It's a Mason-Dixon line-up! From the cypress swamps of Louisiana to the sunny coast of the Carolinas, from the neon glitz of New Orleans to the mist-shrouded mountains of old West Virginia, Death in Dixie brings a most southern flavor to murder--with stories from Edgar Award-winner Julie Smith, Agatha Award-winner Joan Hess and eleven other masters.

Contents:

• Thrown-Away Child (1986) by Thomas Adcock
• The Cobblestones of Saratoga Street (1964) by Avram Davidson
• Sail (1936) by Lester Dent
• The Maggody Files: Hillbilly Cat (1992) by Joan Hess
• Brothers on the Beach (1984) by Edward D. Hoch
• All the Heroes Are Dead (1982) by Clark Howard
• Here Be Monsters (1995) by Lisa Lepovetsky
• The Right to Sing the Blues (1983) by John Lutz
• A Wee Doch and Doris (1989) by Sharyn McCrumb
• Down-Home Remedies (1983) by Billie Sue Mosiman
• The Gold-Bug (1943) by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Vital Element (1967) by Talmage Powell
• Hunter and the Widow (1984) by D.L. Richardson
• Crime Wave in Pinhole (1980) by Julie Smith
• Come Down from the Hills (1987) by John F. Suter