The Best American Mystery Stories, Volume 17 (67 page)

Big Band.
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
, January/February

 

F
RIEND
, T
IMOTHY

Dog Night.
Needle
, Fall/Winter

 

H
ALL
, P
ARNELL

Times Square Shuffle.
Crime Square
, ed. Robert J. Randisi (Vantage Point)

H
ELLER
, G
ABRIEL

Fugitive.
Inkwell Journal
, Spring

H
OFFMAN
, A
LICE

Conjure.
Shadow Show
, ed. Sam Weller and Mort Castle (William Morrow)

 

L
AW
, J
ANICE

The General.
Vengeance
, ed. Lee Child (Mulholland)

 

M
ACLEAN
, M
IKE

Just Like Maria.
Thuglit
, no. 2

M
AKSIK
, A
LEXANDER

Snake River Gorge.
Tin House
, vol. 13, no. 4

M
ORAN
, T
ERRIE
F
ARLEY

Jake Says Hello.
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
, December

 

O
AK
, B. B.

Death from a Bad Heart.
Blood Moon: Best New England Crime Stories
(Level Best)

 

P
ENNCAVAGE
, M
ICHAEL

Mistakes.
Staten Island Noir
, ed. Patricia Smith (Akashic)

P
HELAN
, T
WIST

The Fourteenth Juror.
Vengeance
, ed. Lee Child (Mulholland)

P
RUFER
, K
EVIN

Cat in a Box.
Kansas City Noir
, ed. Steve Paul (Akashic)

 

S
HANNON
, J
AMES

Shame the Devil.
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
, July

S
HEEHY
, H
UGH

Meat and Mouth.
Kenyon Review
, Summer

S
TEVENS
, B. K.

Thea's First Husband.
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
, June

 

V
AN
D
EN
B
ERG
, L
AURA

Opa-Locka.
Southern Review
, Summer

 

W
ARTHMAN
, D
AN

Pansy Place.
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
, January/February

W
HITE
, D
AVID

Runaway.
Lost Children Protectors
, ed. Thomas Pluck (CreateSpace)

About the Editors

L
ISA
S
COTTOLINE
, the editor of this volume, is the
New York Times
best-selling writer and Edgar Award–winning author of more than twenty novels, including stand-alone works like
Don't Go
and her most recent novel in the iconic Rosato & Associates crime series, Accused. Scottoline has served as president of the Mystery Writers of America. She also writes a weekly humor column, “Chick Wit,” with her daughter Francesca Serritella for the
Philadelphia Inquirer
, and these columns have been collected into a series of nonfiction books.

O
TTO
P
ENZLER
, the series editor, lives in New York and is the proprietor of The Mysterious Press bookstore.

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“Smothered and Covered” by Tom Barlow. First published in
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