The Best American Mystery Stories 1999

“Keller’s Last Refuge” by Lawrence Block. First published in Playboy, March 1998. Copyright © 1998 by Lawrence Block. Reprinted by permission of Knox Burger Associates, Ltd.

“Safe” by Gary A. Braunbeck. First published in Robert Bloch’s Psychos, edited by Robert Bloch. Pocket Books. Copyright © 1998 by Gary A. Braunbeck. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Fatherhood” by Thomas H. Cook. First published in Murder for Revenge, edited by Otto Penzler, Delacorte Press. Copyright © 1998 by Thomas H. Cook. Reprinted by permission of Russell & Volkening as agent for the author.

“Wrong Time, Wrong Place” by Jeffery Deaver. First published in The best of the Best, edited by Elaine Koster and Joseph Pittman, Signet. Copyright © 1998 by Jeffery W. Deaver. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Netmail” by Brendan DuBois. First published in Playboy, May 1998. Copyright © 1998 by Brendan DuBois. Reprinted by permission of Jed Mattes. Inc., New York.

“Redneck” by Loren D. Estleman. First published as “Double Whammy” in Mary Higgins Clark Mystery Magazine, Fall 1998. Copyright © 1998 by Loren D Estleman. Reprinted by permission of Loren D. Fstleman.

“And Maybe the Horse Will Learn to Sing” by Gregory Fallis. First published in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, 1998. Copyright © 1998 by Gregory Fallis. Reprinted by permission of Gregory Fallis.

“Poachers” by Tom Franklin. First published in Texas Review, Spring 1998. Copyright © 1998 by Tom Franklin. Reprinted by permission of Texas Review.

“Hitting Rufus” by Victor Gischler. First published in Lynx Eye, Spring 1998. Copyright © 1998 by Victor Gischler. Reprinted by permission of Victor Gischler.

“Out There in the Darkness” by Ed Gorman. First published in Robert Bloch’s Psychos, edited by Robert Bloch, Pocket Books. Copyright © 1997 by Ed Gorman. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Survival” by Joseph Hansen. First published in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, October 1998. Copyright © 1998 by Joseph Hansen. Reprinted by permission of the Stuart Krichevsky Literary Agency.

“A Death on the Ho Chi Minh Trail” by David. K. Harford. First published in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, March 1998. Copyright © 1998 by David K. Harford. Reprinted by permission of David K. Harford.

“An Innocent Bystander” by Gary Krist. First published in Playboy, April 1998. Copyright © 1998 by Gary Krist. Reprinted by permission of the author and the Irene Skolnick Literary Agency.

“The Jailhouse Lawyer” by Phillip M. Margolin. First published in Legal Briefs, edited by William Bernhardt, published by Doubleday, 1998. Copyright © 1998 by Phillip M. Margolin. Reprinted by permission of Phillip M. Margolin.

“Secret, Silent” by Joyce Carol Oates. First published in Boulevard, Fall 1998. Copyright © 1998 by Ontario Review, Inc. Reprinted by permission of John Hawkins & Associates, Inc.

“In Flanders Fields” by Peter Robinson. First published in Not Safe After Dark and Other Stories, Crippen & Landru. Copyright © 1998 by Peter Robinson. Reprinted by permission of Peter Robinson.

“Dry Whiskey” by David B. Silva. First published in Cemetery Dance, vol. 8, no. 3. Copyright © 1998 by David B. Silva. Reprinted by permission of David B. Silva.

“Sacrifice” by L. L. Thrasher. First published in Murderous Intent, Summer/Fall 1998. Copyright © 1998 by Linda Thrasher Baty. Reprinted by permission of Linda Thrasher Baty.

“Bech Noir” by John Updike. First published in The New Yorker, June 8, 1998. Copyright © 1998 by John Updike. Reprinted by permission of the author.