The Best American Mystery Stories 2002 ed. James Ellroy (Houghton Mifflin, October 2002, 0-618-12494-2, $27.50, 320pp, hc, an)
Anthology of 20 mystery stories from 2001. Series editor Otto Penzler.
- ix · Foreword · Otto Penzler · fw
- xiii · Introduction · James Ellroy · in
- 1 · It Is Raining in Bejucal · John Biguenet · nv Zoetrope: All-Story Summer 2001
- 24 · Two-Bagger · Michael Connelly · nv Murderers’ Row ed. Otto Penzler, New Millennium Press, 2001
- 41 · The Fix · Thomas H. Cook · ss Murder on the Ropes ed. Otto Penzler, New Millennium Press, 2001
- 54 · Summa Mathematica · Sean Doolittle · nv Crime Spree ed. Sandy DeLuca & Trey R. Barker, December Girl Press, 2001
- 75 · Man Kills Wife, Two Dogs · Michael Downs · ss Willow Springs June 2001
- 87 · A Family Game · Brendan DuBois · nv Murderers’ Row ed. Otto Penzler, New Millennium Press, 2001
- 109 · The Blue Mirror · David Edgerley Gates · nv Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine December 2001
- 146 · Inscrutable · Joe Gores · ss The Mysterious Press Anniversary Anthology, Mysterious Press, 2001
- 159 · The Championship of Nowhere · James Grady · nv Murder on the Ropes ed. Otto Penzler, New Millennium Press, 2001
- 197 · The Cobalt Blues · Clark Howard · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine September/October 2001
- 222 · Sometimes Something Goes Wrong · Stuart M. Kaminsky · nv The Mysterious Press Anniversary Anthology, Mysterious Press, 2001
- 237 · The Mule Rustlers · Joe R. Lansdale · nv The Mysterious Press Anniversary Anthology, Mysterious Press, 2001
- 255 · Maniac Loose · Michael Malone · nv A Confederacy of Crime ed. Sarah Shankman, Signet, 2001
- 272 · Counting · Fred Melton · ss Talking River Review Summer 2001
- 288 · You Don’t Know Me · Annette Meyers · ss Flesh & Blood ed. Max Allan Collins & Jeff Gelb, Mysterious Press, 2001
- 304 · The High School Sweetheart · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Playboy January 2001
- 321 · Harlem Nocturne · Robert B. Parker · ss Murderers’ Row ed. Otto Penzler, New Millennium Press, 2001
- 328 · Midnight Emissions · F. X. Toole · nv Murder on the Ropes ed. Otto Penzler, New Millennium Press, 2001
- 361 · A Lepidopterist’s Tale · Daniel Waterman · ss Bomb Fall 2001
- 379 · The Copper Kings (HHC) · Scott Wolven · ss Plots with Guns January/February 2001
- 391 · Contributors’ Notes · [uncredited] · bg
- 403 · Other Distinguished Mystery Stories of 2001 · [uncredited] · bi
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