The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories

This 367-page collection of short stories includes: Ruth Rendell (Liar's Dice), Marcia Muller, Sara Paretsky (Settled Score), Lawrence Block, Carole Nelson Douglas (The Maltese Double Cross), Edward D. Hoch, Ed Gorman, Reginald Hill, Michael Z. Lewin, Sharyn McCrumb, Joan Hess (The Last to Know), Barbara Collins and Max Allan Collins (Cat Got Your Tongue), Charlotte MacLeod (The Perplexing Puzzle of the Perfidious Pigeon Poisoner), Loren D. Estleman, Norman Partridge, Jeremiah Healy (The Winfield Trade), Bill Pronzini, Nancy Pickard, Robert Barnard, Peter Lovesey, JUne Thomson, Jan Grape, Barbara D'Amato, Edward Bryant (While She Was Out), and Pat Cadigan (True Faces)