In this new and affordable volume are the best short mystery stories of the year as selected from magazines and anthologies.

Mystery: The Best of 2002 is a collection of the best mystery prose written in 2002 by some of the genre's greatest writers.

CONTENTS
Introduction by Jon L. Breen
"To Live and Die in Midland, Texas" by Clark Howard
"The Adventure of the Agitated Actress" by Daniel Stashower
"An Unkindness of Ravens" by Donna Andrews
"Twilight's Last Gleaming" by Michael Collins
"A Girl Named Charlie" by Stanley Cohen
"Bless Me Father for I Have Sinned" by Ed Gorman
"War Can Be Murder" by Mike Doogan
"The Painted Lady" by DeLoris Stanton Forbes
"The Dead Their Eyes Implore Us" by George P. Pelecanos
"Moody's Blues" by Hal Charles
"Mom Lights A Candle" by James Yaffe
"If All is Dark" by Mat Coward
"Ukulele and the World's Pain" by James Sallis