Edited by Lawrence Block.

Featuring today's top writers and the masters who inspired them.

Contents:

• Puppyland (1996) by Doug Allyn
• Child of Another Time (1983) by William Bankier
• The Man Next Door (1997) by Mary Higgins Clark
• The Tell-Tale Heart (1843) by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Criminal (1970) by Joe Gores
• The Knife (1925) by John Russell
• True Thomas (1993) by Reginald Hill
• Markheim (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Detective’s Wife (1990) by Edward D. Hoch
• You Can’t Be a Little Girl All Your Life (1958) by Stanley Ellin
• The Last One to Cry (1986) by Clark Howard
• The Absence of Emily (1981) by Jack Ritchie
• The Interview (1971) by Evan Hunter
• Eleven O’Clock Bulletin (1955) by Robert Turner
• Adele (1995) by Stuart Kaminsky
• The Death of Colonel Thoureau (1861) Anonymous
• Foggy Mountain Breakdown (1997) by Sharyn McCrumb
• Sredni Vashtar (1910) by Saki
• Lover (1977) by Joyce Carol Oates
• The Black Cat (1843) by Edgar Allan Poe
• Adventures in Babysitting (1995) by Ian Rankin
• No Night by Myself (1995) by Mat Coward
• Cousin Cora (1990) by Carolyn Wheat
• A Jury of Her Peers (1917) by Susan Glaspell
• Sometimes They Bite (1976) by Lawrence Block
• Cry Silence (1948) by Fredric Brown