The stories by the mystery genre's best writers, such as Tony Hillerman, Lawrence Block, P. D James, Ruth Rendell and Ray Bradbury, are compiled into an anthology of twenty-five of the year's most suspenseful stories. Contents: * Introduction: The Mystery in 1992 by Jon L. Breen * Someday I'll Plant More Walnut Trees by Lawrence Block * The Winfield Trade by Jeremiah Healy * Liar's Dice by Bill Pronzini * Long Live the Queen by Ruth Rendell * Lazy Susan by Nancy Pickard * A Hotel in Bucharest by Robert Barnard * The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown by Peter Lovesey * Secrets by June Thomson * Whatever Has To Be Done by Jan Grape * Stop, Thief! by Barbara D'Amato * While She Was Out by Edward Bryant * True Faces by Pat Cadigan * The Perplexing Puzzle of the Perfidious Pigeon Poisoner by Charlotte MacLeod * Cat Got Your Tongue by Barbara Collins and Max Allan Collins * The Last to Know by Joan Hess * The Man Who Loved Noir by Loren D. Estleman * Johnny Halloween by Norman Partridge * The Maltese Double Cross by Carole Nelson Douglas * Benny's Space by Marcia Muller * Settled Score by Sara Paretsky * The Theft of the Barking Dog by Edward D. Hoch * A Predatory Woman by Sharyn McCrumb * Wedding Bells by Michael Z. Lewin * Proxime Accessit by Reginald Hill * The Wind from Midnight by Ed Gorman