THE BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES 4: BK.4 - Softcover

The Best American Series
First, Best, and Best-Selling

"If you like all your characters living at the end of a story, this may not be the book for you."
— Scott Turow, guest editor

Since 1915 the Best American series has been the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of periodicals. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the very best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected — and most popular — of its kind.

The Best American Mystery Stories 2006 includes Jeffery Deaver, Andrew Klavan, Jane Haddam, Elmore Leonard, Emily Raboteau, Joyce Carol Oates, Walter Mosley, Karen E. Bender, William Harrison, C.J. Box, Ed McBain, and others.

Scott Turow, guest editor, is the author of numerous best-selling novels, including Presumed Innocent, and his latest, Ordinary Heroes,. His books have been translated into more than twenty-five languages and have sold over twenty-five million copies worldwide.

Look for the other best-selling titles in the Best American series:

The Best American Short Stories
The Best American Nonrequired Reading
The Best American Essays
The Best American Sports Writing
The Best American Travel Writing
The Best American Science and Nature Writing
The Best American Spiritual Writing
and our newest addition, The Best American Comics

Michael Connelly is the author of several bestselling titles including CHASING THE DIME, LOST LIGHT and most recently THE NARROWS. He has won many international awards, including the Edgar, and been nominated for many more. Otto Penzler is the owner of the Mysterious Bookshop in New York City and the founder of the Mysterious Press and Otto Penzler Books. He has been the series editor of THE BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES since its inception in 1997. Otto Penzler is the owner of the Mysterious Bookshop in New York City and the founder of the Mysterious Press and Otto Penzler Books. He received an Edgar Award for The Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection and was honoured by the Mystery Writers of America 1994 with the Ellery Queen Award for his contributions in the publishing field. Donald Westlake, a Mystery Writers of America grand master, has written dozens of novels during his prolific thirty-year career, including his latest thriller, The Hook. His many honours include several Edgar Awards and an Academy Award nomination.