The Best American Mystery Stories 2001

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This is the fifth volume in this series of Best American Mystery Stones from the distinguished publishing house Houghton Mifflin, and, I don’t know, but it may well be the best yet.

There are quite a few authors here who were previously unknown to me, just as there are among those on the honor roll — the other distinguished mystery stories of 2000. Many of the genre’s more familiar names are not present in this collection, either because they failed to write short stores this past year or because some of these new voices simply produced superior work. This is, for all of us who are serious readers, whether of mystery fiction or of any fiction at all, a very good thing. It’s a comfort to know that the pipes remain full, and that the future of the story is secure.

I’ve noticed one major change since I became the series editor five years ago: That first year, there were a handful of stories published as electronic originals. The next year there were a few more. This year I probably saw 250 to 300 of them, keeping the total number of stories examined well beyond a thousand.

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