The Best American Mystery Stories 1998

The Best American Mystery Stories 1998,[1][2]a volume in The Best American Mystery Stories series, was edited by guest editor Sue Grafton 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

AuthorStorySource
David Ballard"Child Support"New Mystery
Scott Bartells"Swear Not by the Moon"Tamaqua
Mary Higgins Clark"The Man Next Door"The Plot Thickens
Merrill Joan Gerber"This Is a Voice from Your Past"Chattahoochee Review
Edward D. Hoch"The Old Spies Club"Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
Pat Jordan"Beyond Dog"Playboy
Stuart M. Kaminsky"Find Miriam"New Mystery
Janice Law"Secrets"Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine
John H. Watson"The Adventure of the Giant Rat of Sumatra"Mary Higgins Clark Mystery Magazine
John Lutz"Night Crawlers"Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
Margaret Maron"Prayer for Judgment"Shovelling Smoke
Jay McInerney"Con Doctor"Playboy
Walter Mosley"Black Dog"Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned
Joyce Carol Oates"Faithless"Kenyon Review
Peter Robinson"The Two Ladies of Rose Cottage"Malice Domestic 6
Dave Shaw"Twelve Days Out of Traction"South Dakota Review
Helen Tucker"The Power of Suggestion"Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
Donald E. Westlake"Take it Away"Mary Higgins Clark Mystery Magazine
Steve Yarbrough"The Rest of Her Life"Missouri Review

Distinguished Mystery Stories of 1998 - listed in appendix

AuthorStorySource
Geo Aggeler"The Fire"South Dakota Review
Tom Andrews"Torch Song"Hardboiled
Frederick Axtmann"Line of Sight"Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine
William Bankier"A Gift of Murder"Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
Eric Barnes"The Huts"Greensboro Review
Edward W. Blain"Driscoll Henley's Last Day"Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
Lynne Wood Block and Lawrence Block"The Burglar Who Smelled Smoke"Mary Higgins Clark Mystery Magazine
Bo Caldwell"His Moods"Story Magazine
Harlan Coben"Entrapped"Mary Higgins Clark Mystery Magazine
Stephanie Kaplan Cohen"Lady Luck"Hardboiled
Gretchen Comba"The Friction Point"Greensboro Review
Bill Crenshaw"Roadkill Poker"Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine
Jeffrey Deaver"Double Jeopardy"Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
James Defilippi"A Fog of Many Colors"New Mystery
Brendan DuBois"Trade Wars"Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
Edward Fako"Drunks"Antioch Review
Tess Gallagher"My Gun"Kenyon Review
Steve Hamilton"The Silence"Private Writings
J.A. Jance"One Good Turn"Vengeance is Hers
Suzanne Jones"Shifter"Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
Thom Jones"Tarantula"Zoetrope
William Link"The Good Samaritan"Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
Malcolm McClintock"Kelso at the Voodoo Museum"Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine
Mark Nicholas"A $5,000 Proposal"Cold Drill
Josip Novakovich"Crimson"Manoa
Joyce Carol Oates"Lover"Granta
Earl C. Pike"The Magician's Wife"Whiskey Island
Steven Saylor"The White Fawn"Classical Whodunnits
Robert Weiberg and Lois H. Gresh"The Adventure of the Parisian Gentlemen"The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures

See also

References

  1. "Best American Mystery Stories 1998".
  2. Penzler, Otto; Grafton, Sue (1998). The best American mystery stories, 1998. Internet Archive. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co.
  3. Grafton, Sue and Otto Penzler(editors), The Best American Mystery Stories 1997, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.
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