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The Adventure of the Missing Detective: And 19 of the Year's Finest Crime and Mystery Stories!
The Adventure of the Missing Detective And 19 of the Year's Finest Crime and Mystery Stories Author:Ed Gorman (Editor), Martin H. Greenberg (Editor) From traditional mystery stories with devious doings and a plot full of clues to terse thrillers with edge-of-the-seat climaxes to the nail-biting tale of psychological suspense, no field of popular fiction can match contemporary crime writing in diversity, excitement, cunning, or satisfaction. In this stunning collection of the year's best ... more »offerings in the genre, armchair detectives, suspense addicts, and crime solvers alike can thrill to new stories by Edward D. Hoch, Carolyn Wheat, Jeffrey Deaver, Stuart Kaminsky, Val McDermid, Laura Lippman, Joyce Carol Oates, and Max Allen Collins, in the unique way only mystery fiction can provide.
* The series was previously titled The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories (First thru Fifth Editions, 2000 thru 2004).
* In 2005, the publishers changed the series title, choosing to highlight an individual story, and adding for 2005: And 19 of the Year's Finest Crime and Mystery Stories, -but it's the same great series.« less