The Best American Mystery Stories: 1998

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0395835852 ISBN 13: 9780395835852

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (Trade), 1999

This year's guest editor, Sue Grafton, has put together a wonderfully diverse collection of stories to surprise and satisfy all fans of the genre. In this volume, best-selling writers such as Mary Higgins Clark, Walter Mosley, Lawrence Block, Jay McInerney, and Donald E. Westlake stand alongside an impressive array of new talent. As Grafton writes in her introduction, "Nowhere is iniquity, wrongdoing, and reparation more satisfying to behold than in the well-crafted yarns spun by the writers represented here."

Already a bestseller in its first year, this year's collection of "The Best American Mystery Stories" promises to keep readers intrigued and coming back for more.

About the Author:

OTTO PENZLER is a renowned mystery editor, publisher, columnist, and owner of New York's The Mysterious Bookshop, the oldest and largest bookstore solely dedicated to mystery fiction. He has edited more than fifty crime-fiction anthologies. He lives in New York.

Synopsis:

Presents a collection of mystery stories selected from magazines in the United States and Canada.