First edition
The Best American Mystery Stories 1997,[1][2] a volume in The Best American Mystery Stories series, was edited by guest editor Robert B. Parker with Otto Penzler.[3] The series editor chooses about fifty article candidates, from which the guest editor picks 20 or so for publication; the remaining runner-up articles listed in the appendix.
Mystery Stories included
| Author | Story | Source |
| Doug Allyn | "Blind Lemon" | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine |
| James Crumley | "Hot Springs" | Murder for Love |
| Jeffery Deaver | "The Weekender" | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine |
| Brendan DuBois | "The Dark Snow" | Playboy |
| Elizabeth George | "The Surprise of His Life" | Women on the Case |
| Jeremiah Healy | "Eyes That Never Meet" | Unusual Suspects |
| Melodie Johnson Howe | "Another Tented Evening" | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine |
| Pat Jordan | "The Mark" | Playboy |
| Jonathan Kellerman | "The Things We Do for Love" | Murder for Love |
| Andrew Klavan | "Lou Monahan, County Prosecutor" | Guilty as Charged |
| Elmore Leonard | "Karen Makes Out" | Murder for Love |
| Michael Malone | "Red Clay" | Murder for Love |
| Mabel Maney | "Mrs. Feeley is Quite Mad" | Out for More Blood: Tales of Malice and Retaliation by Women |
| Joyce Carol Oates | "Will You Always Love Me?" | Will You Always Love Me? And Other Stories |
| George Pelecanos | "When You're Hungry" | Unusual Suspects |
| S. J. Rozan | "Hoops" | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine |
| Allen Steele | "Doblin's Lecture" | Private Writings |
| Brad Watson | "Kindred Spirits" | Last Days of the Dog-Men |
| John Weisman | "There are Monsterim" | Unusual Suspects |
| Monica Wood | "Unlawful Contact" | Manoa |
Distinguished Mystery Stories of 1996 - listed in appendix
| Author | Story | Source |
| Jan Adkins | "Barratry" | Unusual Suspects |
| Jamie Andree | "Wishing Ball" | Fish Stories 2 |
| Jessica Auerbach | "Police Report" | Unusual Suspects |
| Nikki Baker | "Backlash" | Night Bites |
| Ron Carlson | "On Killymoon" | Quarterly West |
| William J. Caunitz | "Dying Time" | Murder for Love |
| David Corn | "My Murder" | Unusual Suspects |
| Dorothy Salisbury Davis | "Miles to Go" | Women on the Case |
| Jacqueline Freimor | "The B Rules" | Murderous Intent |
| Ed Gorman | "Famous Blue Raincoat" | Cemetery Dance |
| James Grady | "Kiss the Sky" | Unusual Suspects |
| Paul Griner | "Boxes" | Playboy |
| Rick Hautala | "Hitman" | Night Screams |
| Edward D. Hoch | "The Problem of the Enormous Owl" | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine |
| Clark Howard | "The Banzai Pipeline" | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine |
| Ronald Kelly | "Exit 85" | Cemetery Dance |
| Lawrence Starling | "Desire Lines" | Legacies: Stories |
| John Lutz | "Shock" | Unusual Suspects |
| Ed McBain | "Running from Legs" | Murder for Love |
| Marcia Muller | "The Holes in the System" | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine |
| Alice Munro | "The Love of a Good Woman" | The New Yorker |
| Robert Olmstead | "Rolling Stones" | The Midwesterner |
| Donald Olson | "The Stone House" | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine |
| Lucius Shepard | "Pizza Man" | Playboy |
| Julie Smith | "Strangers on a Plane" | Unusual Suspects |
| Donald E. Westlake | "The Burglar and the Whatsit" | Playboy |
| Carolyn Wheat | "Cruel and Unusual" | Guilty as Charged |
| Chet Williamson | "Dr. Joe" | Diagnosis Terminal' |
See also
References
- ↑ Krewson, John. ": The Best American Mystery Stories 1997". AUX. Retrieved 2018-09-12.
- ↑ "Kirkus Reviews".
- ↑ Parker, Robert B. and Otto Penzler(editors), The Best American Mystery Stories 1997, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.
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