The Best American Mystery Stories 2001

“Things That Make Your Heart Beat Faster” by Jennifer Anderson. First published in The Missouri Review. Copyright © 2000 by Jennifer Anderson. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Lobster Night” by Russell Banks. First published in Esquire. Copyright © 2000 by Russell Banks. Reprinted from The Angel on the Roof by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.

“Prison Food” by Michael Downs. First published in Witness. Copyright © 2000 by Michael G. Downs. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“In the Zone” by Leslie Edgerton. First published in High Plains Literary Review. Copyright © 2000 by Leslie Edgerton. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Paperhanger” by William Gay. First published in Harper’s Magazine. Copyright © 2000 by William Gay. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“A Book of Kells” by Jeremiah Healy. First published in Mary Higgins Clark Mystery. Copyright © 2000 by Jeremiah Healy. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Erie’s Last Day” by Steve Hockensmith. First published in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine. Copyright © 2000 by Steve Hockensmith. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Under Suspicion” by Clark Howard. First published in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. Copyright © 2000 by Clark Howard. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Her Hollywood” by Michael Hyde. First published in Alaska Quarterly Review. Copyright © 2000 by Michael Hyde. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Family” by Dan Leone. First published in Literal Latte. Copyright © 2000 by Dan Leone. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Blood Sport” by Thomas Lynch. First published in Witness. Copyright © 2000 by Thomas Lynch. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Carnie” by David Means. First published in Witness. Copyright © 2000 by David Means. Reprinted by permission of Georges Borchardt, Inc.

“Tides” by Kent Nelson. First published in The Georgia Review. Copyright © 2000 by Kent Nelson. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Girl With the Blackened Eye” by Joyce Carol Oates. First published in Witness. Copyright © 2000 by The Ontario Review, Inc. Reprinted by permission of The Ontario Review, Inc.

“Easy Street” by T. Jefferson Parker. First published in Easy Street, by T. Jefferson Parker, ASAP Press. Copyright © 2000 by T. Jefferson Parker. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Big Bite” by Bill Pronzini. First published in The Shamus Game, edited by Robert J. Randisi, Signet. Copyright © 2000 by the Pronzini-Muller Family trust. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Missing in Action” by Peter Robinson. First published in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. Copyright © 2000 by Peter Robinson. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Face-Lift” by Roxana Robinson. First published in The Atlantic Monthly. Copyright © 2000 by Roxana Robinson. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Big Ranch” by John Salter. First published in Third Coast. Copyright © 2000 by Nathan Walpow. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Push Comes to Shove” by Nathan Walpow. First published in A Deadly Dozen: Tales of Murder from Los Angeles, edited by Susan B. Casmier, Aljean Harmetz, and Cynthia Lawrence, Uglytown. Copyright © 2000 by Nathan Walpow. Reprinted by permission of the author.