TY - BOOK AU - Hillerman,Tony AU - Penzler,Otto TI - The best American mystery stories of the century SN - 0618012672 AV - PZ1 .B44623 2000 PY - 2000/// CY - Boston PB - Houghton Mifflin Co. KW - Detective and mystery stories, American KW - Short stories, American KW - Detective and mystery stories KW - gsafd N1 - Retrieved reformation; O. Henry --; Paul's case; Willa Cather --; Problem of cell 13; Jacques Futrelle --; Blind man's buff; Frederick Irving Anderson --; Naboth's vineyard; Melville Davisson Post --; Jury of her peers; Susan Glaspell --; Gutting of Couffignal; Dashiell Hammett --; Haircut; Ring Lardner --; Blue murder; Wilbur Daniel Steele --; Perfect crime; Ben Ray Redman --; Baby in the icebox; James M. Cain --; Murder; John Steinbeck --; Sense of humor; Damon Runyan --; Ransom; Pearl S. Buck --; Red wind; Raymond Chandler --; Catbird seat; James Thurber --; Rear window; Cornell Woolrich --; Error in chemistry; William Faulkner --; Nine mile walk; Harry Kemelman --; Adventure of the president's half disme; Ellery Queen --; Homesick Buick; John D. MacDonald --; Gone girl; Ross Macdonald --; Moment of decision; Stanley Ellin --; First offense; Evan Hunter --; Couple next door; Margaret Millar --; Day of the execution; Henry Slesar --; Terrapin; Patricia Highsmith --; Possiblility of evil; Shirley Jackson --; Comforts of home; Flannery O'Connor --; Good man, bad man; Jerome Weidman --; Goodbye, Pops; Joe Gores --; Whimper of whipped dogs; Harlan Ellison --; Wager; Robert L. Fish --; Do with me what you will; Joyce Carol Oates --; Quitters, Inc.; Stephen King --; Absence of Emily; Jack Ritchie --; By the dawn's early light; Lawrence Block --; Iris; Stephen Greenleaf --; Three-Dot Po; Sara Paretsky --; Parker shotgun; Sue Grafton --; Too many crooks; Donald E. Westlake --; Hot springs; James Crumley --; Dark snow; Brendan DuBois --; Red clay; Michael Malone --; Poachers; Tom Franklin --; Running out of dog; Dennis Lehane ER -