Otto Penzler - The Best American Crime Writing 2003

“Dirty Little Secret” by Doug Most (Boston Magazine , August 2002). Copyright © 2002 by Boston Magazine . Reprinted by permission of Dan Scully, publisher of Boston Magazine .

“The Body Farm” by Maximillian Potter (GQ, June 2002). Copyright © 2002 by Condé Nast Publications. Reprinted by permission of Conde Nast Publications.

“Big Shot” by Peter Richmond (GQ, August 2002). Copyright © 2002 by Conde Nast Publications. Reprinted by permssion of Condé Nast Publication.

“The Boy Who Loved Transit” by Jeff Tietz (Harpers Magazine , May 2002). Copyright © 2002 by Jeff Tietz. Reprinted by permission of International Creative Management, Inc.

“The Accused” by Paige Williams (Atlanta Magazine , May 2002). Copyright © 2002 by Atlanta Magazine . Reprinted by permission of Rebecca Burns, editor of Atlanta Magazine .

“Mad Dogs and Lawyers” by Evan Wright (Rolling Stone , February 28, 2002). Copyright © 2002 by Rolling Stone LLC. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of Rolling Stone LLC.

“The Counterterrorist” by Lawrence Wright (The New Yorker , January 14, 2002). Copyright © 2002 by Lawrence Wright. Reprinted by permission of The Wendy Weil Agency, Inc.

THOMAS H. COOKis the author of eighteen books, including two works of true crime. His novels have been nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award, the Macavity Award, and the Dashiell Hammett Prize. The Chatham School Affair won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel in 1996. His true crime book, Blood Echoes , was nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award in 1992, and his story “Fatherhood” won the Herodotus Prize in 1998 and was included in Best American Mystery Stories of 1998, edited by Otto Penzler and Ed McBain. His works have been translated into fifteen languages.

OTTO PENZLERis the proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City. He was the founder of the Mysterious Press and created the publishing firm Otto Penzler Books. He is a recipient of an Edgar Award for The Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection and the Ellery Queen Award and a Raven by the Mystery Writers of America for his many contributions to the field. He is the series editor of The Best American Mystery Stories of the Year . His other anthologies include Murder for Love, Murder for Revenge, Murder and Obsession, The SO Greatest Mysteries of All Time , and The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century . He wrote 101 Greatest Movies of Mystery and Suspense . He lives in New York City.

JOHN BERENDTis the author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil , which spent four years on The New York Times bestseller list. He has been the editor of New York magazine and an Esquire columnist. He lives in New York.