The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories: 3: Third Annual Collection (World's Finest Mystery & Crime 3)

More than 200000 words of great crime and suspense fiction. Each year Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg editors of The Worlds 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 250000 words of the best short suspense published in 2001 this bounteous volume is as the Wall Street Journal said of the previous years compilation the best value-for-money of any such anthology.. The A-to-Z of the authors should excite the interest of any mystery reader:Robert Barnard • Lawrence Block • Jon L. Breen • Wolfgang Burger • Lillian Stewart Carl • Margaret Coel • Max Allan Collins • Bill Crider • Jeffery Deaver • Brendan DuBois • Susanna Gregory • Joseph Hansen • Carolyn G. Hart • Lauren Henderson • Edward D. Hoch • Clark Howard • Tatjana Kruse • Paul Lascaux • Dick Lochte • Peter Lovesey • Mary Jane Maffini • Ed McBain • Val McDermid • Marcia Muller • Joyce Carol Oates • Anne Perry • Nancy Pickard • Bill Pronzini • Ruth Rendell • S. J. Rozan • Billie Rubin • Kristine Kathryn Rusch • Stephan Rykena • David B. Silva • Nancy Springer • Jac. Toes • John Vermeulen • Donald E. Westlake • Carolyn Wheat.