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

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:

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