Compellingly and compulsively readable, "Hard-bolied: An Anthology of American Crime Stories" is a page-turner no mystery lover will want to be without. Included are thirty-six superbly suspenseful stories that chronicle the evolution of this quintessenti
This is the kind of assortment that can hook a reader on short fantasy. Thirty-two good stories--some previously anthologized, some hot off the press ("Beauty and the Opera" by Suzy McKee Charnas appeared in July 1996), and a few once considered classic,
Contentsix • Summation: 1989 • essay by Gardner Dozois1 • Tiny Tango • [The Ragged World] • (1989) • novella by Judith Moffett40 • Out of Copyright • (1989) • shortstory by Charles Sheffield56 • For I Have Touched the Sky • [Kirinyag
