The Best American Mystery Stories 1998

Acknowledgments

“Child Support” by David Ballard. First published in New Mystery, Vol. V, number 2, Fall 1997. Copyright © 1997 by David Ballard. Reprinted by permission of Charles Raisch.

“Swear Not by the Moon” by Scott Bartels. First published in Tamaqua, Vol. VI, Issue II, Fall 1997 (Parkland College, Champaign, Illinois). Copyright © 1997 by Scott Bartels. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Keller on the Spot” by Lawrence Block. First published in Playboy, Nov. 1997. Copyright © 1997 by Lawrence Block. Reprinted by permission of Knox Burger Associates, Ltd.

“The Man Next Door” by Mary Higgins Clark. First published in The Plot Thickens (Pocket Books, Nov. 1997). Copyright © 1997 by Mary Higgins Clark. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“This Is a Voice from Your Past” by Merrill Joan Gerber. First published in The Chattahoochee Review, Vol. XVII, number 4, Summer 1997. Copyright © 1997 by Merrill Joan Gerber. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Old Spies Club” by Edward D. Hoch. First published in Ellery Queen‘s Mystery Magazine, May 1997. Copyright © 1997 by Edward D. Hoch. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Beyond Dog” by Pat Jordan. First published in Playboy, August 1997. Copyright © 1997 by Pat Jordan. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Find Miriam” by Stuart Kaminsky. First published in New Mystery, Volume V, number 1, Summer 1997. Copyright © 1997 by Stuart Kaminsky. Reprinted by permission of Charles Raisch.

“Secrets” by Janice Law. First published in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine,July/August 1997. Copyright © 1997 by Janice Law Trecker. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Adventure of the Giant Rat of Sumatra” by John T. Lescroart. First published in Mary Higgins Clark Mystery Magazine, Summer/Fall 1997. Copyright © 1997 by Lescroart Corporation. Reprinted by permission of Lescroart Corporation.

“Night Crawlers” by John Lutz. First published in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, April 1997. Copyright © 1997 by John Lutz. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Prayer for Judgment” by Margaret Maron. First published in Shoveling Smoke: Selected Mystery Stories by Margaret Maron (Crippen & Landru Publishers, 1997). Copyright © 1997 by Margaret Maron. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Con Doctor” by Jay Mclnerney. First published in Playboy, Jan. 1997. Copyright © 1997 by Bright Lights Big City, Inc. Reprinted by permission of International Creative Management, Inc.

“Black Dog” by Walter Mosley. First published in Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned, (W.W. Norton, 1997). Copyright © 1997 by Walter Mosley. Reprinted by permission of the author and W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.

“Faithless” by Joyce Carol Oates. First published in Kenyon Review, Winter 1997. Copyright © 1997 by The Ontario Review, Inc. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Two Ladies of Rose Cottage” by Peter Robinson. First published in Malice Domestic 6 (Pocket Books, 1997). Copyright © 1997 by Peter Robinson. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Twelve Days Out of Traction” by Dave Shaw. First published in South Dakota Review, Vol. 34, number 4, Winter 1996, published in February 1997. Copyright © 1997 by Dave Shaw. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Power of Suggestion” by Helen Tucker. First published in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, May 1997. Copyright © 1997 by Helen Tucker. Reprinted by permission of McIntosh and Otis, Inc.

“Take It Away” by Donald E. Westlake. First published in Mary Higgins Clark Mystery Magazine, Summer/Fall 1997. Copyright © 1997 by Donald E. Westlake. Reprinted by permission of Knox Burger Associates, Ltd.

“The Rest of Her Life” by Steve Yarbrough. First published in The Missouri Review, Dec. 1997, Vol. 20, number 3. Copyright © 1997 by Steve Yarbrough. Reprinted by permission of International Creative Management, Inc.