Reviewed By: Harriet Klausner
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1999 The Best American Mystery Stories
Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB
Ed McBain
, Otto Penzler
Class/Genre: Mystery [Short Stories]
Houghton Mifflin, Oct 1999, 455 pp.
Unknown Binding
This yearly collection of short stories in a rather short time (only the third annual anthology) has lived up to its title of being the best. The current collection includes a modern day who's who of American authors that run the gamut of the mystery genre and beyond. Each story works as an exciting entity all its own, but adds to the overall freshness of the collection.
Fans of short stories will love this anthology that includes works by Block, Deaver, Estleman, Gorman, Oates, Updike, etc. among the nineteen tales. 1999 THE BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES is a winning short story collection because the editors widen the genre barriers while including nineteen strong tales. There is not one loser among the contributions.
Harriet Klausner
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