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By Hook or By Crook: and 27 More of the Best Crime and Mystery Stories of the Year
By Hook or By Crook and 27 More of the Best Crime and Mystery Stories of the Year Author:Ed Gorman (Editor), Martin Greenberg (Editor) In this annual ongoing staple of the crime fiction world, Ed Gorman and Martin Greenberg collect the best short crime fiction of 2009. -- Now known as: The Best Crime & Mystery Stories of the Year series. -- The series was previously titled 'The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories' (First thru Fifth Editions... more », 2000 thru 2004).
Contents:
The Mystery in 2009 / Jon L. Breen;
Animal Rescue / Dennis LeHane;
Family Affair (a Smokey Dalton story) / Kris Nelscott;
Survival Instincts / Sandra Seamans;
Julius Katz / Dave Zeltserman;
Seeing the Moon / S. J. Rozan;
Dark Chocolate / Nancy Pickard;
Telegraphing / Marcia Muller;
The Valhalla Verdict / Doug Allyn;
Pure Pulp / Bill Crider;
Blood Sacrifices and the Catatonic Kid / Tom Picirrilli;
Patterns / Richard Lupoff;
The Tell-tale Purr / Mary Higgins Clark;
The Big Switch (a Mike Hammer story) / Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins;
Crazy Larry Smells Bacon / Greg Bardsley;
Femme Sole / Dana Cameron;
The Dark Island / Brendan Dubois;
The Caretaker / Terence Faherty;
The Case of the Colonel Crockett's Violin / Gillian Linscott;
The case of Colonel Warburton's Madness / Lyndsay Faye;
Time Will Tell / Twist Phelan;
By Hook or By Crook / Charlie Dress;
The Final Nail (a Val O'Farrell story) / Bob Randisi;