The Year's 25 Finest Crime & Mystery Stories; Sixth Annual Ed, ed. Joan Hess, Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg (0786704950; Hardcover; Carroll & Graf, October 1997)


Introduction				 xi
 Jon Breen

THE DARK SNOW				  1
 Brendan Du Bois
THE ESCAPE				 18
 Anne Perry
CLOTHES					 30
 Ruth Rendell
THE CRACKS IN THE SIDEWALK		 39
 Marcia Muller
DEAD DRUNK				 51
 Lia Matera
RUNNING FROM LEGS			 66
 Ed McBain
THE CASSOULET				 87
 Walter Satterthwait
TOAD CROSSING				 96
 John Lutz and David August
WILD HORSES				101
 Sam Pizzo
THE LAST WORD				108
 Maude Miller
MY MURDER				119
 David Corn
THE NARROW HOUSE			141
 Edward D. Hoch
MARRIED TO A MURDERER			153
 Alan Russell
THE PERFECT MURDER CLUB			160
 Reginald Hill
KISS THE SKY				171
 James Grady
INTENT TO KILL				201
 Monica Quill
THE GIRL WHO TALKED TO HORSES		209
 Robert J. Randisi
STALKING HORSE				225
 Susan B. Kelly
A GOOD THING				231
 Simon Brett
HOOPS					247
 S.J. Rozan
REAL LIFE				273
 Sarah Shankman
A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE			285
 Nancy Pickard
THE BURGLAR AND THE WHATSIT		300
 Donald E. Westlake
PUBLICITY STUNTS			307
 Sara Paretsky
THE MONSTER				324
 Bill Pronzini

1996 Bibliography and Necrology		328
 Edward D. Hoch
1996 Drood Review's
 	Editors' Choice List		341