The Best of Mystery
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The Best of Mystery: 63 Short Stories Chosen by the Master of Suspense
- published in 1980 in the USA by Galahad Books (hardback)
- edited by Harold Q. Masur
- ISBN 0883656442
- 636 pages
Contents
- Winter Run by Edward D. Hoch
- You Can't Blame Me by Henry Slesar
- A Flower in Her Hair by Pauline C. Smith — from AHMM 13(7)
- The Cost Of Kent Castwell by Avram Davidson
- Pseduo Identity by Lawrence Block
- That Russian! by Jack Ritchie
- Galton and the Yelling Boys by Hillary Waugh — from AHMM 15(3)
- Blind Date by Charles Boeckman
- Pressure by Roderick Wilkinson — from AHMM 13(1)
- The Running Man by Bill Pronzini — from AHMM 13(1)
- The Vietnam Circle by F.J. Kelly
- Sadie When She Died by Ed McBain
- A Very Cautious Boy by Gilbert Ralston
- A Try for the Big Prize by Borden Deal
- Voice in the Night by Robert Colby — from AHMM 14(4)
- Undertaker, Please Drive Slow by Ron Goulart
- Never Shake a Family Tree by Donald E. Westlake
- Here Lies Another Blackmailer by Bill Pronzini
- Dead Duck by Lawrence Treat
- Games for Adults by John Lutz
- Night of the Twisters by James Michael Ullman
- Variations on a Game by Patricia Highsmith
- Child's Play by William Link and Richard Levinson
- Just a Little Impractical Joke by Richard Stark
- Murderer #2 by Jean Potts — from AHMM 6(1)
- The Third Call by Jack Ritchie
- Damon and Pythias and Delilah Brown by Rufus King
- Glory Hunter by Richard M. Ellis — from AHMM 15(8)
- Linda is Gone by Pauline C. Smith
- Frightened Lady by C.B. Gilford
- Come Back, Come Back ... by Donald E. Westlake — from AHMM 5(10)
- Once Upon a Bank Floor by James Holding
- Warrior's Farewell by Edward D. Hoch — from AHMM 12(8)
- Death By Misadventure by Wenzell Brown
- With a Smile for the Ending by Lawrence Block
- Television Country by Charlotte Edwards — from AHMM 7(12)
- Art for Money's Sake by Dan J. Marlowe
- Nothing But Human Nature by Hillary Waugh
- Murder, 1990 by C.B. Gilford — from AHMM 5(10)
- Panther, Panther in the Night by Paul W. Fairman
- Perfectly Timed Plot by E.X. Ferrars
- #8 by Jack Ritchie
- All the Needless Killing by Bryce Walton
- A Melee of Diamonds by Edward D. Hoch
- One for the Crow by Mary Barrett
- Happiness Before Death by Henry Slesar
- I Don't Understand It by Bill Pronzini — from AHMM 17(12)
- News from Nowhere by Ron Goulart
- A Case of Desperation by Kate Wilhelm
- An Interlude for Murder by Paul Tabori
- Death Overdue by Eleanor Daly Boylan
- The Best-Friend Murder by Donald E. Westlake
- Pattern Of Guilt by Helen Nielsen
- A Real, Live Murderer by Donald Honig
- Doctor Apollo by Bryce Walton
- The Pursuer by Holly Roth
- Final Arrangements by Lawrence Page
- Countdown by David Ely — from AHMM 7(2)
- Murder Between Friends by Nedra Tyre
- Case of the Kind Waitress by Henry Slesar
- Ghost of a Chance by Carroll Mayers
- The Montevideo Squeeze by James Holding
- The White Moth by Margaret Chenoweth
