FEED THEM
Martin Spiegelberg	491	(14)
MEXICAN GATSBY
Raymond Stefiber	505	(14)
THREE KILLINGS AND A FAVOR
Joan Waites	519	(8)
WAR CAN BE MURDER
Mike Doogan	527	(16)
THE ADVENTURE OF THE AGITATED ACTRESS
Daniel Stashower	543	(18)
TWO IN THE SAME BOAT
Anke Gebert	561	(8)
AFTERMATH
Jeremiah Healy	569	(16)
WHISPERS OF THE DEAD
Peter Tremayne	585	(20)
AN EMPIRE'S REACH
Brendan DuBois	605	(12)
SURVEILLANCE
Jeffery Deaver	617	(18)
THE 2002 EDGAR ALLAN POE MYSTERY FICTION SHORT-LIST	635	(2)
ABOUT THE EDITORS	637