Included in this selection of crime and myst ery short stories are pieces written by Sara Paretsky, Marci a Muller, Ruth Rendell and Bill Pronzini. The stories cover every kind of modern crime setting. '
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Editorial Reviews
From Library Journal
This latest collection contains the usual bibliography of new collections and anthologies, lists of award winners, and necrology. Included are contributions by the likes of Anne Perry, Donald Westlake, and Marcia Muller, but only two stories also appear in The Best American Mystery Stories 1997 (reviewed above). Libraries will want both.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Kirkus Reviews
Regional humorist Hess (The Maggody Militia, p. 175, etc.) joins series editors Gorman and Greenberg for this sixth annual roundup. Though the numbers of original collections helpfully listed by Jon L. Breen and Edward D. Hoch suggest that it's been a bumper year for short mystery fiction, a few formulas (the schemer outschemed, the just vengeance, the psychopathology of everyday life) predominate, so that the keynote here is professional accomplishment--reliable entertainers like Ruth Rendell, Marcia Muller, Ed McBain, Reginald Hill, Donald E. Westlake, and Sara Paretsky buff their wares to a high sheen- -without any particular originality. The exceptions, as always, are worth the money: Walter Satterthwait's secret-ingredient cassoulet, David Corn's macabre fictional confessional, Alan Russell's prison bridal tale, Bill Pronzini's paranoid suburban vignette. But the best story of all, S.J. Rozan's inner-city whodunit ``Hoops,'' is in many ways the most traditional. Clearly the best-edited annual, though not as distinctive in its choices as its latest competitor (see below). -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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