Other authors: Frederick Irving Anderson (Contributor), Lawrence Block (Contributor), Pearl S. Buck (Contributor), James M. Cain (Contributor), Willa Cather (Contributor) — 42 more, Raymond Chandler (Contributor), James Crumley (Contributor), Brendan DuBois (Contributor), Stanley Ellin (Contributor), Harlan Ellison (Contributor), William Faulkner (Contributor), Robert L. Fish (Contributor), Tom Franklin (Contributor), Jacques Futrelle (Contributor), Susan Glaspell (Contributor), Joe Gores (Contributor), Sue Grafton (Contributor), Stephen Greenleaf (Contributor), Dashiell Hammett (Contributor), O. Henry (Contributor), Patricia Highsmith (Contributor), Tony Hillerman (Introduction), Evan Hunter (Contributor), Shirley Jackson (Contributor), Harry Kemelman (Contributor), Stephen King (Contributor), Ring Lardner (Contributor), Dennis Lehane (Contributor), John D. MacDonald (Contributor), John Ross MacDonald (Contributor), Michael Malone (Contributor), Margaret Millar (Contributor), Flannery O'Connor (Contributor), Joyce Carol Oates (Contributor), Sara Paretsky (Contributor), Melville Davisson Post (Contributor), Ellery Queen (Contributor), Ben Ray Redman (Contributor), Jack Ritchie (Contributor), Damon Runyon (Contributor), Henry Slesar (Contributor), Wilbur Daniel Steele (Contributor), John Steinbeck (Contributor), James Thurber (Contributor), Jerome Weidman (Contributor), Donald E. Westlake (Contributor), Cornell Woolrich (Contributor)

Series: The Best American Mystery Stories (20th Century), Best American (20th Century)