Wyoming State Law Library

Nighttime is the perfect time for the perfect crime. #1 "New York Times" bestselling author Charlaine Harris edits and contributes an all-new story set in her Sookie Stackhouse universe--to this anthology from the Mystery Writers of America.

A collection of sixteen short works includes a new tale featuring Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs.

An anthology of nineteen tales set in various regions and historical periods includes T. Jefferson Parker's "Skinhead Central, " Alafair Burke's "Winning, " Michael Connelly's "Father's Day, " and works by Edward D. Hoch, Laurie R. King, and other notable authors.

For fans of "The Vanished Man" and "The Stone Monkey" comes this thrilling collection of Deaver's short fiction.

In the era before he created moody private investigator Matthew Scudder, burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr, sleepless spy Evan Tanner, and the amiable hit man Keller-and years before his first Edgar Award-a young writer named Lawrence Block submitted a story titled "You Can't Lose" to Manhunt magazine. It was published, and the rest is history. One Night Stands and Lost Weekends is a sterling collection of short crime fiction and suspense novelettes penned...

"In a few years of extraordinary creative energy, Dashiell Hammett invented the modern American crime novel." "The five novels that Hammett published between 1929 and 1934, collected here in one volume, have become part of modern American culture, creating archetypal characters and establishing the ground rules for a whole tradition of hardboiled writing." "Each novel is distinct in mood and structure. Red Harvest (1929), a raucous and nightmarish...