The Adventure Of The Missing Detective: And 25 of the Year's Finest Crime and Mystery Stories!
Edited by Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg
25 of the Year's Finest Crime and Mystery Stories! From traditional mystery stories with
devious doings and a plot full of clues to terse thrillers with edge-of-the-seat climaxes to the nail-biting tale of psychological suspense, no field of popular fiction can match contemporary crime
writing in diversity, excitement, cunning, or satisfaction. In this stunning collection of the year's best offerings in the genre, armchair detectives, suspense addicts, and crime solvers alike can
thrill to new stories by Edward D. Hoch, Carolyn Wheat, Jeffrey Deaver, Stuart Kaminsky, Val McDermid, Laura Lippman, Joyce Carol Oates, and Max Allen Collins, in the unique way only mystery fiction can
provide.
Jeffery Deaver's story is called "The Westphalian Ring."
