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The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century

The Best American Mystery Stories #1900-1999

Otto Penzler, Tony Hillerman with James Crumley, Melville Davisson Post, Patricia Highsmith, Ring Lardner, Margaret Millar, Harlan Ellison, Donald E. Westlake, Joe Gores, Cornell Woolrich, Sara Paretsky, Michael Malone, Susan Glaspell, John Steinbeck, Robert L. Fish, Frederick Irving Anderson, William Faulkner, Pearl S. Buck, Dashiell Hammett, Stanley Ellin, Jerome Weidman, Ellery Queen, Brendan DuBois, James M. Cain, Flannery O'Connor, Wilbur Daniel Steele, Jacques Futrelle, Stephen Greenleaf, Dennis Lehane, Sue Grafton, Willa Cather, Shirley Jackson, O. Henry, James Thurber, Henry Slesar, Tom Franklin, Lawrence Block, Ross Macdonald, Ben Ray Redman, Harry Kemelman, Stephen King, John D. MacDonald, Raymond Chandler, Damon Runyon, Evan Hunter, Jack Ritchie, Joyce Carol Oates