The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century

How does one go about culling the wealth of mystery fiction and selecting just 55 short stories from sources as diverse as Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Collier's, Esquire and The New Yorker to represent the best of a century? For editors Hillerman and Penzler, the challenge was enormous but well worth the effort, as readers will see when they dig into this definitive collection of American suspense that is truly without peer.