The year's twenty best American mystery stories in a collection that will delight mystery buffs and casual readers alike. This collection includes stories by Jeffery Deaver, Dennis Lehane and Robert Girardi. Previous collections have been edited by: 1997 Robert B. Parker; 1998 Sue Grafton; 1999 Ed McBain.
- ISBN10 0395939178
- ISBN13 9780395939178
- Publish Date 19 October 2000 (first published 29 October 1999)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 19 October 2011
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin
- Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)
- Edition 2000 ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 352
- Language English