The line-up: three New York Times bestselling authors, four Edgar Award winners, and other critically acclaimed past presidents of the Private Eye Writers of America.

THE DETECTIVES: the authors' most famous P.I.s.
THE STORIES: the authors' personal favorites.
PLUS: a special behind-the-crime-scene introduction to each author's creative process.

Contents:

• Introduction · Robert J. Randisi · in
• Wrong Place, Wrong Time [Nameless private eye] · Bill Pronzini · ss *
• The Merciful Angel of Death [Matt Scudder] · Lawrence Block · ss New Mystery, ed. Jerone Charyn, Dutton, 1993
• Eighty Million Dead [Dan Fortune] · Michael Collins · ss The Eyes Have It, ed. Robert J. Randisi, Mysterious Press, 1984
• Deadly Beloved [Joe Puma] · William Campbell Gault · na Manhunt Oct ’56
• Second Story Sunlight [Alo Nudger] · John Lutz · nv *
• A Poison That Leaves No Trace [Kinsey Millhone] · Sue Grafton · ss Sisters in Crime 2, ed. Marilyn Wallace, Berkley, 1990
• Aftermath [Rory Calhoun] · Jeremiah Healy · nv *
• The Pig Man [Saxon] · Les Roberts · ss Deadly Allies II, ed. Robert J. Randisi & Susan Dunlap, Doubleday, 1994
• Faking It [Stanley Hastings] · Parnell Hall · nv *
• Laying Down to Die [Nick Delvecchio] · Robert J. Randisi · nv Deadly Allies II, ed. Robert J. Randisi & Susan Dunlap, Doubleday, 1994
• The Maltese Cat [V.I. Warshawski] · Sara Paretsky · nv Sisters in Crime 3, ed. Marilyn Wallace, Berkley, 1990
• Natural Death, Inc. [Nate Heller] · Max Allan Collins · nv Diagnosis Dead, ed. Jonathan Kellerman, Pocket, 1999