The Best American
Mystery Stories
Book Details
Best-selling novelist Lee Child edits this latest collection of the genre's finest from the past year. Featuring "gritty tales told with panache," this is a "must-read for anybody who cares about crime stories" (Booklist).
Foreword
Introduction by Lee Child
Charlie and the Pirates
The Emerald Coast
An Early Christmas
Maynard
Dredge
A Jury of his Peers
Designer Justice
The Cross-Eyed Bear
The Case of Colonel Warburton's Madness
The First Rule Is
Killing Time
Animal Rescue
Tell Me
The House on Pine Terrace
Bias
Bismarck Rules
Ed Luby's Key Club
Custom Sets
The Shipbreaker
Blood and Dirt
Contributors' Notes
Other Distinguished Stories of 2009
Other distinguished submissions on this topic, selected by the series editor Otto Penzler.
A
Albert E. Cowdrey
from Fantasy & Science Fiction, August/September.
Art Taylor
from Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, August.
B
Beth Mayer
from The Sun, July.
Brian Haycock
from Amarillo Bay.
C
Christopher Bundy
from Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, May.
D
Dana Cameron
from Boston Noir, Ed. By Dennis Lehane (Akashic).
Dave Zeltserman
from Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, September/October.
David Black
from Notre Dame Review, Summer/Fall.
Don Winslow
from Phoenix Noir, Patrick Milliken, Ed. (Akashic).
E
Elizabeth McCracken
from Zoetrope All-story, Winter.
F
G
George C. Chesbro
from Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, June.
Gregg Hurwitz
from Uncage Me, Ed. Jen Jordan (Bleak House).
H
I
J
James Lincoln Warren
from Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, January/February.
Janet E. Irvin
from Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, January/February.
John M. Floyd
from Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, July/August.
Jonathan Selwood
from Seattle Noir, Curt Colbert, Ed. (Akashic).
Judy Doenges
from The Kenyon Review, Fall.
K
L
Lou Manfredo
from Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, August.
M
Marlin Barton
from The Sewanee Review, Summer.
Mattox Roesch
from The Sun, September.
Morley Swingle
from The Prosecution Rests, Linda Fairstein, Ed. (Little, Brown).
N
Neil Connelly
from Grist, #2.
O
P
Q
R
R.T. Smith
from Grist, #2.
Robert Coover
from Conjunctions, #53.
Robert Ferrigno
from Thriller 2, Clive Cussler, Ed. (Mira).
Ron Hansen
from Tin House, Vol. 10, #2.
S
Scott Wolven
from Thuglit, November/December.
Shane Nelson
from Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, February.
T
Taylor Brown
from Thuglit, November/December.
Tim Maleeny
from Uncage Me, Jen Jordan, Ed. (Bleak House).
U
V
W
Wallace Stroby
from Inside Jersey, August.
X
Y
Z
Z. Kelley
from Two Of The Deadliest, Elizabeth George, Ed. (Harper).
