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BENN, JAMES

Red Christmas. The Usual Santas, ed. by Peter Lovesey, Soho Crime

COLEMAN, REED FARREL

Breakage. Down & Out: The Magazine, vol. 1, no. 1, ed. by Rick Ollerman

DIRCKX, JOHN H.

Futures Off at Closing. Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, January-February

FUSILLI, JIM

Precision Thinking. Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, November-December

GASTINEAU, JOHN

A Coon Dog and Love. Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, November-December

GENEST, JENNIFER

What Guy Says No? Post Road, Summer

HINSHAW, BEN

Brazil and Back. Carolina Quarterly, Fall/Winter

HUDGENS, DALLAS

Terceira. Atlanta Noir, ed. by Tayari Jones, Akashic

KNOPF, CHRIS

A Little Carinoso. Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, March-April

LANSDALE, JOE R.

Charlie the Barber. Alive in Shape and Color, ed. by Lawrence Block, Pegasus

LAWTON, R. T.

Black Friday. Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, November-December

LEE, M. C.

Angel Face. Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, May-June

MALLORY, MICHAEL

Aramis and the Worm. Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, September-October

McCAULEY, TERRENCE

The Solitary Man. Down & Out: The Magazine, vol. 1, no. 1, ed. by Rick Ollerman

McGEE, KAREN

Something of Value. Dark City Crime and Mystery Magazine, April

McMAHAN, ALISON

The Drive-By. Busted! Arresting Stories from the Beat, ed. by Verena Rose, Harriette Sackler, and Shawn Reilly Simmons, Level Best

PARKER, ALESIA

Ma’am. Atlanta Noir, ed. by Tayari Jones, Akashic

PETRIN, JAS. R.

Money Maker. Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, May-June

PLUCK, THOMAS

Deadbeat. Down & Out: The Magazine, vol. 1, no. 1, ed. by Rick Ollerman

ROZAN, S. J.

Chin Yong-Yun Stays Home. Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, January-February

RUSS-COMBS, DOMINIC

Manglevine. Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, November-December

SOLDAN, WILLIAM R.

Houses Burn. Mystery Tribune, Spring

SOOS, TROY

Family Tradition. Mystery Weekly Magazine, February

STRONG, SARAH PEMBERTON

Callback. New Haven Noir, ed. by Amy Bloom, Akashic

TUCHER, ALBERT

Sensitivity Training. Busted! Arresting Stories from the Beat, ed. by Verena Rose, Harriette Sackler, and Shawn Reilly Simmons, Level Best

VASICEK, RENE GEORG

Vera Musilova. Bellevue Literary Review, vol. 17, no. 2

WALKER, JOSEPH S.

Awaiting the Hour. Day of the Dark: Stories of Eclipse, ed. by Kaye George, Wildside

WARSH, SYLVIA MAULTASH

The Ranchero’s Daughter. 13 Claws, ed. by Donna Carrick, Carrick

Louise Penny, guest editor, is the New York Times and Globe and Mail best-selling author of the Chief Inspector Gamache novels, most recently Glass Houses . She has won the CWA Creasey Dagger, CWC Arthur Ellis, Nero, Dilys, and Barry awards. Penny has been given the Anthony Award five times, and has won six Agathas, more than any other crime writer.

Otto Penzler, series editor, is a two-time Edgar-winning mystery editor, publisher, columnist, and owner of New York’s The Mysterious Bookshop, the oldest and largest bookstore solely dedicated to mystery fiction. He has edited more than sixty crime-fiction anthologies.

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ISSN 1094-8384 (print) ISSN 2573-3907 (e-book)

ISBN 978-0-544-94909-6 (print) ISBN 978-0-544-94922-5 (e-book)

These stories are works of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the authors’ imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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“Banana Triangle Six” by Louis Bayard. First published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. Copyright © 2017 by Louis Bayard. Reprinted by permission of Louis Bayard.

“Y Is for Yangchuan Lizard” by Andrew Bourelle. First published in D Is for Dinosaur, edited by Rhonda Parrish. Copyright © 2017 by Andrew Bourelle. Reprinted by permission of Andrew Bourelle.

“The Designee” by T. C. Boyle from The Relive Box and Other Stories by T. C. Boyle. First published in the Iowa Review. Copyright © 2017 by T. C. Boyle. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.