There's no mystery to the award-winning success of Warner Books' Mysterious Press: terrific tales well-told by the industry's best writers. Now, in honor of its landmark silver anniversary, Mysterious Press serves up an original short story anthology packed with a who's who of the mystery world.

Contents:

• Introduction: Sara Ann Freed & William Malloy [Ed.s]
• Foreword: Otto Penzler
• Come Again? by Donald E. Westlake • nv
• The Anniversary Waltz by Loren D. Estleman • ss
• Inscrutable by Joe Gores • ss
• The Usual Table by Peter Lovesey • ss
• THEM! by William Marshall • nv
• The Impostor by Marcia Muller • nv
• Activity in the Flood Plain by Ed McBain • nv
• Sometimes Something Goes Wrong • nv by Stuart M. Kaminsky
• Countess Kathleen by Jerome Charyn • nv
• Instinct by Archer Mayor • nv
• What’s in a Name? by Margaret Maron • ss
• Coming Around the Mountain by James Crumley • ss
• Handle with Care by M. C. Beaton • ss
• The Mule Rustlers by Joe R. Lansdale • nv
• Body Zone by Lindsey Davis • nv
• Revision by Robert Greer • ss
• Birdbath by Charlotte Carter • nv
• High Maintenance by Beth Saulnier • nv

Edited by: The Editors of the Mysterious Press [Freed and Malloy]