Each year, Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg, editors of The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, have reached farther past the boundaries of the United States to find the very best suspense from the world over. In this third volume of their series they have included stories from Germany, Belgium, and the United Kingdom as well as, of course, a number of fine stories from the U.S.A. Among these tales are winners of the Edgar Award, the Silver Dagger Award of the British Crime Writers, and other major awards in the field.

In addition, here are reports on the field of mystery and crime writing from correspondents in the U.S. (Jon L. Breen), England (Maxim Jakubowski), Canada (Edo Van Belkom), Australia (David Honeybone), and Germany (Thomas Woertche).

Altogether, with nearly 250,000 words of the best short suspense published in 2001, this bounteous volume is, as the Wall Street Journal said of the previous year’s compilation, “the best value-for-money of any such anthology.”

Contents:

• Acknowledgements
• The Year in Mystery and Crime Fiction: 2001 by Jon L. Breen
• A 2001 Yearbook of Mystery and Crime by Edward D. Hoch
• World Mystery Report: Great Britain by Maxim Jakubowski
• World Mystery Report: Australia by David Honeybone
• World Mystery Report: Canada by Edo van Belkom
• World Mystery Report: Germany by Thomas Wöertche
• The Year 2001 in Mystery Fandom by George A. Easter
• Double-Crossing Delancey [Lydia Chin] by S.J. Rozan
• Activity in the Flood Plain by Ed McBain
• The Only Good Judge by Carolyn Wheat
• Speaking of Greed by Lawrence Block
• The California Contact by Clark Howard
• Tell Me You Forgive Me? by Joyce Carol Oates
• Beautiful by Jeffery Deaver
• Unreasonable Doubt [Nate Heller] by Max Allan Collins
• Lucky Devil by Nancy Pickard
• The Star Thief by Brendan DuBois
• Chip by Bill Pronzini
• Come Again? by Donald E. Westlake
• Dark Mirror by Lauren Henderson
• The Adventure of the Cheshire Cheese [Sherlock Holmes] by Jon L. Breen
• Dry Whiskey by David B. Silva
• Countdown by Wolfgang Burger
• Old Dog, New Tricks by Robert Barnard
• The Wink by Ruth Rendell
• Fire Works by Paul Lascaux
• Juggernaut by Nancy Springer
• Star Struck by Peter Lovesey
• Known Unto God by Jac. Toes
• The Eye of the Beholder by Lillian Stewart Carl
• Blind Alley by Mary Jane Maffini
• Canon by John Vermeulen
• A Well-Respected Man by Margaret Coel
• The Girl Who Killed Santa Claus by Val McDermid
• The Trebuchet Murder by Susanna Gregory
• Turnaround by Carolyn Hart
• Out Like a Lion by Bill Crider
• The Perfect Man by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• Conscience by Stephen Rykena
• Living Next Door to Malace by Billie Rubin
• The Good Old German Way by Tatjana Kruse
• The Case of the Bloodless Sock [Sherlock Holmes] by Anne Perry
• Blood, Snow, and Classic Cars by Joseph Hansen
• The Impostor by Marcia Muller
• The Problem of the Yellow Wallpaper [Dr. Sam Hawthorne] by Edward D. Hoch
• In the City of Angels by Dick Lochte
• Honorable Mentions by Angela Zeman
• About the Editors

Edited by: Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg.