The line-up: three New York Timesbestselling authors, four Edgar Award winners, and other critically acclaimed past presidents of the Private Eye Writers of America. THE DETECTIVES: the authors' most famous P.I.s. THE STORIES: the authors' personal favorites. PLUS: a special behind-the-crime-scene introduction to each author's creative process.
List of stories: Wrong Place, Wrong Time/Bill Pronzini; The Merciful Angel of Death/Lawrence Block; Eighty Million Dead/Michael Collins; Deadly Beloved/William Campbell Gault; Second Story Sunlight/John Lutz; A Poison That Leaves No Trace/Sue Grafton; Aftermath/Jeremiah Healy; The Pig Man/Les Roberts; Faking It/Parnell Hall; Laying Down To Die/Robert J Randisi; The Maltese Cat/Sara Paretsky; Natural Death,Inc./Max Allan Collins.I gave this book 4 stars instead of 5 because of the 12 stories only 4 are new. The rest are reprints. Of the reprints, there were 2 that I'd never read before; EIGHTY MILLION DEAD and DEADLY BELOVED. All the stories are excellent and the writing topnotch
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